9 April 2013

9 April 2013

The big day has finally arrived, and to be honest we cannot wait for it to be over and done with! At 5:30am everyone met on the Jammie Plaza- Sarah and Murray were woken up by us banging on their car windows, not the best wakeup call but it had to be done. We started setting up by unpacking everything into the fridges, setting the tables out the way we wanted, putting table cloths on the tables, putting our banners up, starting the grill etc. at about &:30am when campus started to fill up, Monster still had not arrived- everyone started to panic! Dean phoned them and they had said they were on their way at 7am but by &:30am they had still not arrived, Monster is our most valuable asset today so if they had not have pitched we would have been “screwed”. But Monster did eventually arrive with the huge Monster truck filled with hundreds of Monster energy drinks. And so the cooking began, for breakfast we started selling bacon and egg rolls with a Monster for R20 and those sold out within a few hours so then we started our burger and a Monster combination for R20. At first, sales were really slow and we began to stress if we would ever make our desired profit, but by lunch time our queues were 200m long and our sales were endless. We each had our designated areas of work, Sam and Teboho were continuously cutting and preparing the rolls, Murray and Dean were cooking the burgers, Shea was handing the burgers to the customers, Sarah was handling the finances and Kim was doing the feathers as well as helping to prepare the rolls and throw burgers on the grill.

 Everything worked well, and because we had precooked so much more than last time- our production time was a lot faster so our customers were receiving their meals a lot quicker. The feathers were also a huge hit, and girls were coming from all over to get a feather hair extension- it was a major success. Our goal was to stay on campus until all our stock was sold out, therefore we stayed on campus until 6pm and we managed to sell out all stock and therefore we achieved our desired profit- so cake sale 2 was a success! Sales started slowing down at the end, but then Dean would head out into the crowds and promote our amazing burger and Monster combination and then our sales would pick up again.

By 6pm we were so exhausted, after cleaning up we all went our separate ways to finally sleep- something we all had not done in a while! We learned a lot from cake sale one which applied to our cake sale two, however we did not plan and delegate jobs very well. Some people had more than one job therefore was not putting all their effort into one job therefore in future we need to ensure we have helpers and make sure everyone has ONE job to do. Tomorrow is a big academic day for all of us; therefore we need our beauty sleep- so we’ll chat again tomorrow!