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What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz? (with a catch)

DinaLRosenberg — Tue, 13 May 2025 20:16:00 GMT

Imagine this- you have unlimited funds for 24 hours.. what would you do in your business? Give me the pragmatic and the FANTASTIC!

Some ideas for our biz (we own a crystal shop) beyond paying off our line of credit and a HUGE inventory buy (remember that game show Supermarket Sweep.. I bet it would feel like that)...

I'd also make arrangements for us to attend the Gem Shows in France & Munich (I'd LOVE to check out the European shows but they just aren't practical).

If I had time- new laptops.... one of those polaroid aura photography setups (they're like 25k). And an old school Zoltar machine!

Re: Question of the Week- What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz, (with a catch).

DinaLRosenberg — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:20:54 GMT

Someone asked "what's the catch"- No catch... no repayment - 24 hours only and for your business, not personal 🙂

Re: Question of the Week- What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz, (with a catch).

RuckusDonuts — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:44:45 GMT

Easy.....wipe out all of our debt, invest in some new equipment (including a snazzy truck to tow the now paid for trailer) and make my landlord a one time only cash offer on the building 😉 Oh! BIG bonuses to my staff and one helluva lunch on us!

Re: Question of the Week- What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz, (with a catch).

Candlestore — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:04:55 GMT

With the 24 hours,

New Vats that are more energy efficient
Roof tops lined with wind turbines
batteries store and electric grid connections to sell back energy to the power company thieves
New carving equipment
2 53 ft trucks each full of the 4 types of wax we use
All new dyes for my candles
a pallet of each size wick we use
18 trucks full of the Glass we use
New equipment to do sublimation shirts and sweatshirts for the vacationers
now I need inks and dyes for that equipment
Shirts in all sizes
Sweet shirts
Hoodies...
Buy a 10 year contract for Advertising..... Billboards, Online, TV etc
too much ordering now I need a warehouse or two locally lol
tell the person to drop $30 million in a high yield account that cannot be touched but the iearnings can only be used to pay for employees.

Might need to buy a new candle factory too.... maybe in a spot where tourists always go...... next to Disney world ... naaa too hot

ok now,

Probably if I actually did get a 24 hr spending spree unlimited,

Equipment
Buy the bulding
get a contractor to update the insides
plenty of supplies for a year to make our items
Hire a company to integrate Square to my accounting (ERP CRM systems)
Hire people to update and redisgn my website
Get some Wind generators to help with the ever increasing electric bills
Pay off debts for the business
Pay for more advertising, than what we currently have and more where are customers travel from, The trip state area not just in a 25 mile radius.
pay for trips to different Retail and candle type markets for retailers.

ALways think big

Re: Question of the Week- What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz, (with a catch).

Donnie-M — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:54:41 GMT

@DinaLRosenberg Me and my team had way too much fun this afternoon with this one. WAYYYYY too much time wasted but I will call it bonding. Here we go:

This is the kind of hypothetical chaos that I love. We came up with 2 roads: Things that would make the business better & Go big or Go Home

The Smart Business Moves

Buy a Fully Integrated POS & AI-Driven Kitchen System
- A system that tracks inventory in real-time, predicts food waste, and auto-orders based on sales trends. Our Square system is already strong, but imagine if it told me exactly what I needed before I ran out.
Franchise-Level Kitchen Revamp
- Every store gets a complete kitchen upgrade—state-of-the-art fryers, speed ovens, and ventilation systems that actually work instead of just moving hot air around.
Prepay Employee Salaries for a Year
- Imagine the morale boost if everyone knew they were financially secure for the next year while still working as usual.
Buy a "Break Glass in Case of Emergency" Backup Staff
- A rotating crew of elite, on-call kitchen mercenaries (think The Expendables, but they wield spatulas instead of guns). They only come in for peak times, flu season, or when Virginia decides she actually IS too sick to work.
Custom Food Truck for Expansion
- A fully branded mobile kitchen to test new markets, cater events, and throw the biggest middle finger at competitors. Bonus: Food truck wars against people who can’t cook half as well as my team.

If Money Were No Object & Logic Didn’t Exist

The "You Got Sharoned" Employee Training Simulator
- A VR simulation of all the worst-case employee mistakes (open tea nozzles, fake money deposits, the infamous grilled cheese question). New hires must survive five full shifts in Virtual Sharon Hell before they’re allowed to work the real floor.
Psychic AI Kitchen Assistant
- Modeled off of actual conversations with AI, except this one is a holographic entity in the kitchen. It floats around giving real-time managerial feedback and astrological predictions on employee meltdowns. It also can snitch on who left the sink running and overflowed the dish pit.
A Restaurant Empire Built Like a Mafia Organization
- Every store operates like a House in Game of Thrones. Employees swear fealty, receive titles like "Lord of the Fryer," and kitchen wars settle disputes instead of HR.
A Grand Employee Tournament (The “Culinary Coliseum”)
- Once a year, all managers and employees compete in a battle royale. Tasks range from grill line speed rounds to handling the most obnoxious customer without snapping.
- The winner gets a golden spatula and a week off with pay. The loser? Dish duty for a month.
A Kitchen Cult Compound (But Fun!)
- A massive facility with a fully stocked kitchen, housing for employees, an indoor garden, and a therapy goat. Employees live and work in harmony, solving problems through tarot readings and Buffalo sauce debates.

