Just an update on whats been going on in the last week :)
*As it's the last day of trading, we managed to compromise with Mrs Foster and the technology staff to sell crisps made from sunflower oil and water. We decided to sell the crisps at 30p and the water at 50p to the staff at school. So hopefully we should be able to sell the lot today :D
*We have nearly finished the report, just the reflection part and the financial part to do now!
And that's it!
Emily X
Today some members of the team (Adam, Myself 'Josh' and Emily) Took part in a filming event today with Paul Oxborough from the Progressive Consultancy Services. During this emily took part in a 60 second interview outlining the success of the business. And filmed our team in action whilst taking orders from two of the colleges staff 'Mrs Swift' and 'Mrs Elliott'. As a big thank you to them today we are going to offer them some free merchandise.
Today we also had involved some media students 'Amy' and 'Jenna' who were involved in filming the above events, and will be doing plenty more filming with us in the near future.
We are now required to think of ideas for the opening scenes of the final presentation. so we need to be quite cheeky and nventive to ensure this is rather entertaining, to do this we need to get together and discuss ideas ASAP.
Josh
Unfortunatly the idea we portrayed about gaining access to an event school was hosting titled ready steady cook has been unsuccessfull. This is because although we recieved permission from the Catering Staff to take part and sell/Promote our products we failed to gain permission from a 3rd Party. Due to this reason we were unale to attend the event which resulted in quite a set back as we anticipated making a relativly good profit from this (around £60+).
I suppose this is what happens in a real business, were disapointed but we know for next time to get all forms of permission in writing from everybody involved.
A set back but im sure we can recover this as i have total faith in the team.
We are now investigating whether or not we can run a stall at the school play later this week.
Josh
Meals on Foot has a website!
Visit us at http://www.freewebs.com/mealsonfoot
We will still be using this blog though!!
More about the stall at the ready Steady Cook event soon!
Emily X
Yay!
The most talented and amazing Mike and Adam managed to get us a stall for the readuy steady cook event today!
Soo we can go ahead with promoting and selling food on the night.
We are going to sell a mixture of sandwiches, healthy drinks, cereal bars, and perhaps tea and coffee on the night..
It is a real boost to the business and it should be a good giggle..
So watch this space :)
Emily X
Fun day today !
Me Mike and Adam decided to have a working lunch to sort some business out to do with Meals on foot, and plan how we can expand into the community.
Adam got stressed, which was hillarious!
So we thought we'd share the humour..
Oh and by the way, Mike is sharing my account because he doesn't have one!
Emily X
This week there is a ready steady cook event at college, as part of Food technology.
We plan to perhaps have a stall on the event, to raise more awareness and to sell our food!
it would be really good for our profit margins, not only for us, but for the school, because it is yet another great thing about the college - the business enterprise side :D
We plan to sell sandwiches (obviously!), danishes, healthy drinks, water, cereal bars, etc.
But we have to talk to Mr Fox to negotiate terms :D
So lets see if we can persuade them with our charm and beauty :D:D
Emily X
Last week we decided to do a big promotion week to boost the business.
So last wenesday Michael went into staff briefing to charasmatically engange the staff, and remind them of the most efficient, healthy and delicious food business in town. It was a success as we got a few more orders resulting in a greater week of business.
Mike
You may have noticed our new banner!!
We decided that our old logo, "Healthy. Tasty. Cheap" was a bit rubbish to be blunt. it makes a bit of a bad impression on our business, because we are good value, not cheap and tacky :S
We decided to this after talking to Alex, the manager and owner of Yorkies,
So we have replaced it with "The healthy, tasty option" :D, which sounds much better and creates a better impression :D
We also took the van off the logo because we deliver on foot rather than Car :D, which gives the wrong impression haha :)
And thats the update on the logo :)
Emily X
Sorry!
We were a bit slow updating the meeting with the entrepreneur :)
Last Wednesday we met Alex Gardner from Yorkshire Pudding company, to discuss business tactics and whatnot :)
Alex was really nice and helped us on our way to business success!
we discussed action points - which were
We also asked her lots of questions about her business and we got some really informative answers, now we have a realistic version of what a business is like :D
She also really liked our site and she needs to update hers! so we both achieved from the session xD
So thankyou Alex for your help, and we will let you know how the comp goes!
X
Just to let everyone know that we have an entrepreneur of a local coffee shop coming to school today to give us some tipson how to run a business ;]
we'll let you know how it went!
