Sunday, November 13, 2016

STRATEGY





 MAKES 2 CHIPS IN 1 PACKET
We always found assorted nuts in 1 packet, but never found assorted chips in 1 packet. This could be so rare and interesting to student ( especially ) to pay 1 price but have 2 types of chips.




-          CHOOSE OWN FAVOURITE CHIPS
Our strategy is to make the students choose their own chips. So that they can choose whatever chips that we have to mix.



-          PROMOTE ON SOCIAL MEDIA
We promoted our products at Instagram. Facebook and spread our advertising via whatsapp. Nowadays student spend more time by scrolling facebook and Instagram, communicate through whatsapp. This can make media social can be the main battlefield for business.




-          TESTER

Most important strategy if doing food business is the tester. Before buying, students can taste the chips first, and then choose their favourite chips to buy.


TARGET GROUP



STUDENTS
We offers this product ( chips ) to our  university students who enjoy these kind of product. This is because the price of these chips are reasonable and suitable for students who are not have much time to have a lunch.

LECTURERS
Lecturers who do not have much time to lunch, rushing to go to a class. This product can be grab and go chips.

MOTTO



Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.

Working together is success.

OBJECTIVE



Achieving higher sale 
in short term and donate 
to the unfortunate

NOTICE OF SECOND PROJECT MEETING

NOTICE OF 2nd PROJECT MEETING

To all Project members,

This is to inform all Project members that there will be a project Meeting details as follows:
            Date    : 17th October 2016
            Time    : 10.00 AM
            Venue  : Library Tunku Tun Aminah (UTHM)

 AGENDA :
            1. PASSING OF PREVIOUS MINUTES OF MEETING
            2. TITLE OF PROJECT
            3. BUDGET
            4. FINDING SUPPLIER OF THE CHIPS AND PACKAGING MATERIAL
            5. DESIGN OF THE PACKAGING
            6. DISCUSS PROGRESS WORK

To all members, you are compulsory to attend the meeting as the time and date specified. If not present you will be given penalty.
Please be punctual.       



             Thank you,


          Asri bin Ismail

(Secretary Grab & Go Team)

NOTICE OF FIRST PROJECT MEETING

NOTICE OF 1st PROJECT MEETING

To all Project members,

This is to inform all Project members that there will be a Project Meeting details as follows:
            Date : 10th October 2016
            Time : 12.30 pm
            Venue: Library Tunku Tun Aminah (UTHM)

  AGENDA :
            1. OPENING ADDRESS BY THE CHAIRPERSON
            2. COMMUNITY AWARENESS BUSINESS PROJECT
            3. DISCUSS MORE ABOUT OUR PROJECT IN EFFECTIVE                                      COMMUNICATION
            4. PLANNING THE BUSINESS PROPOSAL

To all members, you are compulsory to attend the meeting as the time and date specified. If not present you will be given penalty.
Please be punctual.       


             Thank you,


          Asri bin Ismail

(Secretary Grab & Go Team)

Saturday, November 12, 2016

Background Of Project

Background of Grab ‘n’ Go Snacks

Introduction

They (snack foods high in fat, sugar and salt) all create reward responses in a part of your brain – you have it, you like it, you want more. So the most important thing, from my perspective, is to plan your snacks and have them with you.” –Professor Tim Gill from the Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise and Eating Disorders at the University of Sydney.
Snacks have been one of the food that are important for us. Be it when we are hungry or watching the television or even at a party, we can always enjoy the snacks. Needless to say, snacks are the kind food that everyone can enjoy in their own perfect way. By referring to the dictionary, snack is a small portion of food or drink or a light meal, especially one eaten between regular meals. It also mean to share or to divide but it is rarely used. In Australian Slang, snack is something easily done.



The Origin of Snack

The word snack came from Middle Dutch or Flemish, “snacken” – to snatch, snap; chatter,which Watkins traces to a hypothetical Germanic imitative root “snu” – forming a word having to do with the nose. The meaning “have a mere bite or morsel, eat a light meal” is first attested 1807.



About Snacks

Snacks come in a variety of forms including packaged snack foods and other processed foods, as well as items made from fresh ingredients at home. Traditionally, snacks are prepared from ingredients commonly available in the home. Often cold cuts, fruit, leftovers, nuts, sandwiches, and the like are used as snacks. The Dagwood sandwich was originally the humorous result of a cartoon character's desire for large snacks. With the spread of convenience stores, packaged snack foods became a significant business. 

Snack foods are typically designed to be portable, quick, and satisfying. Processed snack foods, as one form of convenience food, are designed to be less perishable, more durable, and more portable than prepared foods. They often contain substantial amounts of sweeteners, preservatives, and appealing ingredients such as chocolate, peanuts, and specially-designed flavors (such as flavored potato chips). Beverages, such as coffee, are not generally considered snacks though they may be consumed along with or in lieu of snack foods.

