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!
