$20k/month (easy) Selling Illegal Street Cocktails

The Nutcracker is a fruity, frozen, alcoholic concoction responsible for $20k/month in profit (easy) from illegal operations for one witty hustler.

Meet the hustler in question, 35-year-old Amseshem Foluké, now attempting to take his operation fully legal.

Read his entire story here.

Selling these drinks, as it turns out, isn’t that much different from running a startup.

Here’s a bit of background as to how nutcrackers rose to popularity:

“It was invented sometime around 1993 by José Chu, a restaurant manager at an uptown Chino-Latino restaurant.

With the help of a local drug dealer named Juice, Chu concocted what GrubStreet called “a multilayered sensation, with the tart, tooth-dissolving sweetness of Jolly Ranchers and the deep, viscous finish of cough syrup.”

The name, “nutcracker,” was derived from an NYC Ballet commercial.

Dominican-American entrepreneurs — hairdressers, promoters, and ex-felons — soon saw a business opportunity and began to sell nutcrackers on the streets of Washington Heights for $10 a bottle.

The drink became an underground sensation, and its early sellers were soon minting up to $1k per day peddling them at bodegas, barbershops, parades, and busy intersections.”

“As the nutcracker market grew on the streets of NYC, the state passed the so-called “nutcracker bill,” promising to crack down on those who sold the drinks. Vendors were issued tickets ranging from $250 to $500 and were occasionally booked in jail for a night.

Foluké got booked a few times himself — though he says the police generally let him be.”

$20k a month

Here’s how Foluké got to the big bucks.

“He’d start his day by loading up on $500 of Hennessey and Patron at the Liquor & Wine Warehouse in the Bronx. Then, it was on to Walmart, to buy Tampico and other juices, before picking up the bottles that a friend has slapped pre-made labels on.

Back at home, he’d concoct his mix and freeze 300-400 bottles overnight.

During the lucrative summer months, he’d repeat this process daily, sometimes shooting through a weekend with only a few hours of sleep.”

“In a month with all sun and no rain, I was clearing $20k a month easy,” he says. One big festival alone could net him as much as $7k in a weekend.”

Last summer, he showed up to a park concert with 8 friends — who he calls his “Shaba Gang” — only to find 10 other nutcracker sellers already working the entry line.

>> Go see what Foluké did to entirely bypass the entry like nutcracker sellers and and selling $600 worth of drinks in 20 minutes <<

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