What is your product idea, and who is your audience?

  • Our food product for this project is dessert dumplings. With Asian dumpling skins and international fillings (fillings from different parts of the world to satisfy different people), we aim to sell our product to everyone (the international market). Another potential audience is kids. Kids are more likely to be attracted by sweets. Desserts warped in dumpling skins can attract kids’ attention and make their parents buy the product. Kids can also easily convince their parents by claiming that it helps them learn about different food (dessert) cultures around the world.

What are your plans for data collection and modeling as a group or individual?

  • We plan to send out a questionnaire about potential flavors for the dessert dumplings, which will help us collect data from our target audience. We will also make a visual model of our product, including our logo and packaging for our dumplings. In addition to the visual model, we will also include a financial model to show our material cost, selling prices, and the profit we make.

What is your role in the team?

  • I focus on the financial planning part of the team. I will make the financial model, keep track of the material prices, selling prices, and how we market our product. I focus on financial planning but also work on other parts of the project. Everyone in the group comes up with dessert filling and dumpling skin ideas. In our first week of the project, we came up with various ideas and tested some dumpling fillings to see how they worked with traditional dumpling skins. We thought of mochi skins instead of plain dumpling skins. For fillings, we thought of mixed berries, chocolate, peanut butter, nuts, fruits, and flavor themes, such as tropical flavored, refreshing flavored, and winter flavored.

What are some potential challenges you may run into over the next 2-3 weeks?

  • For the next 2-3 weeks, we will focus on coming up with new dumpling ideas/test dumpling flavors. I need to work on the cost analysis worksheet; we need to send out a survey and start our packaging model and marketing plans.

Trying out different ways to prepare dumplings and different fillings:

Trying out different dumplings