Assignment 8A: Solving The Problem

My selected opportunity was the lack of cheap, quick pasta in Gainesville. There are a lot of Italian restaurants in Gainesville, but a bowl of pasta starts at $10. Furthermore, the wait time for those bowls of pasta are upwards of 15-20 minutes. This is simply for the simple pasta noodles and sauce. The upcharges for meat and seafood additives and a specialty type of pasta increase the value of these dishes to about $13-$17 and sometimes well over $20. My solution is to create a centralized pasta restaurant that provides low cost, quality dishes of the carbs we love the most. The idea would be a build your own pasta bowl restaurant that wouldn’t upcharge for the extra ingredients that are so essential to a good bowl of pasta. There would be a few set items on the menu that come with a specific combination of ingredients that you could purchase. The idea is that it is a food line set up where you move through the line and pick what you want. I would try to set the price range from about $7-$11. The simple pasta and sauce dishes would be the $7 dishes. If you did a build your own bowl or had a lot of additives it would be about $8-$10. I would also try to make vegan accommodations and healthier noodles like the sweet potato noodles. Those dishes would probably be about $10-$11. However, there would be no upcharge for specific ingredient additives such as meats, common seafoods, vegetables, cheeses, and sauces.