Hello out there...!

My boyfriend and I are REALLY fed up with our jobs (have been for quite a while!) and were were wondering about the mobile catering business. We both have a bit of money saved up and have been thinking about driveable catering units (not trailers) , but, we still have a few questions to ask.

Would it be better to run a burger bar from a lay by on a motorway or from an industrial estate. Presumably you would have to get permission from whoever owns the land of the ind. est. but what about a lay by? Where would we go to ask permission and is there any way of checking that the lay by isn't already taken (apart from driving past it every day..) If we see a suitable lay by is there any way of kind of 'reserving' it to stop people moving in on it or is it just a first come first served basis?

How much (an estimate) is the road tax for a drivable burger bar (a box van with a serving hatch)?

Can you really make substantial money from selling burgers and hot dogs?! (and sandwiches, jacket potatoes and anything else we can think of, we'd like to have a healthy variety too!)

I have looked everywhere on the internet for information on this subject and have found some but it seems that one piece of information from one site will usuallly clash with another, so, if anyone has any first hand information and would like to share their knowledge with us we would be eternally gratefull !!

Any other info you can give us would also be FANTASTIC!!

Thank you very much!!

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