Saturday, June 11, 2016

Idea Napkin Number 1


  1. I am a 4th year college student. I began cooking for myself when I was 15 and I became a vegetarian, and my mother only consented to my eating habit change if I agreed to learn to cook my own dinners. When I came to college and returned to eating meat, I had a whole repertoire of meals and continued to cook for myself. The past two years I have prepped my meals for myself weekly, since it really cuts down on total cooking time. I see this meal prep business fitting really nicely into my current routine - I'd cook the weekly meals for customers at the same time I cook my own.
  2. I'm offering weekly, fully prepared meals at low prices.
  3. I'm offering these meals to college students who do not have the time, money, or knowledge to cook their own food.
  4. Potential customers need this service because it is a cheap way to get actually healthy food daily without having to do any of the prep work themselves. 
  5. There is no other college-kid-affordable meal prep service in Gainesville - the only services are either a fully vegan (and expensive) meal service or paleo diet/fitness-oriented services (also expensive)
I believe that my who/what/why's fit together quite well. I think I have the abilities to provide meals for students who have issues cooking their own food, and I have found that there are plenty of students with some form of that problem. The issue I am having is the pricing of meals, to keep them affordable enough for college students but expensive enough for me to make a reasonable profit.

5 comments:

  1. Hi Sarah, I really like your idea. I think that it can go a long way, and although this is just an "idea napkin" you've given some immense thought to your innovation and I think you could go far with this.

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  2. Hey Sarah! I think this idea would really benefit college students that are looking to eat healthy but do not have the time to prepare that type of food for themselves. My friend goes to FSU and they have a similar company where it is a healthy food company but very pricy. This is where I find your idea might be hard to execute effectively. Preparing healthy food is generally expensive and then you want the proper margins to make a profit. If you are able to create a business like this with an affordable price tag it could really go far!

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  3. I love your idea! I have seen different companies with programs similar to yours and something local and low cost that also provides fresh food would definitely be something students would be interested in. Great job! I look forward to following your concept as it grows!

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  4. This is an amazing idea! Especially for busy college students or people that work crazy hours or even just lazy people. Anyone could use this service, I definitely would. If you have an option for delivery too that would be awesome. I love this idea! Great job!

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  5. I would definitely use this if it was priced right. I don't really know how to cook, and peanut butter sandwiches get old pretty fast. I think if you cooked in big bulks it shouldn't cost that much money either, so I definitely see this being feasible. Would people have options on which meals they wanted? If so it might be more difficult than if you just mass produced the same product to everyone.

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