Milk&Toast

The night before we opened we worked all day building the shop and finishing the business plan. That's Boss, Nam (facing), and Nut.

For the past two weeks my time has been consumed by working at the Milk&Toast shop in the business faculty. The business idea was conceived by the Thai members of our group Boss, Nam, and Nut and is modeled after a popular desert food available at street vendors shops throughout Thailand. We had to write a business plan for our business (its a fun read at 37 pages, the Thai version is 80 pages). We turned the business plan in on Monday July 13th and have been running the shop everyday since. Our last day is this Friday and I will surely be reporting our profits as soon as I find out. I do know that the first day we made roughly 1,600 Baht ($48) and the second day we made about 1,800 Baht ($56).

The food is delicious. We butter one side of a thick piece of white bread and then grill it. Then we cut it into nine pieces and top it off with a flavor of the customers choosing. We have, in order of popularity, sweet milk (which is really sweet and condensed milk), chocolate, Thai green custard, and strawberry. We also sell chocolate milk, pink milk (strawberry), and sweet milk (regular milk with sweetener added). Our shop has been a pretty popular desert/snack stop for Thai students on break between classes. I've learned how to say everything that we sell in Thai so that I can take orders more quickly. It saves a lot of time wasted on pointing and gesturing to place an order. Also, I have been proclaimed (only slightly a self-proclamation) the Grill Master!! The grill is my DOMAIN!!! Which I have announced to nearly the entire business faculty.