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Cookie Fundraiser Mini Practice Set
Here’s the scenario: You are managing a bake sale for a club at your school. It’s being held each
weekend in the fall that the football team has a home game. This year, there will be five home games.
The club sells cookies in packages of two dozen. The selling price per package is $9.30. The packaging
material costs $.18 (18 cents) per package. You pay the regular kitchen staff a direct labor cost for
mixing and baking at $16.00 per hour. Baking utensils and supplies for the entire season will cost $620
(excluding the direct costs of cookies). Before each game, the cookies are prepared in a school kitchen
for a fixed rental fee of $80 per session and clean-up labor is paid a fixed total of $50 per session. You
estimate that 500 packages of cookies will be baked for each sale and that 96% of them will be sold.
Alumni volunteers, who receive no compensation, sell half of the packages and students, who receive a
commission of $.25 per package, sell the other half. You plan to run an advertisement in the school
newspaper before all five games and each advertisement costs $170.
You are to:
1) Go to the internet and find a cookie recipe. Your recipe must have at least 5 ingredients. Your
recipe will needed to be copied into your practice set in full including preparation directions,
number of cookies the recipe creates as well as baking time. No links, copy and paste.
2) Research the prices of the cookie ingredients at a local supermarket, warehouse or online
grocer. Document where you found your costs in your analysis. Do NOT change the recipe. To
convert the recipe quantities, you can use an online conversion calculator. There are several
available so use your favorite search engine.
3) Develop a budget for the five bake sales. Give the complete budget amounts per each sale and
the budget in total. You are free to develop any format for the budget. I encourage you to
develop a format that is most useful to you. Make sure your budget is complete in that it
includes details on both expected income and expected expenses with a bottom line expected
net income for each game as well as for all five games in total. Use your imagination when it
comes to the direct labor calculation. Your kitchen can be large and full of commercial ovens.
4) Analyze the club’s fundraising effort in written format. This analysis is for the use of the current
club faculty advisor and also the next year’s bake sale manager and must mention these two
people. This analysis is done separately by each student. Don’t miss points by forgetting your
audience.
5) Within your analysis, make suggestions for next year’s bake sale manager, including those
suggestions that would improve the bottom line with approximations of how much the bottom
line will improve.
You will submit in your packet:
Title page with name of student who completed the analysis. Be sure to acknowledge those
students who you worked with. (If you would like, you can work in groups up to 3 students, but
each person must submit a separate packet and complete their own unique 2-3 page analysis.)
Your recipe including quantity and cost of the ingredients along with the source of the prices
and directions for baking.
Your budget, which is completed using an Excel file with formulas. Be sure that all items are
labeled to make it understandable. Break down your conversions from recipe quantities to
purchased quantities using clear steps showing each step in your calculation. (Here is an
example of conversion work. For instance, your recipe calls for 1.5 cups of flour which you find
out weighs .444 pounds per cup. You need 266.4 pounds to make enough cookies. If you buy
flour in 5 pound bags, how many bags do you need and at what price?? Show your complete
calculation and pricing for each ingredient. I used a conversion calculator to give me the dry
weight pounds per cup.)
Your analysis, which is completed using a Word file. It is to be unique to each student, which
should be at 2-3 pages in length. You might begin with an overview of the project, then analyze
the results, and finally suggest alternative courses of action that would improve on the success
of the project. Write as if you are providing this packet to your club faculty advisor and also to
the next year’s bake sale manager. Specifically use their names and titles in the report. If you
want a word count, the analysis should have at least 1,000 words. This analysis is in addition to
your budget and recipe and conversion work.
Have fun, be creative and include any additional items that might make your project
outstanding. 10% of your grade is earned by adding something extra here.
The grading rubric is attached to this assignment in Canvas. Study it carefully to see how points
are assigned to each of the components of the project.
Be warned. The data changes for this project every semester. If you are tempted to use a prior
project, this constitutes plagiarism and your data will match the current project.