Frito-Lay brand chips (Sam’s Club) Variety Pak, 50ct.Mustard (Sam’s Club) French’s brand, 105oz., $3.88 or 2¢ a serving.All-beef hot dogs (Sam’s Club), 8:1’s, 10lb.We need, we want the actual numbers, the actual costs to make that hot dog. Some will say that your factor your profits per hot dog by subtracting the cost of goods sold, but again, this ignores the real costs, the additional items used to make the sell possible. If your total and real costs are $1.00 per dog, then you'd have to sell that hot dog for $10.00 – (good luck). You can get 90% profits but it's from the other end of the equation. All these items must be included in the cost for you to determine the true and real profit from each hot dog sold. There are peripheral items that cost money, that aren't sold but make it possible for you to sell hot dogs. How are you keeping condiments cold? I bet there is some ice costs.Are you handing them the hot dog on foil, wax paper or boat? Those items aren't free.How are you going to cook that hot dog? Then I bet there is some propane used.Of course there is the bun, the condiments and the hot dog, but if you're wanting accurate estimates of how much profit is in a hot dog, then there are MORE that we MUST consider. And can you imagine what a 9¢ hot dog tastes like? Yuck. When someone says a hot dog cost 9¢, most likely they're lying and at very least not telling you the whole truth. You're always better off doing the math yourself. There are those, these sellers of hot dog carts who love to catch the unsuspecting future vendor by surprise and tempt them with website calculators and pre-filled forms showing erroneous and misleading costs. BEWARE: Many sites give inaccurate or incomplete data in effort to sell carts. When looking into the hot dog vending business one of the first things we want to know is just how much profit is in a hot dog.