Hi,
I saw this once at our high school craft fair and it appealed to me because it was a somewhat nutritious option and it was easy. They served an apple that was cored and sliced with either caramel sauce or cream cheese fruit dip. They used those hand-held corer/slicers and it seemed to go pretty quickly.
Good luck,
Linda
Can you sell fry food such as Funnel Cakes? Very few people sell funnel cakes but if you can get a small electric shallow fryer, funnel cakes have a 84% profit margin compared to nachos at 64%. We tried funnel cakes last year at our fund raising events and we sold about 250 cakes during an 8 hour event and we made almost $500 profit selling them at $2.50 each.
The most expensive investment is the fryer, we bought the FW-9 shallow fryer from Gold Medal model 8051D at a website called Jarco Online for $646.19.
This fryer was also available in 208/230V which is a lot faster but if we were going to be moving this fryer to different locations is not easy to get 230V so we bought the one above that works at 120V. They also sell gas fryers for locations where electricity is not available but they are a lot more expensive.
We usually have fund raising events once a week during the summer and with funnel cakes we paid for the equipment in less than 2 events and it has been pure profit afterwards.
To make funnel cakes you need the fryer, the mold rings, a square skimmer and a funnel cake pitcher. All these accessories you can find at the above website for under $55. They also sell pre-made funnel cake mix that you only add water.
BBQ beef sandwiches worked well for us. We also had hot dogs for the children who wouldn't eat bbq beef. If you talk to the school cafeteria ladies, you can get the beef already cooked and ready to heat through their source. Buns too. Hot dogs are pretty easy to get donated from local meat markets, at least they are here. We got the beef and buns at cost. We tossed a #2 scoop of baked beans (also from our cafeteria sources), put a cup of soda with it and charged $5.00 for adults and 3.00 for children. The really cool thing is everything could be heated in crock pots or in the cafeteria warmer. We went all out and paid two cafeteria ladies to come help serve, and that entitled us to use the entire kitchen and facilities. Set up, service, and clean up went fast and efficiently.
During family fun nights we have a local Italian restaurant bring in their own staff and they serve spaghetti, bread, salad, and drinks. An entire meal for $3.50 adults and $2.50 for children. That's our cost. We sold the meal tickets for $5.00 per adult and $3.00 for children. For dessert, we had big cans of pudding, cookie crumbs and gummie worms. We put the pudding in cups and let the kids pick out the worms they wanted, sprinkled on the cookie crumbs and sold it for $1.50. It was a huge hit.
Also, one year we cooked up Brats which were popular with everyone. We sold cookies and had sprinkles, mini chocolate chips, icing, etc., and kids and adults could decorate their own cookie before they ate it. All the cookies and extras were donated, so we made $1.25 per cookie.