Healthy snacks include those that have significant vitamins, are low in saturated fat and added sugars, and have a low sodium content. Examples of healthy snacks include:
  •         Fruits and vegetables
  •         Foods that have whole grains
  •         Nuts and seeds



Government bodies like Health Canada are recommending that people make a conscious effort to eat healthier, natural snacks such as fruit, vegetables, nuts and cereal grains while avoiding high-calorie, low-nutrient junk food. A 2010 study showed that children in the United States snacked on average six times per day, approximately twice as often as American children in the 1970s. This represents consumption of roughly 570 calories more per day than U.S. children consumed in the 1970s.

A Tufts University, Department of Psychology empirical study titled, "Effect of an afternoon confectionery snack on cognitive processes critical to learning" found that a consumption of a confectionery snack in the afternoon improved spatial memory in the study's sample group, but in the area of attention performance had a mixed effect.


Potato chips are a predominant part of the snack food market in Western countries. The global potato chip market generated total revenues of US$16.49 billion in 2005. This accounted for 35.5% of the total savory snacks market in that year ($46.1 billion). The earliest known recipe for potato chips is in William Kitchiner's cookbook The Cook's Oracle, first published in 1817, which was a bestseller in England and the United States.

The 1822 edition's version of recipe 104 is called "Potatoes fried in Slices or Shavings" and reads "peel large potatoes, slice them about a quarter of an inch thick, or cut them in shavings round and round, as you would peel a lemon; dry them well in a clean cloth, and fry them in lard or dripping". Generally, nowadays crisps and chips include savory snack products made from not just potato, but also corn, tapioca, or other cereals, and root vegetables.





DETAILS OF PRODUCT


                  Chips are the most popular variety of snacks on various occasions. Besides being salty, spicy or flavoured, consumer preference is always for fresh quality. Potato and banana chips are popular processed food items resulting in substantial value-addition.

                  Chips were commonly prepared in someone's kitchen and then delivered immediately to stores and restaurants, or sold on the street.They were made from potatoes that had been cooked, mashed, dehydrated, reconstituted into dough, and cut into uniform pieces. Local manufacturer also has focused on traditional chip such as salty cassava chips, sweet potato chips, tapioca chip and banana chip. 

                   Due to concern of healthy, well-being and ethnic food product, the amount of constipation of banana chip in Malaysia seems to grow. Banana chip consist of banana figs, sweet banana chip and savoury banana chip.This kind of chips are very well established and simple. It involves visual inspection and sorting of damaged potatoes and bananas and washing them in water. 

               Then they are peeled and trimmed before slicing or cutting them to the required size. Then they are once again washed and dried. They are then fried and either salt or other spices/flavours are mixed homogenously. After cooling them, they are packed in pouches or plastic bags. A typical process flow chart is as under;

1. Washing, sorting and Peeling of potatoes and bananasThe potatoes/bananas are then passed through a conveyor where they are de-stoned and then peeled.The peeled potatoes/bananas are then washed with cold water.

2.         Slicing/ Cutting

Slice the banana/potatoes into thin slices. Make sure they're all fairly 
much the same slice width, to ensure even cooking.

3.  Frying

Heat the oil. Drop slices in the pan to deep fry.
Repeat until all slices have been fried.

4.  Seasoning
Flavour is added with seasoning, salted, and passed through a 
conveyor belt so as to drain excess oil. The chips are then cooled and sorted.

6.    Packaging
Packed in pouches or plastic bags and distributed to local stores.

BUDGET






Problem Statement


                     We want to encourage people to donate to charity while buying our scrumptious mixture of chips that they personally choose from.

                     Consumption of snacks has become a trend in Malaysia. Snack food provides a feeling of convenience and quick health enhancer. The snack food includes of potato chips, corn chips, sandwiches, pretzels and many more. The local produced savoury snacks are chips and Keropok. The demand for snack food is increasing. While in university, students have plenty of options to get snacks in between classes.The competitions between stalls will be increase which have lower prices and better quality of food. However, posters work well. We will distribute posters and brochures with big pictures of our products, the location we were selling at and our prices to attract students to come to our stalls.

                    Other than there is lots of stores and bazaar around Parit Raja and BatuPahat that sell varieties of chips with different range of flavour, tastes and prices to buy from. Some will charge with high price and some will give us good bargains. Therefore, we must be carefully roam around Parit Raja area and select the shop that sells affordable and more choices of chips. This will keep our budget under control.

WHO WE ARE


Hai everyone

We are from GRAB & GO Team & we are students of Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). This blog was made to show our journey of our business project from start untill the end.  This business project  we conducted in UTHM was a part of the syllabus in ‘Effective Communication’ course.

List of members:
  1. Ms Aini Syahirah Sobri
  2. Ms Syazana Ahmad NizarMs Athilia Abdullah
  3. Ms Athilia Abdullah
  4. Ms Inda Lastari Ismail
  5. Mr Asri bin Ismail


"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much." --Helen Keller




TEAM MASCOT

Our team  logos are intended to be the "face" of our group: They are graphical displays of a our team  unique identity, and through colors and fonts and images that provide essential information about a team that allows customers to identify with the team's core brand. Logos are also a shorthand way of referring to the team in advertising and marketing some product and  also provide point for the various fonts, colors and design choices in all other business marketing materials.

