First Milk Tea Selling Event

The milk tea project is a GC project that our GC came up with last year. Since it is the first enterprise price that involves food product for a GC in our school, the process to get the qualification to sell is everlasting. However, after various negotiations with the service department and testing in our group, we finally did the first selling event of our self-made milk tea on the 14th of February 2020.

Our GC focuses on raising funds and awareness for an NGO based in China called the New Hope Foundation which provides education and care to abandoned young children and most of them have some level of disability which is the main reason for them to be abandoned by their parents. Compare to other GC, it is relatively harder for us to have our own GC product because our NGO doesn’t really have any output other than recovered children. So we came up with self-made milk tea as we believe that it will have a large potential customer group in the school which will bring more funds and awareness to our GC.

The milk tea is pre-made the day before the selling event because of the long duration of making them. Although there are a few free recipes online, adjusting the flavor of our milk tea is a really time-consuming process to go through. It took us 4-5 times of adjustment to find the ideal sweetness in order to make it welcoming in school.

The selling event took place at the school canteen at lunchtime, the timing and location make our shop easily accessible to our intended consumers we are looking for some fresh drinks after lunch. In fact, our milk tea product really met the taste of our customers, the milk tea turns out to be quite popular as around 2L of milk tea got sold out in a 1-hour lunchtime. Alongside with the milk tea, we also had dumplings at the event as well. But, not as lucky as the milk tea, the dumplings didn’t do too well for various reasons.

During the selling process, we distributed the food using reusable cups and dishes from the school canteen to make sure there was no plastic wastes produced in our sale. Also, our milk tea product is definitely a healthy choice because all the ingredients and making processes are absolutely environmentally friendly and hygienic which is a big selling point for our product.

The event was overall a successful event for our GC and achieved the goals that we set it up for. Nevertheless, there are still several aspects that we need to take account of as our group reflects after the selling has ended in future selling events like this. In the preparation phase, we think having a fixed recipe of the ingredients to make the ideal taste is consequential as resources will be wasted and the product won’t meet customers’ expectations if we don’t have a fixed good taste to our product. In the selling phase, the roles of different people over the counter should be articulated clearer before the selling process definitely cannot be considered organized. In the phase of cleaning up, the used cups and dishes should be washed when they are returned because it will dissipate the time of students we volunteered to the event after the selling is over to clean up while they are trying to rush to class.

Overall, the selling event went really well this time. And we are looking to achieve further success to raise funds and awareness for our NGO and the abandoned children especially the ones under their protection.