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Soup is mostly water. Water is big and heavy. It can spill. Burns can be devastating. If you have a big pot you need a very flat stable surface to heat it.
Sausages can be cooked as you need them but you can't keep topping up your soup all day. You need to make the correct quantity to begin with. Which means waste is likely.
skill issue
Yeah, there's logistical problems with, say, a soup stand: How do you deliver the soup to people? Reusable ceramic bowls? Those are gonna break eventually, needing replacement, and they're also heavy as shit. Plastic? That's not super good for environments, people will toss them in the trash, and plastic isn't reusable in the long run on such a small scale. The ideal bowl would be like what Tim Hortons had for a while, bread bowls, but that itself is another logistical problem of producing your own bread bowls. Edit: Fuck me was this back in 2001? I'm turning to dust by the day
There's logistical reasoning as to why you typically get soup at kitchens.
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Half these criticisms feel odd. I can't manufacture new hotdogs in my street food stand, they're coming from somewhere offsite anyways, seems easy enough to replicate with soup.
Cooking is just sort of dangerous to begin with, I feel like "Stable surface, possibly a cage, for big pot" is rather more a solved issue
I think you might be on to something with the water thing though, that could be a problem. 800 hotdogs seems a lot easier to transport than 400L of soup.