Starting Your Own Shaved Ice Business

If I were to tell you that you could start a businessA very important fact to note is that there is a very
that has potential to give you a 1,500% profit fromlarge difference between snow cone stands and
the money that you put into it, would you believeshaved ice stands. If you suggest to a shaved iced
me? If I were in your shoes, I absolutelyvendor that he is nothing but a snow cone vendor,
wouldn’t, but I am in my shoes and I knowthere’s a very good chance that he will be
that such a thing exists. Of course, when I let youhighly offended. Snow cones do not have the same
know that this business is a shaved ice business, youability to hold in the syrup flavors as shaved ice does.
still might be resistant to the belief. Here are theThe reason being that shaved ice can only be
facts: the cost to produce one 8 ounce shaved iceproduced with a quality shaver made specifically to
serving is only about 16 cents. The average cost toproduce a fine, powdery snow that will evenly hold
the consumer is $3.00. This is where the 1,500%any combination of delicious syrup flavors.
profit comes into play.