$8K in a Weekend From a Gutted Home Depot Cart

Marc Hyman is a 66-year-old California lawyer who doesn’t drink coffee. He sells it anyway 👀

He gutted a $600 Husky tool cart from Home Depot, bolted in a nitro tap system, and serves iced coffee at festivals, car shows, and car washes.

The whole setup ran under $3,000. His best 2-day event cleared $8,000 net profit 🤑

The economics are lopsided in his favor…

• ~$3 to make each cup
• Sells for $8 to $8.50
• 30 seconds to pour, no employees

After 9am, most buyers just want something cold and sweet, he explains – so the coffee itself is almost beside the point 👇

The quality of the underlying coffee barely matters to them. What matters is speed, temperature, and price.

He even out-earned a $150,000 coffee truck parked next to him in 100-degree desert heat 🔥

A beginner won’t hit $8K – that’s his outlier. But even a small event with 80 buyers nets around $400 in an afternoon.

The same cheap-cart model works for lemonade, kettle corn, or nitro matcha. Build the cart, call three event organizers, and show up where the crowd already is 😎

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