Blog 20: Interview 4 Preparation

1. Who do you plan to interview? What is this persons area of expertise? 

I'm planning on interviewing Enrique Kina, he is the owner of Pollos Kikiryki restraurant. 

2. Post 20 open ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. Your focus should be finding answers to your EQ. 

1. What is your definition of success?

2. What would you say was your best source of advertisement when your restaurant was just starting out? 

3. When did you know that your restaurant was going to make it? 

4. How did you get more and more people interested in your restaurant? Or did you just let your food do the talking? 

5. How can a manger ensure a successful restaurant start up?

6. What was the most helpful segment from your business plan?

7. Would you say that your restaurant went relatively the same direction as your business plan?

8. Why did you choose this location? What factors contributed to your final location decision?

9. Did you do a lot of research on restaurant start ups before actually starting a restaurant?

10. Why did you choose this type of restaurant? Like the food concept?

11. Would you say your location has held your restaurant back or benefitted it?

12. If you were to open your restaurant in another location where would it be? Why?

13. Would you say your restaurant is at the level of success you want it to be at as of now?

14. Typically, do you spend a lot on advertisement for your reataurant?

15. Describe a perfect day in your restaurant.

16. What do you do to get some advertisement on a new dish?

17. In what ways has your restaurant succeeded?

18. Was your restaurant generally slow in the beginning? Or faster? Why do you think so? 

19. What were some tough parts of restaurant management?

20. Describe some milestones your restaurant has gone through. 

Blog 14: Third Interview Preparation: How can a manager ensure a successful start-up restaurant?

*Time to listen and find some answers* *The gif is from the movie The Interview and James Franco is in the middle of an interview* *heh*

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?

I'm planning on Interviewing Enrique Kina, he is the owner of Pollos Kikiryki restaurant.

2.  Verify that you have called your interviewee to schedule an interview.  What is the date and time of the interview?

I still haven't set a date with the actual interviewee but I had asked one of my peers(who is the owners niece) if he would be okay with an interview and she said yes. Now I am planning on setting a date over the weekend.

3.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you find research resources that would help to answer the EQ.

What is the most important quality a start up restaurant must have in order to ensure success?

4.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you think about other useful activities you might do to help you answer the EQ (IC2, possible experts to talk to, etc).

Do you happen to know any other successful restaurant owners, any that might have helped you along your start up journey?

5.  Phrase two open-ended questions that help you to understand your interviewee's perspective on an aspect of your EQ. 

1. When did you know that you're restaurant was going to make it?

2. How did you get more and more people interested in your restaurant? Did you do self advertisement? Or did you just let your food do the talking?

3. How can a manager ensure a successful start-up restaurant?

Blog 7 - Second Interview Preparation

1.  Who is your mentor and where do they work?  If their workplace does not reflect their expertise, what makes them an expert? 

My mentor is Karina Reel and she currently works at UEI College working with students and other employees. At this point her workplace doesn't reflect her expertise. And as she sees it, it doesn't reflect her actual potential either. She went to Cal Poly and studied business administration with a finance major in order to become an entrepreneur. She had started working at UEI when she was younger and got started receiving constant promotions until she worked her way up to the limit and now she feels like she's ready to go ahead and take on her original life plan to start her restaurant. So far she's done her best to thoroughly explain to me the basic "mechanics" of business start ups and I feel like she is passing on her knowledge to the best of her ability. I can see the dedication. 

2.  What five questions will you ask them about their background?

1. What was one of the most important things you would say you learned from you finance major?

2.  Have you ever tried doing something similar to this restaurant start up in the past?

3. What first sparked your interest for the field of business administartion?

4. What are some other classes you took back in college that you would say helped you with planning a business?

5. If you were given the opportunity, would you go back in time and work on starting up this restaurant earlier?