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Ok me and a buddy had this great idea (or at least so we think)
of making a floating kitchen out of an old houseboat. We would
float around busy areas and sell burger, hotdogs, and sandwiches,
sides to be chips and soda (maybe beer down the road if it is
possible.) My question is would anyone actually buy food off of
a boat like this? It would have a pick up window or a drive threw
type setup and a delivery system with a smaller boat. I think it
would be great with spring break like places. Any ideas or
critiques welcome. Please let me know what you think!

There have been a couple of houseboat/burger joints plying
the Holiday Isle Sandbar in the Florida Keys. On weekends
there can be a couple thousand partying boaters anchored
up on the sandbar. Drunkenness and partial nudity abounds
(lots of topless babes). The burger boats I've seen seem to
do plenty of business but they were ill-conceived in that they
had these large and VERY NOISY construction site generators
running, I suppose to generate electricity to cool the kitchen,
etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsDg1muzYFE

Lot's of people considered the burger boat an eyesore and
an earsore and stayed far, far away.

If you decide try a burger boat do be sure to have a quiet
inboard generator. And, don't blare your music so loud that
it drowns out everybody else's. And do be aware of liability
issues as there will be drunks stumbling around and if they
should happen to hurt themselves and if they can claim it
was due to some dangerous condition on your boat then
you will be sued. So, don't let anybody aboard. Like Skippy
said, a couple service windows like a drive thru window for
orders and pick-ups would reduce liability.

And, you might have to have a business license in the
communities where you ply your trade. Might need health
inspections like other food establishments, too.

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Sir Gregory