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DT Works and sales tax
Dessert Truck is back, sorta. The geniuses behind serving up delicious desserts out of a truck for $5 dollars is back with a brick and mortar store after their truck got shut down. Of course we all never really know what happened with the truck... it was reported it was some paperwork issue... I'd put my money on the whole black market permit thingy and maybe some guy tried to gauge them to rent a permit after all their success. No matter what the real story is, they made a comeback and now they're situated in the Lower East Side. They're now called DT Works and they're still serving up some great desserts.
The great thing about having a store front instead of a truck is that you can enjoy your dessert and not worry about the weather. The downside is that as a customer, you help foot the bill, since they gotta pay rent now. So desserts are up a dollar, from $5 to $6, and you pay sales taxe of 8.875% now. At the end, you're looking at $6.50 for dessert. A 30% increase is more startling to me now as I calculate the numbers than when it was when I ate the dessert. Does this mean that a warm chocolate bread pudding will make me forget about numbers? Maybe. But going forward, I think $6.50 for dessert means that the desserts have to be awesome for me to always love DT Works. For some, I know $5 is already a pretty crazy number but for New York City, that's not bad.
The folks doing DT Works are obviously pretty creative in coming up with the idea of fancy dessert out of a truck. I'm confident they'll make me a believer in $6.50 desserts as well.
DT Works
6 Clinton Street.
New York, NY 10020
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Sign up to the feed and never miss a post!Posted by Danny on January 26 2010 at 10:55 am
