Blog 22 - Independent Component 2

This is the food we catered to this event.

Just a small view of the set up we did for the event.

(a) Include this statement:

•  “I, Leslie Torres, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 35 hours of work.”

(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.

• I believe my mentor Mrs. Bernal was my biggest help with completing my IC2 because she trusted me with organizing a catering event (which she helped me do), but she also lets me see all the different little jobs you have to do as a manager from fixing schedules,calendars, office to working with customers and going to events. Articles help you understand everything mentally, but my mentor allowed me to learn physically. 

(c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log (which should be under your Senior Project Hours link)

• Updated Hours IC2

(d) Explain what you completed.    

• What I completed for my IC2 was I was able to host a catering event within the restaurant with the help of Mrs. Bernal. I did not just come in the day of the event ready to do what a manager does, but I worked my way up to learning all the different things I had to do from greeting people to making sure they liked the food by going to mentorship and interacting with the customers. Mrs. Bernal later told me how she thought I did and she said she enjoyed the way I would talk to the guests because having good communication with everyone is always important, but also liked how I didn't ever show how tired I actually was, but showed the guests I was there ready and happy to serve them and host their event.

(e) Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.   

• Pictures at the top of this Blog

(f)How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.

• I believe my IC2 helped me with my EQ because my answers revolve around taking control, being a leader, and advertisement. With this catering event I believe I was able to be the leader of the staff because I would tell them what time everything needed to get done,  how to set up, but also reminded them to stay organized with their own job. With the feedback Mrs. Bernal gave me I believe I did a good job at being in control because everything went smoothly and nothing seemed to go wrong. This catering helped with advertisement because I learned from an article named "Improve Your Restaurant Sales with Caterings" by Monica Parpal that with the smallest appearance you make at an event you make guests notice you exist and that way you let everyone know what they can expect if they visit your restaurant. 

Blog 16 - Independent Component 2 Approval

IC #2.. I am ready for you. 

• 1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
• What I plan to do is be able to attend more caterings with my mentor in order for me to learn more how to work as a team, how to communicate. For the actual Independent Component 2 I plan on organizing and running another social gathering or a "party". In order to do that I need to make sure I get everyone's opinion on food, location, etc. I will be in charge of making sure everything is running smoothly and everyone has what they need. 
• 2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
• I plan on going to mentor ship as usual, attend different caterings and allowing myself to get more communication skills. I will record all my outings on my google docs and will/can check in with my teacher and give them any new ideas or suggestions I come up with in order to help better my project. 
• 3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
• It will help me explore my topic more because management is all about working as a team and exceeding customer satisfaction. If I am able to plan another gathering "party", I will be able to see how many people i please and if I am able to please a few people at a party I will learn how to keep many customers happy in order for any business to succeed. 
• 4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.
• You got it. 

(P.S. any other idea will be noted, thank you)

Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) I, Leslie Torres, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 33 hours of work.
• (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.    
• My mentor Ms.Bernal is the one who guided me through my IC#1 by taking me to caterings, allowing me to help with her Christmas celebration and allowing me to work around the restaurant. 
• (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.
• Updated Hours 
• (d) Explain what you completed.    
• I was able to complete the task of organizing our house Christmas Party with the help of my mentor. 
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
  
• You might not think throwing a party is difficult, but when you get involved in "Party planning" you see it can be a hassle. I had to keep everyone's opinion open to try and please as many people as I could have. It is very important you go out and learn how to communicate with others, and that is exactly what I did.  (Pics below) I didn't personally take any pictures at our House Party, but I have pictures of events I was able to attend.
• APPLIED
  My independent component helped me understand my topic better because while mentoring I learned customer satisfaction is going to get you where you need to be and because I was able to experience that I learned that if I wanted to continue down this path all I have to do is have a controlled staff in order to gain customers. My independent component was all about communication as well as satisfying everyone, and in the food industry you need to make sure you are communicating with everyone in order for your consumer to be happy and refer you to others. I communicated with everyone by asking them what the thought would be a better main dish to bring in and what type of desserts they would prefer. By appreciating everyone's thoughts it is sure that more people will enjoy the outcome of any given scenario

A catering a attended to that helped me with my IC#1

                                                         A catering I attended leading into my IC                                                               

                                                                   

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This is another piece of evidence regarding my IC#1

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Blog 8 - Independent Component 1 Proposal

Me when someone asks me if I'm worried about IC. 

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

• What I plan to do is hopefully be able to arrange a "celebration/get together" with our North House class in the MPR (if I get the permission). As you might know I am doing my project on Restaurant Business Management, and the way it relates to my topic is because as manager it is my duty to;
• Have everything be sanitary
• Make sure things are up to health code
• Have a well organized "staff"
• Supply Menu's
• Supply the food
• Make sure the customers (north house) feel comfortable
• keep everything running smoothly
• I feel I will be able to fill up my 30 hours because I will need to learn how to make proper menus with reasonable deals, and etc. Also, I would need to inspect the restaurant I work at to see health codes in order for me to know what I should fix in the MPR and etc. 
• (p.s. I would appreciate it if you would be able to give me more ideas in order for this component to be better)

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

• I will be able to show the evidence of my 30 hours working on this component because I will probably be at school for part of it, and can check in with my house teacher, but also record it on my docs. I will also like to work with other students that have similar ideas to mine and we can all record all the data we have including; pics, log entry's, recordings, and etc. And possibly show our teachers. 

3.  Explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

• This idea will help me explore my topic more because I plan on basically running a small business. Even if it just takes up a day, or week, or month it will give me a visual of how it is when you manage a restaurant/business. It will give me a better understandment of all the work managers actually go under and will hopefully teach me some skills for the future. 

4.  Update your Senior Project Hours log.

• New Link posted on blog "Senior Project hours - Leslie's mentoring hours"