Showing posts with label Restaurant wars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Restaurant wars. Show all posts

Thursday, April 1, 2010

The War is OVER!

Restaurant Wars was fun, awesome, a ton of work, and stressful!  It was great but I am glad that it's over.  

The kids did a great job setting up their stations and bringing in food samples.  We had everything from cookies, to BLT's, to smoothies, to venison (I'm not kidding)!  I don't think many teachers have the experience of having a student grill venison in her classroom -it was intense!
The investors came to judge and the kids did a tremendous job pitching their idea. I was really proud of them. I was also grateful to the principal and vice principals for coming up and checking out the stations all day long.  I know that means a lot to the kids when their hard work is noticed by their teachers and administrators. 

Here are a few pictures:
Some delicious cupcakes waiting to be tasted!


Potato skins and wings.


Very professional looking menus. 


A restaurant design where the tables slowly rotate so guests can get a view of New York City!

An amazing design concept. (I wish you could see the drawings!) They incorporated a layout, tile, paint and flooring examples and decor examples.  Excellent!


Cake promoting a restaurant name!

AND...
This is what my room looked like for most of the day:



We were packed into the room but everyone was wonderful and the day was a great success!  

Until next year.... :)  

Hope everyone has a great spring break!




Thursday, March 25, 2010

Restaurant Wars are coming!

You may have noticed that your children have been spending time looking up recipes, calculating cost analysis, and asking if they can borrow your crock pot.  Don't worry they are simply preparing for the great, the fun, the exciting, RESTAURANT WARS!

Students have been working in groups to create a restaurant that they feel would fit well in our town.  They had to come up with recipes, food shop, complete cost analysis, create a logo, menu (where the prices show profit), write an elevator pitch to present to future investors, and create a restaurant design.  

They have been working hard and next Wednesday, March 31st they will hold their expo where future "investors" will come and see what they've done.  They will be judged on the work they've done and on how they present their food samples, the pitch, and their expo stand.  

I'm so excited to see how it goes.  The kids are loving it and have come up with some really great restaurant ideas!