Interview for popcorn process at Farley Corner

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POPCORN'S PROCESS

These are some information we gathered after interview MR.Siau Soon Haw, the owner of the popcorn shop . Mr.Siau’s main product for his business is corns. He was taking the corns from a nearby supermarket with a reasonable price. Mr.Siau using M320 popcorn Cooker to produce his popcorns. The cost of the machine is within the range of RM 2000 to RM 1500.Mr Siau owns the business for more than 10 years. He learnt the business techniques from other people and he generate his own idea to open a business like this. He has 2 workers as his helpers and the salary for them per month is within RM 800 to RM 1000.This business is the main source of income to Mr.Siau.

*The owner of Farley corner (popcorn shop), Mr.Siou Soon Haw

Mr.Siau also told us about the steps to produce popcorns. The ingredients used to produce popcorns are corns, oil, sugar and butter. Normally he bought 5 kilograms of corns per day. He needs 200gram of butter and 5 spoons of oil to produce 300 grams of popcorns. Every day he will start his business with processing 3kg’s of corns and per day he can sell 5 to 6 kilograms of popcorns. The process of making popcorn will take little bit time. It will take 3 to 4 minute for 300 grams of popcorns to fully cooked. Normally he will prepare 300grams of popcorn as a ready stock where customers can see and buy it and as the stock finish he will replace with new stocks which he will do on the spot.

 *Interview with MR.Siau Soon Haw

Mr.Siau’s working hour is from 3.00 pm until 10.00 pm. MR.Siau was putting a reasonable price for his popcorn cups. The price of a cup of popcorn is RM 1.20.A cup contains 60 grams of popcorns. The cost to make a cup of popcorn is RM 0.60 and the income for a cup is 60 cents. His estimating is he can sell 30 to 50 cups of popcorns per day. His customers are mostly children and teenagers. He chose a strategic place where the place will be always with crowd.

 *Popcorn machine process

 *Popcorn seal machine's

 *The price of a popcorn

*Popcorn weight scaled machine

Finally we asked Mr.siau’s future plans, he told that he wants to upgrade the taste of his popcorns by adding many flavors and he also want to add extra cheese in his pop corns. This will attract the customers by giving them new taste. He also wants to use a kind of sugar in his popcorns which can prevent from getting diabetes. He also wants to open new branches soon after upgrade his current popcorn taste level. He also said that soon he is coming out with some promotions ideas like giving a set with low price compare to other shops, birthday promotions and so on.

*After an interview with Mr.Siau Soon Haw

Posted by: Thevenderen A/L Nathan (S22743)

Updated by: Amar Redza (S23111) and Wan Muhammad Hamimin (S23179)