Blogging, what do I think? Well the experience was definitely fun although I really hate admitting it, it actually taught me a little bit about getting out of the this narrow view that I have about the food service industry, and look for interesting articles: new trends, financial growth, problems and the ways out of those problems. Also it taught me that I should be so focused on my restaurant but the industry as a whole, like reading on crops shortages that could affect everyone. I thought it was educational because this what we are here for as managers in training to go out and look for trouble or look for events that could be disastrous to our establishment and start planning for the inevitable.
What I learned, I learned to broaden my view about this industry that I am going into. I also learned how to look for things that could affect everyone as a whole. Especially what trends the consumer is getting into, and finding ways to start researching on how to make my establishment more for the consumer and how to draw them to my location.
What I liked? The experience to be on my own and do my research and do a large project about a topic that I really knew nothing about.
What I hated? The way these blogs are assigned to us, I wish it was more free range but still pertained to our industry. Looking up articles only about QSR sustainability and going green, gets really really annoying after a while.
I can use blogging in the future to help my career as a manager. I will use blogging to look up current events and possibly use it to my advantage to draw in customers to my business by advertising my menu's. Also I might even use it to talk to other chef's and keep track of trends that I am highly interested in. Especially the "Going Green" craze. So I will be following a Green restaurant Blog, to keep me informed on the ways to make a my establishment green.
In Closing blogging is definitely a new way for me to keep in touch with all the world around me I enjoyed this exercises and the class as for what it was worth and what it was trying to make me understand.
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