Dining Places Singapore Teenagers Frequent
Teenage Eating Culture
I saw this on Yahoo News (http://sg.entertainment.yahoo.com/news/taste-like-teen-spirit.html) and found it quite interesting and useful.
Teenage Eating Culture
It talks about the various factors that teenagers will consider when they look for a dining place.
Teens rank ambience of the restaurant as one of more important factors when they choose a dining place because they want to take beautiful pictures. While I would go for the ambience factor now, I am sure most of us are not really bothered about it when we were younger (or am I the only one? HAHA!)
In addition, many of the teenagers have high spending power. They said that they do not mind spending $25-$30 (that's alot ah? considering they are teenagers) for a meal with good ambience.
Teenagers today hold events such as birthday party in expensive restaurants or even hotels as they have the means to frequent these expensive outlets and they value the quality of food and service they receive. This, I believe is in greater contrast to my time, where we are contented with a celebration held in McDonald's.
Yup, so my purpose for posting this is that I believe that we as educators and are teaching the teens, we should recognize that times have changed. The trends in the teenage community isn't the same as before, so we should identify the changes and perhaps tweak our lessons to make it more relevant to our students; such as besides cooking ethnic foods, we can teach Japanese or Korean cuisines once in a while to stimulate our students' interests and to keep up with the times.
This article can also be read by budding entrepreneurs (either ourselves! haha :) or used as reference for entrepreneurship lessons for our students) who wants to tap on the lucrative teenage market! It will tell you about the teens' expectations of dining outlets they will frequent, and how you can go about fulfilling their needs to fill your pockets!
I agreed with you Amanda! Seriously, it really bothers me when I see two secondary school students eating in a restaurant that a meal costs at least $20 plus. What is worse when I saw a group of teenagers eating at a high-class buffet @Mandarin Oriental that costs about $82+ per person. I always wondering where they got this money?
ReplyDeleteIt is also common to see teenagers carry branded bags like "Longchamp", "Fendi" (like Shereen), etc that it may take months for us to save up the money to buy. Perhaps they got the money from their parents or they work part-time. I think parents and teacher have to educate the teenagers that hard-earned money doesn't come so easily. If they really want to buy branded items, they should earn money for it and not asking parents for money. However, I also dont encourage them to work part-time just to buy these branded bags. It is important for them to realise that is branded bag a "need" or "want" ? Again, education is important to teach our young generation to spend money wisely and save up money for future use. I guess teachers have to put in effort to educate our young generation as a wise consumer.
first of all, haha to the fendi comment lol.
ReplyDeleteand second of all, i used to hang out at burger king during my secondary school days..
haizz.. miss it! used to have a whole meal and a hersheys pie
whats best is to have free time to sit and chat with friends about (now that i think about it) nothing!
:( i want to turn back time!