It's about 100 days since we started running our snacks kiosks at The Future Of Us Exhibition, that incidentally is the grand finale to the #SG50 celebrations.
We're honoured to have been part of the opening at the Marina Bay Countdown 2015 that welcomed SG50, and the closing at The Future of Us Exhibition at Gardens By the Bay.
'Singapore Snacks' at The Future of Us was a steep learning curve for us. We had thought it was easy to put together food kiosks that had to meet certain socio-cultural, requirements and also our profit objective.
We were wrong.
The brainstorming (occasionally known as fantasizing) part is easy. Procurement, signing contracts with suppliers for this 100 day event is easy. The most difficult part is the human factor.
Human factors include ourselves, our staff, people we work with, our customers and also their customers. We've had to deal with both internal and external complaints and feedback, not to mention our own energy levels during the lull periods. We've also had to deal with gaps in both internal and external communications - this happens when there are many people involved..
'You say, I say, who confirm? So don't do...'
It was a struggle - our team had to drag ourselves to work every day and put on happy faces when we sell ice-cream, hot dogs, curry puffs, steam corn kernels,drinks and buns. The only days when we took time off was when we were not in the right physical state to handle food for sales.
Thankfully, all this will come to an end tomorrow, as we see the light at the end of the tunnel (hooray!)
Secretly, we're patting ourselves on our back. After all, we did survive this 100 day event, whilst running our regular weekend, fortnight, and other special editions, and even managed to negotiate for maybe a couple of new sites, revamped our website, restructured our business and create new partnerships.
And we've become pretty good at running a hot dog stand too! ;)
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