Blog #8: Research and Working EQ

1)What is your working EQ?

   

          EQ: What is the best way to manage a Thai cuisine when a minimum wage is increasing?\

2) What is a possible answer to your working EQ? Please write the answer in thesis format.

• The owner should reduce labor cost.
• The owner increase an reasonable price according to the cost of living.
• The owner should search and stock up the food and supplies as on sale but do not over stock beyond the expiration date.
• The chef should present the food that look massively portion than it should be.

3) What is the most important source you have used that has helped you come up with an answer to your working EQ?

      From the book called "It's all about the guest" by Steve Difllippo is the most helpful resource that I have so far.

4) Who is your mentor, or where are you doing mentorship, and how does what you are doing relate to your working EQ?

       My mentor is Mr.Chukiat Navasu who is the owner of City Thai restaurant. I'm currently working in this restaurant. Right now, I am working as a front house which helped me to consider how our customers response and how should I handle it. My grandparents and I also discuss about how the waiters and waitresses work in the restaurant. Is it worth to hire them and what might need to change? Beside that My grandpa start teaching inventories to me. In the back house, I learn how to put food on the plates or bowls.

      

Spicy Spaghetti with coconut shrimp

 It has been a pretty exhausting day....... I asked myself what I can make a simplest meal for me....... I want to eat something really spicy that make my tears dropped....... I want to have egg,  shrimps, and spaghetti combine in a dish....... So I come up with this plate for my dinner....... You might think this is what I thought the simplest meal....... That's me always go for complicate thing even try to be a simple person on earth.

Blog #7: Independent Component 1 Approval

1) Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

      According to my mentorship at City Thai Cuisine, I would like to invent a Thai Tea cupcake and Mango Sticky Rice cupcake to this restaurant. It's a combination between Thai and America culture food. This idea inspires by having inadequacy of selling desert at the restaurant. I want to create something unique but yet eatable for others. I will start off this independent component by learning how to bake a cupcake. After that I will adapt into Thai version for both cupcake and designing the presentation of the cupcakes.

             

Thai Tea cupcake

• Adding the thai tea as the base of cupcake. (http://www.bowenappetit.com/2012/05/30/thai-iced-tea-cupcakes-with-condensed-milk-buttercream/) 
• Using half and half as the frosting. 
• Sprinkles on top of the frosting.

Mango Sticky Rice cupcake

• Using Pandan as the base of the cupcake. (http://bakehappy.net/2014/08/pandan-cupcakes-pandan-cream-cheese-frosting.html)
• Adding the mango and sticky rice on top of it.

        This is just only the producing the products. Following plan that I have is selling them at the restaurant within a month. I will collect the data about how much do I sell, profits, and the initial expenses. when I sell these cupcakes, I will create a flyer and adverting it as well. I will hand out the survey for complimenting and criticizing.

2) Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence. 

     

       I personally believe that I will make this over 30 hours due to the selling time can't just estimate only 30 hours plus all the time that I have to learn how to make the cupcakes delicious and presentable. I will learn how to make a cupcake and frosting from the cooking book. Also, I will learn how to make sticky rice and thai tea from my mentors. I will prove this process by taking pictures and creating the video for this component. Beside that I will link to my daily accounting for this particularly expenses and the survey.

3) Explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

    

         I believe this component will help me explore my topic in depth by learning skills hands-on that the owner should have such as know how to cook, advertise, and manage in the restaurant. I think that will be a good starter for me to experience how it was like to manage part of the restaurant sell in real life with customers. 

4) Updated my Senior Project Log: Click Here.