X x
Here is the finalised roster for the roles for the members of 'Meals On Foot'
The above are the main roles however members may be required to take on secondary roles e.g. somebody may be required to fill in as the delivery manager in case micheal falls ill.
However we have all reached an agreement about the roles and so far the team has been working extremely well together. Meals On Foot will be a very sucessfull business.
All across Europe people have been asking when can we see this amazing video
Well the news is - it's not amazing and the other news is people from Europe haven't been asking but our mums have and I'm sure you will agree it's a cool and very funny video made in less than 15 minutes
So get Oxo man (the video guy around to help you)
Enjoy the video
This is the Questionaire that we distributed to all members of staff at westfield sports college prior to launching the business, the reason for this was to give the team a rough overview of certain demands for certain products. Feel free to view the questionaire below.
Meals on Foot - Lunch for Teacher Question and Answer Sheet
We are a Big Challenge Enterprise company, made up of 6 year 11 students. We have set up a company called "Meals on Foot" and are offering a lunch service to staff until March 2008. To set up our service we would like to know - what do you like to eat for lunch?
Please would you spare the time to answer the following questions. This is not an agreement to purchase from us, and the more honest you are the better service we can provide. Please feel free to add extra comments as you think necessary.
Do you normally consume lunch at school
Yes
No
Would you be interested in a staff lunch service at school?
Yes
No
What sort of bread do you prefer?
brown sliced
white sliced
granary sliced
rolls
wraps
other (please specify) .......................................................
What fillings would you be interested in ? (tick as many as you are interested in)
cheese
ham
salad
tuna
corned beef
other (please specify) .......................................................
Are you ?
vegetarian
vegan
other dietary requirements please specify..........................................
Would you be interested in any of the following?
pasta pots (please specify which flavours)
salad pots (please specify which flavours)
toasted sandwiches (please specify which fillings)
crisps
fruit (please specify)
chocolate bars
fruit juice cartoon
other drink (please specify - not alcohol!)........................................
Would you be prepared to order it
on Friday for the following week
the evening before
other (please specify)........................................................
How much would you be prepared to pay for the following?
White bread, ham and cheese plus one condiment
toasted cheese sandwich
Healthy wrap with chicken and salad plus one condiment
pasta pot with chicken and tomato
salad pot with ham and coleslaw
Is there anything else would be interested in purchasing for lunch?
of sales from meals on foot and already our earnings stand well over £65, with orders flying through each day with regular customers approaching us from all angles.
Our overall net profit is expected to increase dramatically over the course of the remaining weeks, after publicity pushes etc. The fact stands that if we continue on the rate meals on foot are operating. This will be (and is allready) a very sucessful business.
Today we at meals on foot had our first official interview with a film crew from 'The Big Challenge', they asked us all a series of questions in seperate interviews about the business Meals On Foot. The team answered these with very enthusiastic attitudes and the commercial we filmed was immense. There is no doubt that this was a very sucessfull day for everyone.
We are all now waiting on the arrival of the video file on disk so we can post the video on our website.
We are hoping for future events of the such and we will be posting more information/videos of our progress on the website.
Staff are now eating healthily around school, which promotes a really good example for the students at the colllege and we hope this will spread out into the community.
We are determined to get staff hooked on this healthy option.
Next week we are having a big publicity push, using;
we are the best team and will make loads of money and spend it all on healthy food and cancer research
Good Luck Team!
Hello!
For those who don't know us, we are Meals on Foot. Meals on Foot is a scheme which plan to bring healthy meals to the staff at Westfield Sports College. We plan to have an ordering service up and running by the end of this week, and if all goes to plan we should be making meals very soon!
Because the staff at Westfield don't usually eat at the school canteen (which is understandable because sometimes it is bedlam), they either bring food from home or go out of school to buy food. There are two problems with these solutions. The first is the food bought from shops may not be healthy, they are usually highly overpriced. If the staff bring food from home and don't have access to a fridge the food may become unsavoury, especially in the summer months! They may also not have enough time to prepare their lunch, as mornings can be pretty hectic.
So this gave us the inspiration to create some sort of meals service for the staff at Westfield who would like freshly to eat freshly prepared, tasty meals at a low price. We have already handed out surveys to every member of staff at school, and are going to post the results soon. In the meantime, we are working through what requirements the staff have and are deciding weather to have a set menu which will be rotated each day, or to have an ordering service where the staff can pretty much have what they want.
So now you know a bit about us, we will be posting more blogs soon!
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