The table in the driveway does work somewhat. Kind of depends on how much effort and time you want to put into it.
We actually have a "self-serve" stand in our driveway part of the year. We have a jar for a pay can and it's totally honor system.
The problem with a driveway stand is - how long are you going to just sit there ?? Chances are you won't make enough to pay a kid to sit there either, unless you have 1 of your own you can talk into doing it. We don't, so therefore the "self-serve" stand.
The problem with a self-serve tho, is you aren't there to answer questions all the time. Fortunately one of us is usually somewhere nearby if a customer has a question.
As far as losing product to people that just take the stuff -- we've had very little problems with that. Sure sometimes a few things seem gone with no money in the jar. But we've also had plenty of time when there doesn't seem to be much of anything gone but there is a good amount of money in the jar. Of course we don't live in a high population area, but on a road that gets reasonably decent traffic.
Depending on your location you might want to close it down every evening or at least take the money jar in at nite. An option could be one of the easy to set-up tents / canopy and put the side walls down at nite. We have a large 12 x 30 canopy, mainly for the shade as the produce can cook pretty fast if just left out in the sun.
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