So within our GC, we are starting an initiative to sell milk tea. We haven’t really done much this year in terms of events and raising money. Perhaps we didn’t have as much opportunity of because of the financial restraints but we are in the midst of setting up a business for milk tea. We probably won’t have time to start selling this school year but we are trying to set up everything so that the business can begin right away in the beginning of next year.

Some challenges we are facing right now is the cost and the sustainability. Since our school is a strong supporter and enforcer of keeping our campus as sustainable as possible. The process of making milk tea is not exactly sustainable. All the ingredients of sugar, milk and tea come in packets but as long as all these have a disposal plan that is recyclable we will be okay. But we did have to spend some time finding ingredients that achieved these requirements. The cost however of finding better ingredients goes sky high. Therefore we had to find a compromise between better taste and high cost. Also when serving the milk tea, cups had to be reusable so no plastic anything. Luckily Zero Waste is a college service that provides reusable cups that they wash so that is pretty perfect.

We conducted a taste testing within our GC and the one I liked was the most expensive so that definitely was a “no” but we did find one that was pretty good. We’re going to conduct another taste testing on the plaza having the rest of the school try it and give us feedback. From this, we will improve our milk tea business and hopefully become pretty successful in the school.