8 Great Things at RDC Last Semester

Dear Friends,

Its been a great experience starting and operating Red Dot Cafe (RDC). The ride was full of up's and down's but we manage and are here to stay. To sum it up, let me bring you 9 reasons why RDC has been great for us

1) Starting RDC from nothing to something
Early August we secured a place to do business but we had no idea what to sell. Around end of august and after much discussion and survey we decided to run a cafe, a place where PGP residents can come relax and catch up with friends. So September and October was the month of going out each day to look for stuffs and searching suppliers. We also had to research and test each item, to see if it will make you crave for it. Countless of time we ended up at the toilet because too much coffee is bad for your bowel! Oct 15, RDC open it's door serving you after 2.5 months of planning it

2) Best and diverse Barista Team
Each Barista comes from different parts of the world. But they are all there for one reason, is to serve you good coffee. RDC would like to thank Susan, Tiang, Rafi, Saffiyah, Lochani, Trang, Scast, Sandeep, Premesha for being a great team together. Special thanks to Khimpy and Yaying for your support =) The Barista's are RDC's best asset and we are glad that most of you will be back next semester.

3) Getting to know the regular customers
We wouldn't have survive without these group of regular customers. RDC would like to thank you for coming back to the cafe. Each time you are back, it's a satisfaction because we know that we have served you well previously. But the fun of it, is everytime they come back for the usual drinks or food. It's like "hello, welcome back! the usual for you today?" Most of the barista can exactly remember what will they ask for and how they want it made. In case you do not know, our popular drinks are cafe mocha, chocolate milkshake and food is toasted sandwich and brownie with ice cream

4) Cool Band Performance
Rather than just doing daily business, we realize that it is important to bring in some extra events to make the place livelier. Thats what "the basement" did. The band performance was great and guests enjoyed the singing. I must say, things change ever since the band came. People knew more about the cafe and sales partially went up too. be on the lookout for more events from RDC

5) Keep changing and adding the menu
What came and left us the past semester:
The stuff that left us - Burrito, Ciabatta/Foccacia sandwichs, Strawberry freeze, peach ring
The stuff that came to us - hotdogs, oreo milkshake, apple pie, brownie, muffin.......

Items come and go depending on how much you like it. But as you can see, we brought in more items than removing them. A lot of the recipe change throughout the semester and is still changing today. The only thing that is bugging us is getting the right ice blended recipe (still in process). Thank you all for your feedbacks and that is how we learn if we are making it right and tasty. New menu and our new subunit, RDC Classic menu will be out sometime this week!

6) Meeting suppliers for free samples!
This may sound cheapskate, but hey free samples is good! Sometimes we can even make a free meal out of it. But only with these samples we know if the product is able to sell or just wasting selling space. Singapore economy must be very good, or they badly want your business. Usually they will give huge samples and almost everything they have for you to try. Anyways, its free so suppliers if you do read this blog, keep you samples coming!

7) Increasing sales and growth
After dumping in a large sum of $$, at least we know we did park it correctly and its growing. Years of savings and hard earned part time money went into RDC. We are indeed happy that we didn't make a loss last term, but we made a profit! How much?! 2 figure PROFIT! Lets hope that next semester we will be able to make more to upgrade some of the machinery that we have. Better investment to appliances will bring you faster and better quality food and drinks

8) Friends
Dear friends, thank you for all the encouragements and feedbacks that you have been giving us. Also thank you for bringing your friends to show support for RDC. The best customers are of course your friends. They give you the most honest opinion on everything (although most of the time you say everything is good =)

9) www.reddotcafe.blogspot.com
Of course this blog has been great for us. It is here that we post what we do at the cafe and inform you what is happening at the cafe. It is also the place where we can do survey's but the only purpose is sharing our experience at RDC to you. Thank you for always coming back to the blog and reading it =)


RDC will be opening on the 14th Jan. Hopefully next semester we will be able to have many more great things to write about RDC. We will be undergoing mini renovations from wed-sun. If you are free come and drop by and see the enhancements that we are adding in