The Open-Sourcing Soup Peddler???

Hugh pimps a Tailor. I pimp a Soup Maker. (Previous Soup Peddler pimpin’ can be found here and here … as well as a fresh pimp below.)

In a recent blog entry, David Ansel (The Soup Peddler) shares findings from his latest customer survey. The survey asked his Soupies their thoughts on the increasing bigness of the business and if they wanted more than just soup from The Soup Peddler. (Click here to view the survey results.)

David also shares a story about discussing his business with a highly successful Austin restaurateur who admitted being jealous of how much The Soup Peddler brings his Soupies into the business decision-making process.

The Soup Peddler writes …

Thanks to an introduction by someone I am only at liberty to refer to as The Invisible Hand of The Soup Peddler, I gained audience with Bic Brown, owner of Hyde Park Bar & Grill, to discuss the inner workings of my business plan, in order to ferret out any insanities that may lie within.

When I showed him the survey and some of the early responses, he was completely agog with the rarity of the connection that we have with our customers. He envisioned you, the collective Soupie, as a great, throbbing e-brain that could be harnessed to do my bidding.

His suggestion was to just put my business plan up on the website and tell you all to have at it. Just put it up there, go to sleep, and wake up the next morning with the whole damn thing all figured out.

I might just do that.

With the open-source movement gaining more and more momentum, it’ll be interesting to see what develops if the Soup Peddler does indeed open-source his business plan. For the Soup Peddler, it looks like there can never be too many cooks in his kitchen.