1. We are working within the food industry, and more specifically, focusing on providing colleges with healthy food options by selling nutritious pre-packaged food in vending machines.
2. Problems we identified:
(1) Colleges lack the ability to provide healthy food options to students due to lack of funds, as a result of the drastic difference in the cost of junk food and healthy food options.
(2) College’s stereotype their student body, believing that students prefer junk food over healthy food options.
(3) Most college students are on a tight and strict budget and healthy food options are not feasible.
(4) It can be a large time commitment to cook meals, and students do not have access to kitchen equipment for cooking.
The following people are most interested in ensuring students receive healthy food: students, investors, universities, parents, and faculty and staff.
4. (1) If colleges lack the ability to provide healthy food options to students due to lack of funds and with the huge difference in costs of junk food and healthy food options, student will not be able to live healthy lives.
(2) If college’s stereotype their student body, believing that students prefer junk food over healthy food options, then the colleges will not be as likely to invest in healthy vending machines. If colleges follow the stereotype that students do not buy our products because they want to eat junk food, then it would be a negative effect on the university because they would believe they will not earn a profit at all from their investment.
(3) If most college students are on a tight and strict budget and healthy food options are not feasible, they will stick to eating the unhealthy options and will become obese and unhealthy individuals creating future generations to continue on this trend.
5. (“food” OR “healthy food”) AND (“access to healthy food” OR “high food prices”) AND (“founder” OR “owner”) AND (“failure” OR “growth”)
Other companies with similar concepts:
Healthy You Vending
Fresh Healthy Vending
Hello Fresh
Nourish Foods
6. Yes, because as college students who face this problem constantly, we were able to propose a solution that we would deem as beneficial to ourselves and in turn, other college students. With that being said, we will need to research how to manage the financial needs of this project
Yes, we will continue with the idea.