Documenting a burrito business journeyfrom @bad.hambres

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I'm Rank, and fifteen months ago, I quit my nine to five job to start a frozen bean and cheese burrito company with my wife, Sam. By October, we sold a 142,000 burritos, but we still hadn't paid ourselves, and tier down to our last two months of savings. We bootstrapped this whole thing from just the two of us in our home kitchen to an elite team shipping burritos across Arizona out of an old Taco Bell. But between surprise worst, reinvesting, and a maxed out kitchen, it still wasn't enough for a paycheck. Our plan? Partner with a big time manufacturer, launch national shipping, sell more burritos, and finally, get paid, all by the end of the year. So after a nationwide search, we found a manufacturer just twenty minutes away. But it all came down to the first test run. If they couldn't match our quality, we'd be screwed. But first came the training. We showed them the insanity of our process, and they didn't flinch. Then came the real best, their kitchen, their gear, and the new year's deadline. Real rank, we are losing our If this flop, there is no plan b. Well, they made their first batch and honestly, it was flawless. Just like that, bad ombres has its manufacturer. But shipping by the end of the year wasn't gonna happen. So we did what we had to do. Qualified for a 0% APR credit card, baby. What good tier up story doesn't start with a maxed out credit card anyway? We may not have hit our deadline, but did we hit a million dollars selling frozen bean and cheese burritos in 2025? Hell, yes. They say the first million's the hardest. Damn. We hope they're right. Because we just hit our biggest shipping roadblock yes, and it's not the manufacturer. We're totally But that's a problem for the next update. Follow along because