Rebel Ventures has been developing a few new products over the last few months. One such product is the Rebel Cake, what I feel to be our tastiest product yet. Our crew loves the cake and are always excited to make it. Soon, we plan on having these cakes as a healthy and delicious alternative to the current breakfast offered at elementary schools in Philadelphia. On Thursday, we took these cakes to Huey to see how...
Last week, I started working with ReBel Ventures and I could not be happier with the experience so far. My first task was to make the seeds. I had no idea what that meant, but within a few minutes, I had my hairnet, gloves, and red apron on and I was ready to go. We measured the seeds and put different spices on them. After we baked them, we put them in bags. In my...
One of my favorite things about last week was the ReBel Ventures full crew meeting. We have one every Thursday from 3:30 to 6:30PM. This is where the entire crew, including mentors, gets together to discuss and work on things like future goals, pros and grows (things that are/were good and things that could use improvement), and any new ideas that we might have. We also break off into our departments (accounting, design, marketing, operations,...
Almost every week in the Rebel kitchen we get cases of ripe fruit delivered from the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market in Southwest Philly (it turns out that just a few miles from us is the biggest cold storage refrigerator in the country). Our job is to process the fruit (peel, wash, chop), put it in ziplock bags, and store it in our walk-in freezer. We call the fruit Rebel Icy Colors. We then deliver the fruit to 3...
Hi, my name is Nicolas Palmer. I will be telling you about Rebel's R&D (Research & Development) process. Steps step 1.) We broke up into groups. step 2.) We talked about what we would want as our new product. step 3.) We talked about who our target audience is. step 4.) We talked about where it could be sold. step 5.) What ingredients would be used? step 6.) How fast could it be produced and how many could be produced at a time? Zaire and...