The café, named Mosh Cafe by the Café Studies students at Guilford Young College (GYC), had its soft opening today, with invited family and friends attending. Rita was amongst the lucky invited customers.

The café is one of the many Young Achievement Australia (YAA) businesses run within schools and colleges round Australia.

The idea is that any school or college think up a do-able and viable business which some students are interested in participating in, hands-on, and which will make money. The students learn the intricacies of writing a Business Plan; naming and registering the business; establishing the business bank account and learning about what is involved in financial transactions relevant to businesses; marketing their business; team work, as they get the business planned and started; selling shares in the business to family and friends; running their weekly board meeting, and the list goes on.

Normally, food-related ventures are not encouraged, but as GYC already had the construction of a commercial kitchen onsite underway, this café venture was permitted, so the students have been working their butts off, training to run all aspects of their café, from front of house, to kitchen, to administration.

All 16 students in the class have varying degrees of enthusiasm, talent and skills. Rita was invited, at the outset, to mentor the class, so has attended their class every week for the past 4 months.

The culmination was todays soft opening. Rita was so tense, and itching to jump up and help out, but that would defeat the whole purpose of it being a training exercise for these up and coming young entrepreneurs, so she sat very firmly on her hands and watched intently as they went about their business.

They kicked arse! I was so proud of them. I know Im not their mum, but I felt today like all 16 of my kids were being put through their paces.

Naturally there were many glitches, but they were minor in the scheme of things. Overall these kids did SO well.

The café will open every Thursday lunch time, for the students and their families, if they want to come along. It will be wound up in October, and all will then be deconstructed.

The nett result will be a group of young people extremely well versed in most aspects of business, and specifically hospitality. They should have the right attitude for work in the industry, and be well aware of the reasons why we do many of the things we do in hospitality. They will be aware of customer service. They are already looking at restaurants and cafes they go to through totally different eyes.

Last weekend, their teacher Aaron took them to Melbourne. They lunched at Fifteen (the Jamie Oliver restaurant), they dinnered at Vue de Monde. They experienced many sights that many of us will never get round to experiencing. They had a wow of a time. Thats what I call a REAL Café Studies class!

These are young people anyone should be proud to have on staff. I would employ any of them.

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2. Price. If there was ever an instance of pure self-destructive dietary temptation, it has been embodied in one thing: the ever-present-well-lit-open-24-hours-drive-thru menu. Double-cheeseburger for .99 cents at 4AM, and a taco? Without even having to sit upright in my SUV? Are you kidding me? Ill take 3! And a shake and fries too? Good lord how can I NOT buy that?
It is a miracle that you cannot buy cigarettes at a fast food drive thru windows. No really - a true Miracle, as in someone oughta alert the Vatican. Whatever group of senators and congress-folk that passed that law may well have surpassed Mother Theresa in lives saved.
3. Taste. Now while some would disagree that for a set of us, fast food tastes, well, pretty dang good, think about it for a couple of seconds and youll see why I fall in the tastes good camp: Big chain fast food corporations pay tens of millions of dollars to figure out what taste, texture, and temperature combination will be more than just mildly non-offensive; the foodish items have to be so taste-filled and jolly good that an otherwise reasonable person will overlook every detail on where that combination of ingredients came from (and what it started out as), how far its traveled (and what rat nibbled on it), whos touched it, dropped it, sneezed on it, reconstituted it, microwaved the heck out of it, then wrapped it in a container that will take 400 years to dissipate into the water table.
Your food product better be darn good to get us to forget all that.
That said, I am retraining my tastes, and it turns out that the real thing - you know, real food - actually tastes MUCH better. Still doesnt mean that super sugar taste isnt sweet.
If I had that job, the one where you decide what goes on the 99-cent menu, I would already have it licked.
When asked how to improve the salability of an item, I would simply say, Well thats easy, Mr. Burns, sir! Add more cheap sugar substitute of course, preferably from a corn base, and a whole bunch of salt! Throw in some preservatives and cheap coloring, wrap it in a value menu, and youve got yourself the next McRib runaway smash hit! And the kidsll LOVE it!
I would be senior management material.

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Maria Karalis, RD, CSR, LD takes us to eat in the fast food world. Putting aside the salad bar there isn't much good to be said about the options at the main burger chains - get a plain burger at McDonald's? I understand that Maria is trying to find some middle ground and to be realistic because clearly a lot of people eat at these places - including a lot of people on dialysis - but this is not renal healthy food.
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