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How a LA Tech forestry student created the Drive-Thru Daiquiri Stand
Posted on 7/8/19 at 8:01 am
Posted on 7/8/19 at 8:01 am
Fun read from the Daily Beast: Brain Freeze: The Birth of Louisiana’s Drive-Thru Daiquiri Stand The amazing story of how the drive-up Daiquiri stand was created and became a hallmark of Louisiana.
I liked this part:
I liked this part:
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Ervin’s “Daiquiri Factory” opened with a large backlit plastic sign that read “Drive-Thur”—it was delivered with the typo, but Ervin was eager to open and didn’t have time to send it back. (“Anyway, it was like six months before anyone said anything,” he said.)
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Ervin went on to open four Daiquiri Factories—three in Lafayette and one in nearby Opelousas. All were cash factories. “It was just crazy money for someone who had never made more than $400 a week in the oilfields.” Ervin said. “I went from $400 to $100,000 a week—and that was 1982 money.”
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Posted on 7/8/19 at 8:05 am to Twenty 49
You think I’m 1982 he had truck nuts?
Cause that oilfield baw making $100,000 a week, definitely had a crazy expensive large vehicle
Cause that oilfield baw making $100,000 a week, definitely had a crazy expensive large vehicle
Posted on 7/8/19 at 8:15 am to Twenty 49
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All were cash factories.
I wonder how many millions the people who started New Orleans Original Daiquiries are worth now? They spread to locations in other states and down in Mexico.
Posted on 7/8/19 at 8:49 am to notiger1997
I went to high school with the owners son. They are worth a lot of money. I remember MTV spring break used to film at one of their locations in Cancun. Good times.
Posted on 7/8/19 at 9:07 am to Fat and Happy
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You think I’m 1982 he had truck nuts?
Cause that oilfield baw making $100,000 a week, definitely had a crazy expensive large vehicle
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Four weeks after he opened, he paid cash for an El Camino to help haul ingredients to his stand.
Posted on 7/8/19 at 9:14 am to notiger1997
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I wonder how many millions the people who started New Orleans Original Daiquiries are worth now? They spread to locations in other states and down in Mexico.
Funny you mention that. Not sure if they are the original owners or if they own all of them but my son had class with the current owner's son at Madisonville Jr High.
My son said they were rich but the kid didn't brag about it. But he also knew that the kid's dad had a yellow Ferrari.
This post was edited on 7/8/19 at 9:15 am
Posted on 7/8/19 at 9:23 am to Twenty 49
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The college was in a dry parish, so he had to travel down the road to Wilmart, a store just over the line in a wet parish, for supplies.
This was a weekend routine for my group for years, Wilmart was the shite
Posted on 7/8/19 at 9:47 am to Twenty 49
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Ervin
TYFYS
Posted on 7/8/19 at 9:54 am to Brazos
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one of their locations in Cancun.
I think that was NO Original Daiquiris/Fat Tuesday..
Posted on 7/8/19 at 9:57 am to notiger1997
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I wonder how many millions the people who started New Orleans Original Daiquiries are worth now? They spread to locations in other states and down in Mexico.
A buddy of mine that worked for NOOD in Hammond, the first store, started working for their corporate head quarters via Fat Tuesday. He lived in Cozumel, and is worth a few bucks... Married a local Cozumel girl who was fine as frick...
This post was edited on 7/8/19 at 10:16 am
Posted on 7/8/19 at 10:01 am to Brazos
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I went to high school with the owners son. They are worth a lot of money. I remember MTV spring break used to film at one of their locations in Cancun. Good times.
I guess they have more than one son. I know they live in a big arse house on the Tchefuncte right der by the 22 Bridge in Madisonville. 
Posted on 7/8/19 at 10:11 am to mikelbr
Totally different guy from the owner of Fat Tuesday/NOOD. I worked there, for a bunch of years in the 90's. Always thought it was New Orleans Original who came up with the drive thru though.
Posted on 7/8/19 at 10:13 am to Hangover Haven
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Married a local Cozumel girl who was fine as frick...
Well, we’re waiting
Posted on 7/8/19 at 10:14 am to Tshiz
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Married a local Cozumel girl who was fine as frick...
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Well, we’re waiting
of all of the fine Latin womenz to choose from and he went Mezzcan? they probably age the worst of all of them
ETA: and he still has to put up with that temper
This post was edited on 7/8/19 at 10:19 am
Posted on 7/8/19 at 10:55 am to 777Tiger
I worked for David back in the mid '80's on the Strip in Lafayette. We had lots of good times in that bar.
Posted on 7/8/19 at 10:58 am to Emmitt Fitzhume
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I worked for David back in the mid '80's on the Strip in Lafayette. We had lots of good times in that bar.
I probably had a drink or two with him, was good friends with the owner and the first manager of Andy Jack's, made many circuits around that strip
Posted on 7/8/19 at 11:16 am to Twenty 49
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We’re talking hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash,” he said. Four weeks after he opened, he paid cash for an El Camino to help haul ingredients to his stand.
Like a boss!
Posted on 7/8/19 at 11:27 am to mikelbr
He has two sons.
Posted on 7/8/19 at 11:28 am to Twenty 49
I've actually worked in a drive thru daiquiri shop. The owner paid cash for all the materials, took only cash as payment, and paid us cash.
He made over 5000 a week cash most weeks.
He made over 5000 a week cash most weeks.
Posted on 7/8/19 at 11:42 am to Twenty 49
The first drive thru daquiri stands in La in 1982?
That's bullshite. There were two open in Natchitoches in 1979, right next to each other. They had order takers that would work the long lines.
They were across the street from the Walmart (which was nothing more than a dollar store then). We'd hang out in the Walmart parking lot until the cops would run us off, everyone with a white styrofoam cup.
That's bullshite. There were two open in Natchitoches in 1979, right next to each other. They had order takers that would work the long lines.
They were across the street from the Walmart (which was nothing more than a dollar store then). We'd hang out in the Walmart parking lot until the cops would run us off, everyone with a white styrofoam cup.
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