and I ran my restaurant into the ground! ;o) We did an excercise called CRASE (Cornell Restaurant Administration Simulation Excercise) in which each of 7 groups develop a restaurant in the same market. We decide on menu, pricing, portions, staff and payroll, advertising, etc. (and there are A LOT of etc.s involved!). Each 'quarter' the instructor runs the figures and gives us our market standing. My group's restaurant sucked, but we came in 2nd place in the excercise because he measured the winner by how far off we were in estimating our last quarter net income. Since we knew we sucked and would have a loss, it was easy. hehe :)
I know about 20 people fairly well now, and 3 of them VERY well. This group work really forces you to get to know one another. I worked with Pierre-Edouard who is from France, about 2 hours away from Cergy, Jean-Christophe (JC) also from France, and Ning, from Japan. Today Ning fed us donkey. And cow tendon. Weird. He had little snack packs of the meat, and fed them to me before we had to do our presentation. Don't worry, I didn't ask what part of the animal it was until AFTER I ate it (thanks to all of you for that sound advice!!)
We start another course next week, and another after that. Then it should slow down for a bit. The administration so far has been incredible. Very professional and helpful, yet still light hearted.
For those of you who haven't seen them yet, I've attached photos of my dorm room.
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