San Francisco Carts and Concessions

We just rented one of the company’s ‘desktop’ versions of the hot dog stand for a event that we had at Stanford. It’s compact and easily fits on half of a 6 foot table.
We randomly picked this company from a Google search and couldn’t be more pleased with the outcome! The owner, was easily accessible for questions and worked to accommodate our crazy schedule for pickup and drop off. The unit was pristine clean, all the condiments were cut, packaged and ready for us.
This is what came with the desktop unit:
— condiments (chopped onions, relish, sauerkraut, sliced jalapenos) mustard (two kinds and organic) and ketchup
— serving unit for the condiments
— serving utensils
— unit (comes with umbrella)
— we purchased the hot dogs and buns (they are huge, really long)
— they provide a blanket to protect the unit during transportation
The desktop steamer easily fit the 50 hotdogs (looked like we could have put 100 total in the steamer). We filled the unit with boiling water (per Stanley’s suggestion) and it started to cook immediately. We kept all the dogs submerged and they stayed moist and tasted great. The bun steamer was fantastic. It’s a small compartment inside the unit that can fit 18 buns or so at a time. It really completed the overall hot dog eating experience! We set up 90 minutes before the event (again, per Stanley’s suggestion) and by the time people starting arriving, the unit was working in full force.
People attending the event really enjoyed the hot dog stand. Made the event more fun. It would be something great for parties at home as well because the unit is not expensive and is small enough to transport in a car.
I was impressed by the service, quality of food (people even gave compliments on the quality of condiments) quality of the unit itself, ease of use and again, the service. Picking a company randomly from the internet can be such a huge hit and miss, and we were so happy that we found a great company to work with.
We are hoping to rent the full sized unit for our next event.

Stanley’s Steamers sells steamed hot dogs via carts all over s.f. seems the original stanley was a pioneer in the art of selling from food carts.
to get around health reqs, stanley posted a sign saying his «pretzels» were not meant for human consumption. herb caen passed by, sampled his pretzel, publicized his situation, and the rest is gourmet history.
menu: many types of dogs and sausages.
sampling:
–orignal (4.50)
foot long dog, soft bun, crunchy snap, not much juice or taste. not as tasty as caspars. sauerkraut optional.
condiments available: mustard, ketchup, gluten mustard, relish, onions
foodnotes:
–dogs not so tasty, on bland side. pricey. 2,5 stars
–dogs made from cows 100% grass fed and vegeteran feed
–dogs sourced from niman ranch, vienna beef and aidells sausage
–clean hot dog stand. that’s about it.