Shake

Video Advert

Alex Langrish — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:48:00 +0000

Here is the revised Shake advert

Update 21.03.08

Alex Langrish — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:30:00 +0000

The blog hasn't been updated for a while due to the busy undertakings of shake. The business is doing fine and there is just one lunch left for our business.

The milkshakes have been extremely popular and we estimate that in the preivous six sessions we have served 200+ customers.

We have taken strawberry of the menu due to the fact that it was unpopular among the pupils and it had a low-profit margin.

Marketing has gone extremely well and every break and lunchtime, the advertisement is played on the projector in the assembly hall and posters have been put up around the school and have been sent out to every tutor group in the register.

Every session we have all met up at 12:05 and quickly put on our t-shirts, we then take into the kitchens, our equipment (blenders & extension lead) and then take out our ingredients and premake several shakes to ease the queue and to improve customer experience, once we are ready we open up and sell milkshakes for around twenty minutes until closing time. We then clean up our area, put away ingredients and equipment, wash up equipment and are ready in time for our next lessons.

Shopping has been carried out every monday and wednesday night in preparation for the next days, it has been carried out by those able to. The ingredients is then placed in the fridge and freezer, ready for lunch.

We have meet up every tuesday after-school to count money and to dicuss the business as well as putting together our business plan and presentaion, all of which are going very well.

Because of the easter weekend and an inset day, we are unable to carry out a shake session on tuesday but on thursday we will sell shakes at special offers such as maltesers for 75p. Also on monday afternoon, we will meet up to finish of our presentation and to discuss how the whole experience has developed, helped us to understand and changed our daily lives and how business run.

There is only one week left and we wish all teams, the best of luck!

Update 29.02.08

Alex Langrish — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:01:00 +0000

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

Alex Langrish — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:21:00 +0000

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 21.02.08

Alex Langrish — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:10:00 +0000

today was a great success, overall we raised £228.45 at ASDA which is great. altogether there was 7 of us, including mrs cunningham. hopefully soon we can store that money in an account but we will have to hang onto it for the moment. we also collected the t-shirts from WTSPC in winchester and the school have been invoiced for the cost. we also rang up clive to let him know how much we raised and also arranged to meet up for a meeting next tuesday.

Update 19.02.08

Alex Langrish — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:31:00 +0000

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!

Advert

Alex Langrish — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:34:00 +0000

here is james' brilliantly created advert that 'premiered' today

Update 15.02.08

Alex Langrish — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:27:00 +0000

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.

Logo

Alex Langrish — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:38:00 +0000

Here is the logo...

Welcome

Alex Langrish — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:37:00 +0000

Welcome to Shake, the hounsdown enterprise challenge team's business. After discussing with the team, we decided to change from personalized gifts (laseraid) to shake (milkshakes). Once we raise money from our charity bag packing, we will be able to begin buying products and hopefully begin selling.