Monday Morning Café. New solution for Cake Sales?

Michaela Danek and Petra Spanihelova have recently introduced their project called the Monday Morning Café.

The purpose of this event is very simple; selling coffee, tea and some sweets on Monday morning.

For long years the Student Council has been discussing how to improve the Cake Sales and make them more attractive for people, unfortunately none of the managements was able to find a solution. One ex-president even thought that renaming the Cake Sale to Italian "Rinfreschi" could help solve the problem. Luckily sensibility prevailed and after a one year pause we resumed using the good old "Cake Sale" call-sign.

After one year of being in charge of the SC, I thought that the best solution would be decreasing the intensity (amount) of Cake Sales, but meanwhile make each Cake Sale more special and perhaps a bigger event with a greater turnover.

However the Monday Morning Café seems to be a very good solution. There are several advantages arising from it. First of all, Monday is the important beginning of each week when all the people tend come tired and apathetic in the morning; so there is no better way to start the week than by drinking a cup of the "caffeine catalyst" which gives a person a lot of energy to successfully begin a new day. Secondly, preparing a Monday Morning Café involves only two people for organisation and running, instead of at least 5-7 needed for a Cake Sale, so making a MM Café is not so complicated, in order not to intrude in to people's timetable there could be 4-5 volunteers for the whole year who could rotate. Lastly MM Café proved to be very profitable, one sale earned up to 400 CZK; multiplied by 4 we 1600 CZK per month which is an important source of income throughout the whole year.

Overall, MM Café is very promising project for the future of the SC.