Here
is
the problem statement we have to work on:
The manager of the school cafeteria has come to you and your
team for help. The manager needs better information to use in making
decisions about what food, and how much of each food, to prepare. This
project involves designing and implementing a data collection system
that will help culinary arts personnel make reliable decisions about
menu planning.
Here
are
some activities that can help you tackle this problem:
- Successful menu planning requires, among other things,
reliable information about student preferences for the various food
items. Experience in the Davea cafeteria has shown that food
preferences vary by:
- School (e.g. Pizza puffs are more popular at some
schools than others)
- Day of the week (e.g. Some days are slow days for some
items...maybe because the same items are offered at the students' own
schools on a prior day ?)
- Other factors ?? (boy/girl ? grade in school ? )
- Having in mind the above, discuss in your groups the
problem statement. Determine relevant student background data that you
want to collect: school; gender; grade; day of week of survey;
(others?)
- Design a survey (questionnaire) that will provide baseline
data on student preferences for food types (hamburgers, pizza puffs,
etc.)
- Prepare an html document, including a response form so that
you can enter data on the web and search what you want to find out.
