You run a legal cart that sells one egg thing and one sweet thing to the night shift going home. Clients pay a posted rate, ticket, dues, or commission.
You get paid to a legal cart that sells one egg thing and one sweet thing to the night shift going home. Hours others refuse. Coffee optional. A normal week is making or serving, photographing the work honestly, and a booking or preorder habit. Write the offer in one sentence a stranger would understand. Price for your hours.
A used cart plus a temporary food permit. USDA / state cottage-food and peddler maps: the permit is often tens to a few hundred; the cart is the rest.
Each required material has a matching shop listing — photo, price, and a way to add it to the cart.
Cart
Folding cart
A folding hand cart for laundry bags, crates, and market loads. Wheels and a bungee — not a van.
Cooler
A hard cooler for market days and short hops. Ice-ready, drain plug, not a freezer van.
Permit
Permit filing help
A checklist, forms, and a first-period filing handoff for the permit the path names. Help getting to the counter — not the government permit itself.
Public examples matched to this path by what they actually publish — not endorsements, and not a claim they run this exact shop. Handles change. Verify before you write to anyone.
No closely matched public example yet. Treat any lead you find as something to verify, not a directory listing.
Mira Chen left salaried work and now coaches this craft. Book a slot for a tailored plan, a starter kit list, and follow-up support.
Ghost Kitchen of One
Cook and sell a single cuisine from a licensed shared kitchen
Ghost Kitchen of One
Cook and sell a single cuisine from a licensed shared kitchen
You cook and sell a single cuisine from a licensed shared kitchen under cottage-food, shared-kitchen, or pop-up rules. Customers pay per item, preorder, stall, or a small catering account — not a full restaurant.
Minimum initial capital Minimum initial capital $2,000
Late-Night Rice
Cook and sell the shift-worker meal
Late-Night Rice
Cook and sell the shift-worker meal
You cook and sell the shift-worker meal under cottage-food, shared-kitchen, or pop-up rules. Customers pay per item, preorder, stall, or a small catering account — not a full restaurant.
Minimum initial capital Minimum initial capital $400
Coffee Cart at the Studio
Cook and sell one origin, one milk, no 17-syrup circus
Coffee Cart at the Studio
Cook and sell one origin, one milk, no 17-syrup circus
You cook and sell one origin, one milk, no 17-syrup circus under cottage-food, shared-kitchen, or pop-up rules. Customers pay per item, preorder, stall, or a small catering account — not a full restaurant.
Minimum initial capital Minimum initial capital $2,000
