Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Cake Sale Numero Uno


Cake Sale 1 Recap:
The day we have all been waiting for has finally arrived. Two group members actually spent the night on Jammie plaza, to get a good spot for the team. That’s dedication right there! We started setting up before 6am and we could tell just from looking at some of the other stands that competition was going to be fierce. There was absolutely no room for slacking and we needed to bring our “A-game”.  Our shop was called “Kickass Kombos” and the theme color was lime green. We were fortunate enough to get sponsorship from some very awesome companies like U & Me coffee, Schechter’s energy drink, Coimbra bakery and ice-cream Ninjas. We also managed to get sponsorship from a company called Massage on the beach. The group though it would be cool idea to offer students the option of getting a massage while you wait for your food. Now that’s what I call, customer service.

At our shop, we served mouth watering breakfast, lunch and dessert combos. Our goal was to offer students a variety of affordable options. For breakfast, the menu included coffee with a brownie or coffee and a pancake with assorted toppings. Our famous kickass lunch combo included a boerewors rolls, fresh popcorn and a drink. Finally for dessert, we had brownies a la mode (brownies and ice-cream) and pancakes with ice-cream. 


Surprisingly, the popcorn was extremely popular and we found ourselves struggling to keep up with demand. During peak hour, we almost had a mini crisis when our popcorn machine lost a screw and literally fell apart. When you have over a dozen customers standing in line waiting for popcorn, you simply can’t tell them to go home. Not good for business. So we were forced to get creative and come up with a solution.  Fifteen minutes later, we found the solution in Bianca’s hair. We used one of her hair clips to keep the unit in place. This incident taught us 3 very important lessons:
1) Necessity is the mother of invention 2) creativity is the sister of innovation and
 3) Every problem has a solution provided you are willing to look for it.



 Entrepreneurship: The Art of Innovation

Every single member of our group worked extremely hard. We made a promise to ourselves that we would keep on selling on campus, until there were no more hungry students left to buy our food. As a result of this insane determination, we succeeded in selling 97% of our boerewors rolls (that’s over 39kg of halaal meat).  Somewhere around 9pm, we finally decided to close our store and go home (for those of you doing the math, that’s 18 hours of standing on our feet and serving customers all day!). Although we fell short of achieving our financial goal for cake sale 1, we succeeded in being the hardest working group (in our humble opinion) and the last team standing on the Jammie Plaza. That’s incredible.



We would also like to give A BIG warm THANK YOU to all our sponsors and volunteers:

U & Me coffee
Ice-cream Ninja’s
Schechter’s energy drink
Coimbra bakery
Massage on the beach
Craig’s mom J


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