By Helen Jang DFM 353 Spring 2014
Commercial urban café with an assembly serve kitchen Located in downtown San Francisco Open Mon – Sat 6am to 2pm, serving quick breakfast foods such as bagel sandwiches, wraps, and sandwiches Target market: nearby working people, tourists, quick meal lovers
“At Perfect Harmony Café, we want to provide convenient, affordable, and nutritious on-the-go foods. Our focus will be serving breakfast to the people around the Financial District and downtown area of San Francisco. We will achieve this through our menu, convenient café layout, and accessible location ”.
We want our customers to focus on getting/ enhancing nutrients from eating foods rather than finding it in pill form We would list the amount of vitamins and minerals in each meal compared with the daily values on our menu and on our website We would also have a weekly/ monthly newsletter with any new nutrition news and how we plan to utilize them for our foods in the future
Breakfast Lunch Turkey* whole-wheat bagel with tomato, arugula, and avocado*, can be a meal served with a side of fortified orange juice* *Orange juice and avocados contain a good amount of Vitamin C which helps increase absorption of iron in the turkey Iron in 4 oz Turkey: ~26mg (146% DV) Vit C in 8 oz glass Orange juice: ~82mg (137% DV) Vit C in 1/5 th of an avocado: ~23mg (38% DV) Salmon* multi-grain sandwich with lemon zest, tomato, spinach*, and a light chipotle mayo, can be a meal served a side of fortified soymilk* or almond milk* *Vitamin D in salmon helps in the absorption of calcium in spinach, soymilk/ almond milk Vitamin D in 4 oz salmon: ~511 IU (127% DV) Calcium in 1 cup of spinach: ~ 230 mg( 24% DV) Calcium in 8 oz glass of almond milk: ~370mg (38% DV) Calcium in 8 oz glass of soymilk: ~ mg (30-50% DV)
I learned… Once you have an idea, it does not have to be one facet, but can expand to different ideas Not just about food, but about marketing, legality, research, people, the entire food/business industry in general, and much more
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