Update 29.02.08

during thursday citizen, we had a brief meeting with the canteen supervisor and asked questions relating to the making and selling of our shakes. we will be selling the shakes from the year 11 window and will make the milkshakes there and then. thursday after school, we met up to practice making shakes and have decided the final flavours to be:

curly wurly
strawberry
vanilla
maltesers
minstrels
creme egg

we also purchased 4 blenders to use which are currently being pat tested for safety reasons.

Update 27.02.08

today we began advertising for shake at break & lunch times, we also wore our shake badges which seemed to generate lots of publicity & interest. tomorrow during citizen, we have a meeting with the canteen supervisor over final arrangements which should answer all our questions. tomorrow we are also meeting to practice making our shakes before we start. we hope to start next tuesday & continue every tuesday & thursday, at lunch, for the next four weeks, starting next week. final prices are £1 for a plain shake & £1.50 for one with a topping.

Update 19.02.08

today i confirmed the t-shirt order which will be ready in time for the bag packing. everything is going as planned with the bag packing, which has been organised for 11:00 at ASDA Totton. we went through the questionnaires and the total we recieved was 177 out of 204, giving a 86.76% return. when we return to school we can write a report on our findings and finalize flavours. when we go back we also need to confirm details with the canteen, carry out further research, begin final presentation to faith & football and finish of the business plan. we will also need to create a poster advertising our business within tutors.

all is going to schedule!

Update 15.02.08

Our initial plans of using the food tech rooms for the shake bar were halted after finding out we all needed food health & safety certificates in case we spreaded samonella, however we are now able to use the canteen instead which is great news. our advert was also shown for the first time today at lunch which seemed to be a success. mr weller contacted the t-shirt company and now we can collect the t-shirts from them next week for the bag packing. we will be meeting at 10.45 at asda for the packing which will hopefully raise capital for our venture. we also counted the number of questionnaires and we have recieved 177 out of 250 back which gives us a 71% return which is great for market research.