My first Charity cook planning

I'm getting my Shirley the end of this month and have my first Charity cook scheduled for a week later. I'm going to be selling sandwiches on a large parade route. My goal is to sell 300 plates at $5 each. That will put us at $1500 in sales and after my goal of $500 spent on meat and supplies will net the charity $1,000. (well actually the meat is being paid for by a sponsor so the charity will get everything but I want to make sure we are getting a good ROI on the sponsor's investment)



My Plan is to sell sandwiches only, no sides. Handed out wrapped in a piece of butcher paper to keep it simple.


Menu: All Items 5$
Pulled pork Sandwich - 12 butts?
Pulled Chicken Sandwich - 40lbs of boneless/skinless thighs?
Smoked Sausage Dog -40lb of sausage?
2 Drinks - drinks will be donated by Coca-Cola or Pepsi




ANY advice is helpful. I've never cooked for money and I've never cooked more than 5 butts at once (that was on an xl green egg)

ButtBurner said:

just make sure your permits are in order and you are legal is all I have...

whenever we sell to the public the law wants to know about it

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Got that part covered! All permits are in place! Location is approved and they said have fun!

Do my amounts of meat look right to you?

Looking at food prices. I may be better off dropping the sausage and just doing more pork/chicken. Much better ROI. Maybe 15 butts and 80lbs boneless thighs. That would give me 200lbs of raw and should net me over 100lbs of cooked. That'll put me around $250 on the actual meat and I can probably get the buns and sauce donated.

cpw said:

If you want to make it simple, get the paper boats from Sam's. No wrapping involved.

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That's a good point. I'll do that. Just leave napkins on a table with sauce? At something like this I may just give them the sandwich and let them figure it out. My average customer will be three sheets to the wind.