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re: Going to Tony's is like a damn chore
Posted on 7/19/11 at 8:20 am to tiger94gop
Posted on 7/19/11 at 8:20 am to tiger94gop
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Most of you people fail to realize a big factor in opening a market in SBR. The reason seafood places fail in SBR is because middle class white people eat raw seafood seasonally. Lent and a little past that. Crabs have not been plentiful enough in the last few years to support a poor crawfish season unless you ship them out of state. So Crawfish is your main driver, other seafood are only a small portion an this areas market sales.
I can also drive down to my camp and buy shrimp straight off the boat for $2 a pound or pay $6+ at a market. I don't eat crabs but it's pretty easy to catch more than you can eat with a string and chicken neck.
Posted on 7/19/11 at 9:19 am to yellowfin
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Most of you people fail to realize a big factor in opening a market in SBR. The reason seafood places fail in SBR is because middle class white people eat raw seafood seasonally. Lent and a little past that. Crabs have not been plentiful enough in the last few years to support a poor crawfish season unless you ship them out of state. So Crawfish is your main driver, other seafood are only a small portion an this areas market sales.
I can also drive down to my camp and buy shrimp straight off the boat for $2 a pound or pay $6+ at a market. I don't eat crabs but it's pretty easy to catch more than you can eat with a string and chicken neck.
This is if someone has a camp and is making a trip to their camp anyway.
I used to get this complaint all the time at my seafood market. Why can I get shrimp/crabs so much cheaper at the docks? I even had people look at my prices, get mad, and say something like "you are ripping people off with those prices. I can get them in Dulac/Grand Isle/etc for $2/lb." I tried to explain to some of the customers (the ones who would listen and not storm out of my place all pissed off) that there are several factors why it's higher. For one, transportation costs are high. You can't expect someone to deliver to you 100lbs of fresh shrimp (and fresh shrimp only lasts 2-3days max quality wise to be able to sell them retail so you can't buy large quantities to save money) a day for the dock cost. Someone has to pick it up and deliver to you. Fuel is high and they have to make money. Also, shrimp is not a huge volume seller in markets. Most customers buy 1-5lbs at a time. In a day you may be lucky to sell 100lbs of fresh or thawed out shrimp. You can not support your business on say $1.00/lb or less profits. Rent is high and $100 a day profits is not going to pay your rent,electricity,insurance,labor, etc. So that shrimp started out at $2.00/lb, but the guy has to deliver and charges $3.00-$3.50/lb. You have to mark it up from there and still pay your bills. If you mark it up at $5.00/lb that's still only $1.50/lb profit you are making. That's still not a ton of money.
With crabs, you have to mark it up a lot to just break even. Crabs die so easy and you end up having a lot of waste with crabs. Most markets don't make money off of crabs. It's just something to bring in customers during the off season for crawfish. Most of these markets only make money during crawfish season.
Another question I used to pose to some customers was "yea you can pick it up in Dulac, but how much gas does it cost you to get there?". Some people think they are saving money to drive 4-6 hours in a day to buy 20lbs or more of shrimp. Add in that gas cost of $50-$100 or more and you aren't saving anything and you are costing yourself a day's trip to drive down there.
This post was edited on 7/19/11 at 9:23 am
Posted on 7/19/11 at 12:09 pm to yellowfin
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catch more than you can eat with a string and chicken neck.
I used to love doing this as a little girl.
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