Word of Grab & Go : means customer just grab any chips that they want and go without waiting for a long time

Red colour : Red means an attractive, energetic and powerful ( we as a team)

Yellow Colour : Yellow is a warm colour that invokes the feeling of happiness, warmth and relaxation (when eating the chips

Green colour : Green is mainly used to represent friendly ( when serve customer)

Black Colour : Represents Authority, Power, Mystery, Boldness, Elegance and Sophistication

ORGANIZATION CHART


Saturday, November 5, 2016

NOTICE OF MEETING

NOTICE OF MEETING

To all Project members,
1.This is to inform all Project members that there will be a Project Meeting details as follows:
            Date : 31 October 2016
            Time : 2.00 pm - 3.30 pm
            Venue: Library Tunku Tun Aminah (UTHM)

2. MEETING AGENDA :
            1.1  Discuss where suitable chip supplier /factory in area Parit Raja.
            1.2  Design of blog, flyers, pamphlet .
            1.3  Discuss progress work.

3.To all members, you are compulsory to attend the meeting as the time and date specified. If not present you will be given penalty.
Please be punctual.


Thank you,

Aini Syahirah Sobri
(Chairman of the group)



Minutes of 2nd Project meeting

Minutes of 2nd Project meeting 

No. 2 Year 2016

Date      : 17th October 2016 
Time : 10 AM
Venue : UTHM Library

PRESENT
AiniSyahirah Bt. Sobri (Chairperson)
Athilia Bt. Abdullah
IndaLastari Bt. Ismail
Syazana Bt. Ahmad Nizar
Asri Bin Ismail (Secretary)


1.0  OPENING ADDRESS BY CHAAIRPERSON
1.1  The Chairperson welcomed everyone in the group.
1.2  The Chairperson acknowledged the group that the main goal of the day’s meeting was to discuss about the approach for the proposed project.



2.0  OPENING ADDRESS BY THE CHAIRPERSON
2.1  After discussing among the group, we have decided to sell chips of various choices.



3.0  MATTERS ARISING
3.1  Finding a supplier for the chips and the packaging material.
3.2  The type of chips and packaging amounts.
3.3  Design of the packaging.
3.4  Way of approaching to sell the product.


4.0  PROJECT TITTLE
4.1  Grab ‘n’ Go Chips


5.0  ACTIVITY
5.1  After a moment of brainstorming, the group name was picked by leader Athilia as “Wandering Minds”
5.2  The price range of the product were discussed and it is going to be between RM 1.00 to RM 1.50.



6.0  OTHER MATTERS
6.1  The Chairperson advised everyone to read the format of minutes of meeting from the schoology and various source in the Internet.
6.2  The Chairperson also reminded us that there would be a quiz held in class afterward.



7.0  CONCLUSIONS
7.1  The group name was decided as “Wandering Minds”
7.2  Price of the product is at RM 1.00 to RM 1.50.
7.3  The leader Athilia was informed that the next meeting would be held next week.
7.4  The meeting was postponed at 10:40 am.













Prepared by,                                                                                                 Date: 17th October 2016


(Asri Bin Ismail)

Secretary

Minutes of 1st Project Meeting

Minutes of 1st Project Meeting

   No. 1 Year 2016

Date      : 10th October  2016
Time      : 12:30 PM                                  
Venue   : UTHM Library

Present
AiniSyahirah Bt. Sobri (Chairperson)
Athilia Bt. Abdullah
IndaLastari Bt. Ismail
Syazana Bt. Ahmad Nizar
Asri Bin Ismail (Secretary)

1.0  OPENING ADDRESS BY CHAIRPERSON
1.1  The Chairperson welcomed everyone in the group.
1.2  The Chairperson directed everyone to come up with ideas for the project.




2.0  AGENDA
2.1  Venue
2.1.1        The Chairperson opened to discuss on the place for the business proposal.
2.1.2        The Chairperson instructed that the agenda of the very meeting was to dispute the business proposal for the course UWB10202.


2.2  Discussion
2.2.1        We agreed to appoint Athilia as our leader of the project.
2.2.2        After challenging our minds, we came up with a group tittle.
2.2.3        Leader, Athilia finally decided that we are going to sell chips of variation.




3.0  OTHER MATTERS
3.1  The Chairperson reminded the group of the upcoming meet up on 17th October 2016.
3.2  The Chairperson also asked everyone to look up the minutes of meeting format in schoology.




4.0  CONCLUSIONS
4.1  Leader Athilia was informed that the group meeting would be held again next week.
4.2  The meeting was postponed at 2:00 pm.
4.3  Everyone agreed that the chips variations is the best business project.





















Prepared by:                                                                                                    Date: 10th October 2016

(Asri Bin Ismail)

Secretary