Chipotle Burrito Reflection

In September of 2014, my partner Asli, and I, two high-school seniors, decided that people should have a choice between Chipotle burritos and cafeteria pizza that tastes like it endured a nuclear fallout. Starting with surveys, we determined whether there would be demand for a service that delivered burritos instead of cafeteria food, and if so, how much extra people would be able to pay. We prepared extensively, creating several worksheets to track income and expenses, and created an online form that would take in people’s order. It was also possible to delegate our tasks to design a logo and reduce costs. Within a few weeks, we started our business FeedMe, a service which took online orders for burritos and delivered them during the school day (during our free periods). Demand for the service skyrocketed.

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Working with spreadsheets and collecting payments helped me understand the value of good accounting in order to become not only a better businessman, but also generally better at organizing tasks in my life. I learned to become more goal oriented, and set timely check points for a project in order to transform ideas into a working. Working with my partner to coordinate schedules (for instance, who would drive, who would place orders, who would collect payments and when) helped me understand the value of teamwork when starting a small business. Managing our business helped us to become better professionals, as we had to interact with customers as well as a competing business. We learned and appreciated the value of providing a unique good to a community and creating a niche for that good. Overall, this experience helped us to become more independent people, individuals who created an experience for themselves (the first small entrepreneurship started at our high school) instead of just reading about it or watching it on