The Crazy Burrito Business Evaluation

With our business, The Crazy Burrito, it went very well. We made a profit of $123.50 since we had a sponsorship/donation to create our business of $100, something we did not have to return. Something that went especially well was our cooking process, our three-ingredient combination turned out very well as it came through with flavour and was a simpler part of the market day. Another thing that went well was the packaging of our product later on within the day, we packaged it efficiently and it looked appealing. The combination of tinfoil wrapping and a paper plate made it look more professional. The third part of our day that went well was the set up of our stall. We had appealing signage that advertised our product clearly and the complete set up of the equipment was clean and organised.

There was a large portion of things that didn’t go well on market day and the day before when the ingredients for our product were bought. This went bad as we went wildly over the expected budget that had been organised in the financials. This didn’t matter as we had the sponsorship money however it was largely stressful-inducing. The second part of our day that didn’t go as planned was our advertisements for the burritos. We weren’t given the opportunity to print out our posters the day beforehand and it didn’t help us out with the earlier advertisement for our product. The final part of our day that went wrong was our communications between everyone as to their whereabouts. We lost Natasha multiple times on her adventures around the school to gather the ingredients, and while stressful at the time, the idea of her failing multiple times in a row to open the teacher’s car is very funny.

The biggest change that would’ve been when we got the advertisements out. We had none out before the market day and even then we had only ones on our actual stalls. This would’ve made a difference as it would’ve allowed people to know prices and what money to bring to purchase our product. Another thing we would’ve changed is a minor part but still matters, we bought an entire block of cheese that we didn’t even use a quarter of the cheese. If we had bought less cheese it could’ve saved us money, and although it didn’t matter, it would’ve made me feel better knowing that my financials weren’t too off proportion. The final part only remained for a small portion of the day as we soon improved upon it and it was our packaging. In the beginning, we felt as if we were being rushed by our customer and rushed our packaging, this didn’t leave our packaging looking the best and drove people away from our product.