Burger Day Launch 1st Day

The vegetarian burger event was launch yesterday at the RI school canteen. We had a supply of 300 burgers by VSS ( Vegetarian Society Singapore ). On that day morning, no announcement was made during the assembly due to some technical problem, which is mentioned by the carrot group, that Mr. Teo rejected it. But during the first recess, the selling of the burger was actually quite a success despite lacking of announcement, the stall sold about 100+ burgers. During the second recess, we also sold 100+ burgers. And we sold some during lunch time. This project is quite a success because of all the help of the teams, teacher mentor's guidance and VSS for their support. The students and school is also supportive to our project. Besides that, there were also press from 联合早报 and 联合晚报. Kah Wah was the representative from our group. He went there around 10.45 to meet up with the press. During the second recess, the press eventually met up with all the group members. We took photos and being asked some question about the burger.

Although the burger launch event is quite a successful one, but one of our plans was not executed because the announcement was actually not made during that day. The announcement was actually made on last thursday, 9th of April, but it was not that clear because we actually do not have a assembly because it was drizzling that morning. So, we only got to listen to the announcement in class but it was not that effective due to the noisiness of the class. So, we had decided that we use the quiz for other purposes in the future like putting them in the vegetarian day thingy.

Here are some feedbacks from the fellow Raffles Institution students :

Yuan Jing : I think that the burger is very nice, and it is cheap too. The mushroom in the burger doesn't taste like one, it taste like meat. Actually I think that this burger can replace those meat burgers on sale. I actually bought 4 burgers today, and I hope for more......

Jae Li : I think that this burger is nice. The price is cheap, that's what i think that it is attacting the people to buy it. But it tastes great though.....

Unknown Sec 2 student : I think that the price of the burger is very cheap, but if the price returns to 1.60, I think nobody will buy it because it is not worth it as meat burger is cheaper by 10cents and it is more filling. But, i think the burger is fine.

Although most of the feedbacks is showing a good sign, but actually some of the pupils think that the burger is not worth the price. In our group's opinion, the students were actually attracted by the price, they actually didn't think about anything else besides the price. They don't even care about what is inside the burger. So, we conclude that maybe people nowadays buy and eat things base on their price, but not the healthiness and environmental-friendliness of the food. On the other hand, we think that the burger's taste is great, it will actually continue to be a popular food in the canteen as most people now is buying it frequently, people actually buy 2-4 burgers each. The demand for it was high, so we think it is quite a good sign. But we felt that we need to improve on the publication side because the quiz part actually did not work because of poor publicity.