Bad Penny & The General Spot

Bad Penny & The General Spot The Official page for The General Spot, a licensed Mobile Foot Unit and camp kitchen.

Try our moderately famous grilled cheese and enjoy homemade root beer on tap! Come see where we end up, from community events to regional burns to RAGBRAI!

Day 6:Yep, we're back! This is actually our last day, made it to Friday!We are on the left hand side of the road a coupl...
07/25/2025

Day 6:
Yep, we're back! This is actually our last day, made it to Friday!

We are on the left hand side of the road a couple miles past Dunkerton

See you tomorrow!

07/24/2025

Great news! Bad Penny is on for one more day!! Root Beer Floats!

Look for the location update late this afternoon!

Day 5:Just west of Parkersburg, on the front lawn of a friend of ours. We will be casually serving by 8 am until we run ...
07/24/2025

Day 5:
Just west of Parkersburg, on the front lawn of a friend of ours.
We will be casually serving by 8 am until we run out of materials.

See you tomorrow 💜

Day 4/5 Update: Hey y'all, bad news. Tomorrow is Bad Penny's last day on the route because we don't have access to priva...
07/24/2025

Day 4/5 Update:
Hey y'all, bad news.
Tomorrow is Bad Penny's last day on the route because we don't have access to privately owned land outside of town.
Turns out there's a reason all the vendors moved to town.

It's been an amazing ride, a huge thank you to everyone who supported us. We hope to be back next year but unfortunately we just don't know.

Edit: so it's a land use thing, not related to ragbrai as an organization. We can't be on public roads, we have to be in town or on private property. This spring we went on a scout trip and it turns out landowners didn't want us or our rootbeer.

Besides, in all honesty, we didn't anticipate this level of demand. The love and support has been amazing, we've had a great time, but our little rig isn't made for this. It's time to go home, regroup, and see if we can ride to meet the challenge that is ragbrai

Day 4!! See you soon!
07/23/2025

Day 4!!

See you soon!

07/22/2025

Day 3 update:
Hey y'all, sorry to everybody we missed 💜
Long story short we picked a bad spot along the route and had to shut down early.
When we get settled in for day 4 we will update our location

See you tomorrow!

Bad Penny is onsite for day 3, look for us at the intersection turning to BancroftWe will be serving by 8 am and will ma...
07/22/2025

Bad Penny is onsite for day 3, look for us at the intersection turning to Bancroft

We will be serving by 8 am and will make grilled cheese until they're gone, which was about noon on day 2

See you tomorrow!

What a great second day! We sold out of grilled cheese and had to close up early, but folks still stopped by for a root ...
07/22/2025

What a great second day! We sold out of grilled cheese and had to close up early, but folks still stopped by for a root beer and a friendly chat

Thank you to everyone, your support means a lot to our little food cart 💜

On the ground for day 2, look for us on the Left Hand side of the road about 3 miles back into IowaSee you there!
07/21/2025

On the ground for day 2, look for us on the Left Hand side of the road about 3 miles back into Iowa
See you there!

07/21/2025

Wow thank you to everyone for the warm welcome back!! 🎉

For those keeping track we went through 26 loaves of bread and 35 gallons of root beer

We have our spot picked out for day 2, see you then!

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Elkader, IA
52043

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