Is renting tents and tables and chairs part of the party rental business?
It is part of the party rental business. It’s also a whole lot of work. I’m guessing two to three times the amount of work as the actual inflatables, although I’ve met tent rental companies that swear up and down that my side of it is harder. You need a lot more help for tents, there’s no question about that, and chairs are great except chairs and tables take up a lot of space, and I think a chair rents for like 75 cents a piece, so you’re doing a lot of manpower for not a whole lot of money. The people I know that started in just basic party rentals and added in tents, tables, and chairs, did it because they were subcontracting the equipment from someone else for so long they decided they might as well put the money in their own pocket. What about snowcone and popcorn and cotton candy machines? Do you recommend renting these out, too, for additional profit? I’ve never met a backyard party that didn’t have some type of fun food to go along with it. Usually cotton candy, snocone, popcor