Final Move:

Before the 24 hours are up, stash some of the unlimited money in an offshore account. That way, when the funds disappear, I’ve still got a golden parachute for future Shenanigans™.

Re: Question of the Week- What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz, (with a catch).

DinaLRosenberg — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:38:49 GMT

hahahaha this was so much fun to read!!!

Re: Question of the Week- What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz, (with a catch).

DinaLRosenberg — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:39:44 GMT

it would feel so nice to off load debt- it's been a hell of a year

Re: Question of the Week- What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz, (with a catch).

DinaLRosenberg — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:43:19 GMT

this is way more thought out- I think you need to start playing lotto cause this money is well spent 🙂

Re: Question of the Week- What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz, (with a catch).

rtfulk — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 02:08:09 GMT

We had a new 18ft trailer built 3 years ago and I spent 2 years with the trailer driving the truck, We towed with a 1/2 ton Nissan Titan. Last year we ordered a 3/4 ton F-250 and it’s night and day. It doesn’t feel like the trailer is behind us now, driving has been much more enjoyable.

Re: Question of the Week- What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz, (with a catch).

rtfulk — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 02:28:20 GMT

If money was no object.

First we would go to China to tour the factories we are contracted with to see the full operation. They invite us all the time, but time is our enemy just not enough of it.

Second I would hire a photography and social media team. Again time is our enemy and some of our photos don’t look that great. Luckily this year we have got two of the factories we work with to use their photography team to take photos for us.

Third, get a warehouse.

Re: Question of the Week- What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz, (with a catch).

doc_choc — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:17:37 GMT

@DinaLRosenberg I would have to go for a Spider vertical circular tunnel. It's a vertical cooling tunnel for chocolate making, they just look so cool when making chocolate bars. I could sit back and switch it on with my big toe, not sure the hygiene inspector would appreciate that.

Re: Question of the Week- What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz, (with a catch).

ryanwanner — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 18:39:53 GMT

Ooohhh... you got my mind spinning @DinaLRosenberg !!

Yeah the obvious would be to clear all the debt of course. Then make an offer for a cash purchase of the property where my business is at (15+ acres commercially zoned, rumor mill says asking price is $20M because real estate in Colorado is just STUPID right now).

On the actual business, I'd definitely finish the build out of my coffee bar, stock it with all the whiz-bang things that aren't practical at all but a blast to ooh and aah over, bring on a team of well trained, paid in advance people (I like that idea a lot @Donnie-M !), and prebook flights and accommodations to many of the coffee growing areas of the world to time with the harvest season. Add in a few donations to the nonprofits that are core components of our community, and I think I've done some significant damage to that unlimited budget.

What a fun distraction from my crazy day! Thanks! 🙂

Re: Question of the Week- What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz, (with a catch).

DinaLRosenberg — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 18:41:47 GMT

WOW great idea!! I love the idea of prepaying the staff/employees too- so brilliant.

Re: Question of the Week- What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz, (with a catch).

CareyJo — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:52:48 GMT

1. Pay off all debt.

2. Get all the mechanical issues fixed on the truck (it's a diesel, don't trade it in).

3. Buy the custom work box for the truck he's been wanting and get the vinyl graphics redone.

4. Get the carport built that we need for the work truck.

5. Get the shop redone and another structure built for the tractor and implements.

6. Buy a new box trailer for jobs.

7. Replace the welder.

This was a great question!! I wish that I had more creative ideas, but we're so limited with being a service company and no employees.

Re: Question of the Week- What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz, (with a catch).

Twistedmixers — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 19:18:37 GMT

Pay off my business and grown into a secondary business.

Re: Question of the Week- What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz, (with a catch).

VanKalkerFarms — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 15:47:36 GMT

I'm going to add my own constraints on top.

It has to be something that happen in that 24 hours and be accomplished within say 2 weeks for delivery. (eliminating pre-paying for the next 10 years of supplies or a new barn that will take a year to order and build)

Two new Rivian R1S Gen 2 for owners, about 80k each
Two new Bouldin Lawson Maxi Fillers, they're in stock at $29k each
Four new Electric Cushman carts for pulling racks around the property
New Semi and trailer as mine has 1.3 million miles on it, combo pushing 250k
New iMacs and MacBooks
30 new nice chairs for the employee breakroom
swamp cooler for the checkout area of the greenhouse to help cool the 100 degreee plus temps.
Finally get that Star Trek: The Next Generation Pinball machine I've wanted for the last 30 years
A 4 hour run through Menards to stock up on parts and pieces and stuff for the tool and repair and maintenance building.
Probably an hour on Supplyhouse.com ordering tools and parts

Re: Question of the Week- What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz, (with a catch).

doc_choc — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:25:26 GMT

I know independents here in the UK sometimes work with photography students looking for images for their portfolio. Not sure how it works your side of the pond but this might be a route to tapping in to some local creative skills.

Re: Question of the Week- What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz, (with a catch).

DinaLRosenberg — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:06:34 GMT

I love the idea of going to China... I would love to go to the mines and see. how they pull crystals out of the ground!!!

Re: Question of the Week- What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz, (with a catch).

DinaLRosenberg — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:07:10 GMT

hahahaha!!

Are you guys getting swept up in the Dubai Chocolate Craze like we are in the States??

Re: Question of the Week- What would YOU do with unlimited funds for your biz, (with a catch).

DinaLRosenberg — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:08:08 GMT

YASSSSS on the pinball machine- love that.. and love the additional constraints you added.