632: From Weekend Side Hustle to $300k/year Business

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

How can a food tour side hustle turn into a $300k a year business? Chris Andrews from Bienville Bites Food Tour started his side hustle back in 2017, where he gave food tours on the weekends in Mobile, Alabama. Fast forward a few years, and now he’s running a $300k business! He quit his job at the steel mill and now runs these food tours full time. How did Chris go from slinging steels to doing food tours? Tune in to Ep 632 of the Side Hustle Show to learn: how Chris built his food tours from the ground up how he's removed himself from some of the day-to-day operations how you might start something similar in your town Full Show Notes: From Weekend Side Hustle to $300k/year Business New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Shopify — Sign up for a $1 per month trial! Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! Mint Mobile — Cut your wireless bill to $15 a month! This is Small Business — Learn how to start and grow your small business with “This Is Small Business,” an Amazon original podcast, on your favorite podcast app.

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0:00.0	How a Food Tour side hustle turned into a $300,000 a year business.
0:06.0	What's up, what's up Nick Loper here?
0:08.0	Welcome to the Side Hustle show.
0:10.0	It's the Business Podcast you can actually apply, and I hope you're hungry because we got a
0:13.6	juicy one today my guest started a little weekend side hustle a few years ago giving
0:17.9	local food tours in Mobile, Alabama and he since quit that old steel mill day job and built it into a very comfortable
0:26.5	full-time income from in Bill Bites Food Tour.
0:29.8	Chris Andrews. Welcome to the Side Hustle show.
0:32.3	Hey, how are you?
0:33.4	I'm doing well and excited for this one.
0:35.6	Stick around.
0:36.6	We're going to learn how Chris got this thing off the ground, how he's removed himself
0:39.7	from some of the day-to-day operations,
0:41.5	and how you might start something similar in your town.
0:43.7	But Chris, take me back to 2017, the early days, the inspiration to start this thing.
0:48.3	How come it needed to exist?
0:49.6	So a friend of mine did a food tour in Savannah, Georgia. I had never heard of a food tour before. And when she came back home and was telling us about her experience of going to different restaurants and she did a tour of the city of Savannah and they went to
1:04.3	different landmarks in the city and the tour guide was talking about the
1:07.4	landmarks that was all really really interesting to me I've been a history
1:11.2	buff ever since I was a kid, especially local history, and I thought, you know, that's absolutely what we need in Mobile, Alabama.
1:18.0	You know, we've got 300 plus years of history and Mobile.
1:21.0	It's one of the oldest cities in the United States.
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