Time to see if the Apple Dumpling Gang can continue their madcap caper! The recap starts with the type of introduction of each team that we would have liked to have had last week. The Apple Dumpling Gang was allowed to use their proceeds from last week to rent another truck to use.
It's raining/snowing in Flagstaff. I didn't even know it snowed there! First challenge is simple, who can sell the most by the end of the first day. The soul food truck is addressing the weather by making soup. The Waffle Boys are sticking Belgian chocolate into the middle of their waffle. WANT. RIGHT. NOW. The Apple Dumpling Gang is sticking close to them hoping that being different enough will get people to buy from them also, rather than wanting people to come of them instead of the Waffle Boys. The Burger Boys start doing BOGOs, never a good sign.
The winner of today's challenge gets to start selling an hour early tomorrow. That won't help the Waffle Boys if today is Saturday, as it appears to be, because they'll be in church, right? The Waffle Boys win, so how will that work out? They leave at 9 AM while everyone else leaves at 10. They all have to get to Sedona, and the Waffle Boys decide to shop and start mixing before their leave so they're ready to go as soon as they get to Sedona. I guess it's not Sunday after all. Looks like the one thing they forgot to do was get a place to park, but they do find a spot at the same place as 4 other trucks. Well, this is where the fact that they're ready to go right away helps them.
The Spice Girls are playing to their audience by putting a vegan dish on the menu, and their customer base seems to appreciate it. One of them has her kids visit...I guess they're local? They didn't mention that, and they're not talking about being able to get a ton of friends to visit. The New Yorkers don't seem to have much of a market here, but they decide against moving over to the store where everyone else is. The Spice Girls' vegan curry seems an even better financial decision as the Apple Dumpling Gang and Burger Boys are losing sales for not having any vegetarian options. The trucks have one more hour until it's time to stop for the night, but they have to have a full truck of ingredients by the time they leave. The Waffle Boys shopped well enough this morning that they don't have to stop selling to shop.
Truck Stop Challenge: The teams have to sell rabbit-rattlesnake sausage dishes, and at the end of the challenge they have to pay $100 for the sausage. However much they sell, Tyler will double it. The Waffle Boys are making a sausage benedict that I also WANT. RIGHT. NOW. They've skinned rabbits before and are able to describe both the taste and the texture of rattlesnake...clearly they know their ingredients well. The Burger Boys mix their sausage meat into their burgers, and the Apple Dumpling Gang mixes theirs into egg roll fillings. The Spice Girls have made chili. The Apple Dumpling Gang and the Waffle Boys are cooking WAY too slow, though, and they are the last to leave. The Apple Dumpling Gang ends up with only 20 bucks after paying for their sausage, and the Waffle Boys have to hand over 10 bucks of their own money, which will then become 20. The Waffle Boys should be okay after their previous days at least, but the Apple Dumpling Gang is in trouble.
They have a few more hours to sell, which means finding a spot again. The Burger Boys added a vegetarian option, and people are ordering it. This time the New Yorkers do move halfway through when they see the scene is dead. The soul food family parks outside a tourist info spot, good call there. The Waffle Boys are getting good sales, but one of them needs to learn that there's no crying in food trucks!! My money at this point is on the Apple Dumpling Gang or the New Yorkers going home. The Waffle Boys are nervous because of the lack of excitement over their sausage, but they sold out of dough at the end of the night, so they can't be that bad off.
Judgment Day. Ice T could not be reached for comment. Next trip is to Santa Fe, but we still have to see who is making the trip. Spice Girls win on their home turf, not a surprise. Waffle Boys came in second, and the Spice Girls are lucky that the boys did so badly in the cooking challenge. Tyler points out that this is the second week in a row that the boys haven't done well in the cooking challenge. I was right, bottom two are the Apple Dumpling Gang and the New Yorkers. Fifteen dollars decides it in favor of the Apple Dumpling Gang, and their caper continues.
Join us next time to see if the Waffle Boys can up their game in the challenges.
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