Word: This meals truck by no means turned operational.
Only a day after Nationwide Cheese Lover’s Day we study that perhaps, maybe, probably there will likely be a brand new grilled cheese truck hitting the streets of Los Angeles. All of it relies upon, like most companies, on financing.
Nearly on daily basis we learn within the newspapers how troublesome it’s for companies to get conventional loans from banks.
Meltdown And so on. is getting inventive with their financing by utilizing the gang funding portal Kickstarter.com in an try to lift $25,000 and get Meltdown And so on. operational. The concept behind KickStarter is easy, a bunch of individuals discover a challenge that they like and pledge funding in greenback increments that they’re snug with. To this point over 20 backers have pledged quantities as small as $10 and as a lot as $500 to again Meltdown And so on. Pledges are taken solely as soon as the purpose of $25,000 is reached.
In return for the contributions Meltdown And so on. proprietor Ryan Afromsky returns the favor by offering low cost reward playing cards to Meltdown And so on., t-shirts, copies of his kids’s e-book “I Have A Restaurant”, and even your title placed on his truck (with a $10,000 or extra funding).
In 2007 Ryan launched the quck serve restaurant model of Meltdown And so on. with a location in Culver Metropolis. His numerous kinds of grilled cheese sandwiches, soups and dessert sandwiches had been a success in the neighborhood! He had followers all through Southern California and was featured in lots of newspapers, magazines and broadcast media.
Issues had been going nice till early 2009 when the economic system turned bitter and Meltdown And so on closed their doorways.
Now two years later there’s nonetheless demand for Meltdown And so on.’s meals, and they’re trying a comeback with the kind of creativity that made their authentic idea such a giant hit.
Checkout meltDOWN And so on.’s Kickstarter web page at http://www.kickstarter.com/initiatives/meltdownetc/. We’ll be following the progress as properly and want Ryan and his staff nice success! Kudos for creativity!
meltDOWN and many others. – Los Angeles, CA
http://www.meltdownetc.com
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