Muffin Day

Diarmsquid

Has anyone heard of this or doing it? It's a fundraiser for Temple Street Hospital.
Cuisine de France (the sponsers) are selling muffins to Temple Street and Transition year students get the muffins and sell them for a profit. Each student has to sell 96 muffins! And basically, it is supposed to be a kind of mini-company for TY, you appoint directors and certain positions etc.

Our class is doing it and I was wondering if anyone else here was, and how they plan to sell 96 muffins each.

*MmmPie*

Nope, I don't think we're doing it, I'd love to though!









Mmm...muffiny goodness...

PurpleFistMixer

My class are. I am financial director. (Heh)

Stop trying to steal selling ideas. Hiss Arr!

Well, if you can confirm that your selling catchment area is nowhere near mine, then you may have ideas.


I really didn't want to do this minicompany type thing. We already have enough on our plate and I HATE selling things with a passion.

[EDIT: Incidentally, what is your company called? There was a group in my class who wanted to call it 'Muffs 4 U'... Only then we'd get picked up/arrested/both, in a kinky fashion.]

Diarmsquid

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

My class are. I am financial director. (Heh)

Stop trying to steal selling ideas. Hiss Arr!

Well, if you can confirm that your selling catchment area is nowhere near mine, then you may have ideas.


I really didn't want to do this minicompany type thing. We already have enough on our plate and I HATE selling things with a passion.

[EDIT: Incidentally, what is your company called? There was a group in my class who wanted to call it 'Muffs 4 U'... Only then we'd get picked up/arrested/both, in a kinky fashion.]

Wow. You've got a lot done already. We haven't separated ourselves into different groups yet. We just got this woman to come in and talk to us about it so far. Nice name. I think I'll buy shares in Muffs 4 U. With a name like that, how can't it succeed?:v: :v: :v:

PurpleFistMixer

We just elected the directors and from there the different roles. I'm not aware if there's been any more done since I've been in work experience all week.

Well, they went for Muffins 4 U in the end. Which sounds just as stupid but slightly more, uh, PG.

BlueRollingPin

Muffins, eh? I could sure go for one right now - I don't suppose you do home deliveres? I haven't heard anything about a muffin day from my school. Ninety-six per student seems a hell of a lot to sell though ... Not to mention all that temptation.

PurpleFistMixer

Well, we basically have to buy all of the muffins, (yup, that's 192 each) so you'd want to be selling them...
BRP, chances are my school might be selling somewhere near yours, so see what if there are any muffins for sale in January. Then get everyone to buy them.

philologos

I'd love to do this

Diarmsquid

Jakkass wrote:

I'd love to do this

Ask about it in your school. Or you can take part by giving me marketing ideas.

philologos

Diarmsquid wrote:

Ask about it in your school.

too lazy

Diarmsquid

Jakkass wrote:

too lazy

tut tut.
As our wise ruler said before:

Flashling wrote:

Really, as we keep being told, you get as much out of TY as you put in, if you sign up for lots of things, get involved, do the work you're set, it will really benefit you. If, however, you're a lazy bum, the year will be a doss, but you'll forget everything you've learnt, be bored and forget how to study.

It's up to you!

BlueRollingPin

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Well, we basically have to buy all of the muffins, (yup, that's 192 each) so you'd want to be selling them...
BRP, chances are my school might be selling somewhere near yours, so see what if there are any muffins for sale in January. Then get everyone to buy them.

Duely noted. Consider it done!

Apple Gal

Will the muffins not go off???

PurpleFistMixer

The muffins actually haven't been made yet... they make them before the week of selling, i would presume, and ship the required number of boxes off to the distributing schools.

Flashling

But they they'd be horribly stale? Make them yourself, they'll be better.

Apple Gal

Maybe they are fancy ones that don't go stale easily!

BlueRollingPin

It turns out my school is doing the muffin thing! We're selling them for a week. The muffins are packaged Cuisine de France ones, so they have a minimum shelf life of ten days.

Apple Gal

I could do with a muffin now!

Diarmsquid

Our class have woken up to the fact that the muffins are coming soon and we have done just about no preparation.
Now we're in groups and ringing up the places we wanna sell them.
My group is going to take advantage of the fat children at our old primary school and I have to ring the principal.
Hopefully he won't remember the clay models... or the incident at the post box.
We also want to dress someone up in a muffin outfit. Does anyone know where to get a muffin costume?

Roxy*

were doing that too!!!!! coola bula

Apple Gal

Diarmsquid wrote:

We also want to dress someone up in a muffin outfit. Does anyone know where to get a muffin costume?

That would be so so cool! Ya should make it out of cardboard!

Diarmsquid

How?
You could make the paper wrapper bit that you can eat out of cardboard, but what about the muffin bit itself? That out of cardboard?

Apple Gal

Yeah ya could just draw on 2 big pieces and then put one on either side of someone,well thats what all the 4th years do in my school!

Diarmsquid

So we're doing pretty well. We've sold all the muffins we got this week.
We've been selling in Drumcondra, Henry Street, Fairview.
And Scoil Fiachra's bought 20 boxes.

Apple Gal

So have any gone stale?

PurpleFistMixer

They're kept in plastic packaging, and.. well, some of the boxes we got were actually frozen.. o.O

Worst I've come across so far in regards the muffins is one of them that was open, (but that was just because we'd been sorting them into boxes and it got ripped), and some of the blueberries packages were printed all banjaxd so the bit that contains the "Blueberry" was down the side and all.
People didn't seem to notice though.

Not sure how many boxes we've sold, but so so many muffins have been packaged and dated and such. And yet, I continue to eat them...

Diarmsquid

Yeah, they were frozen for us too. People still bought them and ate them though.
Nobody said anything.
We also had the Blueberry packaging problem. Again nothing was said.
People aren't too fussy when it's for charity.

And tell me what you think of this:
Someone pays the €2 but say "I won't take the muffin, I'm on a diet/not hungry/don't like muffins"
Do you think it's okay to eat it yourself? Or do you keep it and sell it agin to make another €2?
Temple Street still ge the money for the muffin. Or should you look at it saying they could get more?
The class is divided, half of us think it's ok to eat it, the other half don't.
I'm kinda on the fence myself.
What you make of it?

Apple Gal

Emm well oh gosh I actually have no idea, thats a toughy!

Flashling

Sell it again, but at the end of the day if you still have it, eat it.

Victor

Diarmsquid wrote:

Someone pays the €2 but say "I won't take the muffin, I'm on a diet/not hungry/don't like muffins"

Then they have merely donated to charity, you haven't sold the muffin, so you can't eat it.

Apple Gal

Oh yes that is very true!