Respondent No _____

FOOD CART VENDORS

QUESTIONNAIRE
Area _________________

Foodcart Operations
1. What street food sold? Why chose that street food items?
2. How many food items sold?
3. How much per food item (selling price vs cost)? Why price that way?

4. How much is the profit/day (take-home)?

5. How much is total sales?
6. How many selling days? Why chose those days?
7. What time start and length of selling hours?
8. How many are in charge of selling?
9. Location(s) for selling (where usually stay at what time), why chose that location?
10. Where commissary location?
11. How many food carts owned?
12. Where park food cart?

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Buying of Inventories

what buy?

how often buy

inventories?

Preparation of Street food

how much budget

for inventories?

where buy?

what time
of day buy?

where initial
capital came from?

1. How many hours of food preparation?

2. What are the preparation process?
3. What are the ingredients for preparation and making of sauces?
4. How many people prepares?
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For Storing/Warehousing Inventories
1. What do with unsold inventories?

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End-consumer Markets
1. What type of buyers?
2. gender
3. majority of buyers
4. What time do they buy?
5. frequent buyers (suki)

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Entrepreneur Background
1. name, age, gender
2. Where live?
3. How many family members?
4. Do other family members work?
5. How much income?
6. Other enterprise aside from selling street food
7. How long been selling street food?
8. What other enterprise tried?
9. reason(s) for dropping previous enterprise
10. for cart - (made own, buy, rent, rent to own, etc.)
11. existing loan use for operations
12. participated in local government programs for entrepreneurs (if any)
13. Do pay parasitic cost (if any)? How much?

Street Food Business

(Interviews and Observations)
1. types of street-food sold
2. no. of vendors selling which types
3. identify top 5 saleable types/kinds
4. Rolling vs Standee vs Footloose
5. where do the food carts make their presence felt

Additional Stories

Foodcart Operations for Franchised vendors

1. what type of street food do you sell?
2. how many food items/stick
3. how much per stick (selling price, cost)
4. how much is the profit/day
5. how many selling days
6. time start and length of selling hours
7. how many are in charge of selling
8. location(s) for selling
9. commissary location
10.where park food cart
For Inventories
what time receive inventories
Preparation of Street food
how many hours of food preparation
what are the preparation process
ingredients for preparation and making of sauces
how many people prepares
For Storing/Warehousing Inventories
what do with unsold inventories

End-consumer Markets
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

what type of buyers

gender
majority of buyers
what time do they buy
do you have suki(s)

Entrepreneur Background
1. where live
2. how many family members
3. do other family members work
4. how much income
5. other enterprise aside from selling street food
6. how long been selling street food
7. what other enterprise tried
8. reason(s) for dropping previous enterprise
9. for cart - made own, buy, rent (rent to own)
10.do you have parasitic cost (lagay)

GUIDE QUESTIONS
SELECTED FRANCHISORS OF FOOD CARTS
Franchising
franchising fee
inclusions (e.g., food cart, equipment, franchise contract, service crew
uniform, utensils)
Is there any royalty fees
Franchising System
(sourcing-storage-distribution)
how do sourcing
warehousing of inventories
how do distribution for franchisees
pay back period, ROI
how many franchisee
when started franchising
contract
return on investment
franchisee qualification

GUIDE QUESTIONS
SELECTED FRANCHISORS OF FOOD CARTS
C8 Best Franchising Corp
Franchising
franchising fee
inclusions (e.g., food cart, equipment, franchise contract, service crew
uniform, utensils)
Is there any royalty fees
Franchising System
(sourcing-storage-distribution)
how do sourcing
warehousing of inventories
how do distribution for franchisees
pay back period, ROI
how many franchisee
when started franchising
contract
return on investment
franchisee qualification