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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Customer interviews No. 1

My opportunity was to see if people would be willing to go to a restaurant that used locally grown produce, dairy, etc. in their cooking.  I also added in another question to see if the people would be willing to prepare their own food if the restaurant provided the ingredients and equipment needed, so the guests would feel as if they are eating a healthy, home cooked meal.

I believe that anybody has an unmet need for a restaurant that offers healthy, locally produced food.  Especially in modern society, where a healthy diet is growing in popularity.  I comprised three questions to ask my interviewees:
1.  How many times a month would you say you eat out at a sit-down restaurant?

2.  Would you prefer to eat at a restaurant that uses locally bought produce, dairy, etc. and if so, would you be willing to pay slightly more for your meal.

3.  Would you be willing to prepare your own meal if the restaurant provided the ingredients and the equipment? And of course you won't need to worry about clean up.

From the interviews, I learned that people do like the idea of eating at a restaurant that offers locally grown produce as its ingredients.  But only one of my interviewees liked the idea of cooking their own food.  But there still is an opportunity for a restaurant that uses locally grown food.

4 comments:

  1. Hi Dakotah,
    I think you did a very nice job with this assignment. I think your opportunity that you picked was very interesting and I think that it affects many people. I think you questions were well thought out. I would have loved to see the interviews,but I could not find the videos. Your findings were very through and I enjoyed reading them. Here is a list to my website. http://entgabiefleischer.blogspot.com/2016/01/customer-interviews-no1.html

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  2. Hi Gabie,
    Thanks for your comment. Trying to uploading it through Youtube was giving me trouble, but I thought I got it (but obviously I didn't haha). I just tried uploading it again from my computer, so hopefully it works now, although the quality might not be so great. Thanks for the heads up!

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  3. If the video above doesn't work, here is the youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7o3MUj1Ydo

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  4. Hey Dakotah,

    I really enjoyed the idea that you came up with for this blog post! I think you make a lot of very interesting points, and I definitely think you have an original idea. I know that personally I would love to go to a restaurant that used locally grown products. Also, I think that you would have a very large market to target with this type of business. Overall, I think you did a really good job.

    Here’s a link to my post if you want to check it out!
    http://wallacestage.blogspot.com/2016/01/customer-interviews-no-1.html

    Thank you!

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