The Blender’s Bliss juice bar opened for a short time at St Columba’s School but the skills its young operators gained will last a lifetime.
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A term of research and planning resulted in the grade five and six students opening their juice bar to schoolmates and family this week.
Blender’s Bliss was created as a health research project, with pupils creating and testing menus, sourcing ingredients, managing financial matters, making the juices and smoothies, developing logos, advertising and marketing plans, making aprons and order forms, and writing a jingle.
The school’s more than 300 pupils were able to order one of two drinks with year levels served on different days during the week.
When they’d finished their juice, pupils chose one of four charity boxes to put their empty cups in with profits from the $3 drinks then being shared among the charities according to how many cups were deposited.
Students researched various charities then voted to decide which four would share in the juice bar profits.