Daily Report: Summaries

The pizza stand finished its first month of operation and, astoundingly its performance was almost exactly what I predicted. I expected sales of around 20 pizzas per day (it was 19 per day) and profits per pizza of around 20 pisos per pizza (it was 19.6 pisos). Actually, we probably would have sold more pizzas, but I made the mistake of trying to cut costs with some cheaper flour, and it made for terrible pizza dough, and using it really cut into sales and profits.

Susan (my sister-in-law... the pizza shop is hers, not mine) wants to expand to a place down on the highway in one of the nearby larger towns. I think we would probably come closer to 40-50 pizzas per day in that location. We'd be paying rent there though, so it is a matter of either charging 5 or 10 pisos more per pizza, or having a lower profit margin.

We went to David Schreuder's baptism today at church, and a party afterwards. I'm a little bit pressed for time at the moment, so I'll put up photos in a separate post later in the day that will appear below this one.

Epril and I went on a date tonight into CDO. We had Japanese for dinner, and then watched "2012". That had to be the most incredibly stupid, incredibly entertaining movie I've ever seen. "2012" is to action movies what The Three Stooges is to comedy. It took the "escaping death by a hair's breadth" to ridiculous, almost farcical extremes. I can recommend it highly to anybody who is willing to deposit their rational thought at the theatre entrance.

The weather here has been chilly. (And yes... by chilly, I mean warm by American/European standards.) There have been lots of drizzles too; an ugly time of year. Jasaan is getting ready for it's big fiesta though, with bands practicing on the city green, people setting up stands everywhere, planning big dinners. (Obviously lots of pizzas will be sold.)

Mike Bird is building a chicken stand down on the highway. He should be open for business in a couple of weeks. He's been getting chicken-cooking lessons from a local chicken-cooking master, and is perfecting his own recipe. It should do well.