Blog 17- Interview 3 Reflction

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  

• The most important thing I learned from this interview are a managers point of view on the top steps to maintaining a successful restaurant. Which were, Positive attitude, listen to the customers and keep up to date with records. I feel like this part helped me come up with some more potential answers for my essential question. 

2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?

• I feel like my questions were a bit more thorough this time around especially because ten questions is a lot, so I had to do some deep thinking in regards to which questions I should ask. I also feel like i have gotten more comfortable interviewing people. I don't feel as awkward as I did the first time and I enjoy listening to the answers and coming up with follow up questions or adding in my own bit of commentary. 

Link to interview:

https://soundcloud.com/michelle-985280227/interview-3

Blog 16: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
I plan on finding a more in depth understanding for my answer to my essential question, "How can a manager ensure a successful start-up restaurant?". Since my answer is advertisement I want to create a website for a restaurant based on the restaurant that I came up with in my business plan. Along with that I would like to create a commercial, also based on the business plan.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
The web page will be thoroughly examined and I will do my best to assure that all features work properly, I could take pictures of the progress I make each day, I will also work on the website when I'm with my mentor and she can sign off the hours that it took me to complete the website. As for the commercial I could include rough draft and final draft of the commercials script, and include rough cuts and other clips from recording dates.

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
Since the answer for my EQ is advertisement, the website creation will help me understand the different colors and information that need to be on a restaurants web page in order to get the potential consumers attention. I would have to do a lot more research on restaurant blogs and web pages to see what they include. As for the commercial, it will help me come up with a creative way to connect with my consumers and get them to be interested in what I'm attempting to sell them.

4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oHiF91gV31AEcXN9MwqqF6hh1O_JhJq1rmQbWmNjnxM/edit?usp=sharing

Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) I, Michelle Villasenor, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 31 hours of work.
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
• There were actually multiple sources here is a link to all of them, they are in MLA format: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b6i0xJCTbaZ1WHIwErY_TWCt1u8GcCFeQFLchcrK7Bw/edit?usp=sharing 
• (d) I completed an entire business plan based on a restaurant concept of my choosing. I chose to use a vegan restaurant and named it "Agent Vegan" I made the business plan as legitimate as I could, I had to look fro averages when summing up costs for some materials but other than that the business plan is very legitimate. 
• Below is my business plan: 
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PQebk3rc3N3PhGQVga54f9P78WVTpgDLbjopkItAW1U/edit?usp=sharing
• Below is my mini reflection and title page with my resources:
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I8cgwnIsYEnBuavLTXMvYnLB6c_jINoQcR1uKxQFf0A/edit?usp=sharing
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• INTERPRETIVE 
  I actually showed the log of the full 31 hours of work that I did and since I completed my business plan with my mentor I had her sign it as evidence. Below is my independent component log:
  
• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oHiF91gV31AEcXN9MwqqF6hh1O_JhJq1rmQbWmNjnxM/edit?usp=sharing
• APPLIED
  This component helped me better understand the entire foundation of what it takes to run a restaurant. There were many different segments within the business plan from financials as in stating assets and payroll to what forms of advertisement are you going to use. I definitely received a way more in depth understanding of a restaurant start- up.

Lesson 2 Reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

I was most proud of my answer, I feel very confident with the answer I chose fro my essential question, "How can a manager ensure a successful start-up restaurant?". I feel like advertisement was a good way to go and I was able to add in some funny advertisement pictures to get a couple of laughs. 

2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

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     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

I feel like I used appropriate volume and my hook was a bit entertaining and then I explained how the connected with my topic. I also gave two sources and used my mentor to explain an example. I also believe that my activity resonated well with the answer to my essential question, and my debrief worked well with the lesson in the activity. 

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

My answer worked for me and my mentor and all of the sources that we have had to study over the past six months definitely helped me conclude my answer. I feel like my hooked worked relatively well too, I feel like it caught most of the viewers attention and I was able to do a proper debrief afterwards,

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2? 

I feel as though my activity could have gone better, I I could turn back time I would have probably had more specific instructions and added a target audience along with the concept of the restaurant.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

I feel like my answer two is going to be the business plan, my independent component is actually me creating a business plan and through the past few months of working on it, I've found a lot of relative importance in the whole creation process of the business plan. 

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 13: 10 Hour Mentorship Check in

1. Where are you doing your mentorship?

I am doing my mentorship with my aunt, Karina Reel usually in her home office. At times we do go out to observe different possible locations for her specific restaurant start up or we talk to some people who can help her perfect her personal recipe. 

2. Who is your contact? What makes this person an expert? 

My contact would be Karina Reel she has has the appropriate degrees to have a start up with business administration and finance major. She has also previously had her own catering company in the past. 

3. How many hours have you done during the school year? 

I have done a total of twenty-five hours of mentorship during the school year.

4. Succinctly summarize what you did, how well you and your mentor work together, and how you plan to complete the remaining hours? 

My mentor and I sometimes  go out and do some investigation on different restaurants/fast food places and right down the "do' and dont's". I also sometimes organize my mentors papers and she asks me to take a look at her final business plan we actually went through a couple of names, which was funny because we were so set on "Yummies" in the beginning but with time that changed. My mentor and I have gotten very close over the days that we have been working together, it's fun and interesting to brainstorm with her. I plan on continuing my work with her by this summer she will hopefully have her business up. 

Blog 12- Holiday Project Update

*Getting back to school, time to put my grr face on*

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you do over the break with your senior project?

I actually continued to work on my independent component during my "me times" when I wasn't spending time with my family. I got to finish up the executive summary part of my business plan although technically that is something that is saved for last, I already had a general idea of what I wanted in a restaurant, so I can just change up some parts as I continue on completing my business plan. I also got to spend some more time with my mentor, we had some brief talks about my business plan. 

2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why?  What was the source of what you learned?

The most important thing I learned is that time and structure is everything. I had actually started off my business plan thinking I was just going write about a simple Italian restaurant but then I started thinking more about perhaps making it a bit more new, something more challenging and I started thinking about a vegan only restaurant, I started thinking about the different costs since vegetables and other vegan dietary substances do actually cost more than pastas. I also started thinking about how many people are actually interested in vegan food, I want to be able to reach a broader range of customers. How can I convince other perhaps non-vegans to give my restaurant a try? Hopefully this will be more of a challenge and so far I'm having fun with it. 

3.  Your third interview will be a 10 question interview related to possible answers for your EQ. Who do you plan to talk to and why?

I actually plan to talk to one of my friends uncles, she has two uncle's that own a Peruvian restaurant if I recall correctly, she offered to help me get an interview with them. I'm hoping since they are two restaurant owning people they can give me an honest report on what it is like for them to run their restaurant.