Scrooge Strategy

I seriously love this

8 comments — written on February 16th, 2006

My brother just sent this to me: Chompz In-N-Out Delivery

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An In-N-Out delivery service for Stanford students!

Why’d they do it?

We’re seniors. We’re bored. It’s around that time to hunt for jobs, and, well, that takes time and effort. So we decided to bring In-N-Out burgers to campus.

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We probably won’t make much, if anything, from this – a Double-Double costs 2.75 + tax, which amounts to $3 – we’re adding 99 cents to that, hoping that somehow it’ll make up for the gas, extra materials, heating, and effort of us running all over campus. But this is at least fun, and we’ll have something to tell our potential employers when we work for The Man next year.

Absolutely right. Sure, this probably isn’t a scalable busines model. But who cares? You can bet they’ll learn a ton more than by sitting around playing on their email. And more importantly, they’re doing something. I’d hire these guys over a 4.0 student any day.

Good luck, guys.

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  1. 1
    February 16, 2006

    Ben Casnocha

    Nice! I had this idea for my high school – run a delivery service so kids don’t have to go off campus to get better food at lunch. Alas, our catering service prevents competition. Perverting the free market!!

  2. 2
    February 16, 2006

    John

    They used to have a service like this at Cal called 411-Food. They would get you anything you wanted from a local eatery and deliver it to you for a 10% mark-up plus tip. It folded up because it wasn’t profitable enough, but I’ll be damned if everyone didn’t love it.

  3. 3
    February 16, 2006

    Pedro

    I have been thinking of doing somehing like this also in my neighborhood but I don’t really know how. There is one for my school now:

    OrderInChinese.com

  4. 4
    February 16, 2006

    pedro

    What happened to the financial makeover series?

  5. 5
    February 16, 2006

    Chris Yeh

    Hey, will they deliver to my house instead? It’s along the way from 101 to Stanford….

  6. 6
    February 16, 2006

    Jack Hardcastle

    I think it’s a fabulous idea. A friend and I tried to start a business recently (we’re both graduating seniors) and, to make a long story short, ran into legal barriers with the University. I’m glad to hear someone else is trying the same thing. I wish them all the best!

  7. 7
    February 17, 2006

    Christy Mann

    Now this is the kind of stuff I like to see. I am starting a Professional Services Business and I’m projecting being ready to open the doors the first of April. It has started with just myself working my ass off as a temp and anything else I could do to get myself through school. Now, I am starting to hire other people to do the work for me. It is an awesome feeling!!! Keep it up guys, it’s great work!!!

    Christy :)

  8. 8
    December 1, 2006

    Hugh

    Yep, food-based businesses are great learners. Everyone needs food.

    My first “business” was running a tuck shop (snack shop, for you non-UK types) at school. Probably made a few thousand dollars on that. Also learned some important rules, like “do give credit, but watch it like a hawk”.

    And I’ve now been running my own business for 10 years, in a horrendously competitive field (film production), based partially on what I learned running that damn tuck shop.

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