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MFO – Chef’s Special

Abhinav Dapke

This concept is designed to address the hunger issue. The present model is to collect donations from few individuals, corporate & organization bodies & reach it to needy people through social organizations & NGOs. The strategy of this concept is to connect the everyday activity/interaction between restaurant & its customers/patrons. Extend this relationship for positive cause by addressing huger issue with the support of NGOs. The idea is to connect commercial food business to the hunger issue. Philosophy: MFO

– Chef’s Special MFO (Meal for Others) is a sticker on a restaurant menu card. However, it represents symbolic relationship between Consumers, Restaurants & NGOs, working together to serve food for the hungry. While ordering from the menu card, the Patron / customer will have the option of asking for an MFO. With every MFO ordered, they would pay for a single meal of a hungry soul. In return to the gesture, the restaurant would serve the customer their Chef’s Special Desert. This is a unique way of sharing happiness with others.

Describe the critical need your solution addresses.

Presently this idea is at a concept stage.
In next stage this idea/concept will be discussed with NGOs & Restaurant bodies.
Thus this idea will get more refined so that can be implemented to sample area.
On successful implementation of this idea, it can be extended to region then to countries.
The prize money will get utilized in different areas
- For organizing meeting with NGOs & restaurant bodies.
- Marketing & publishing this concept through media for awareness & positive involvement
- Adding staff to organize this concept across sample area.
- Reaching bigger mass though NGOs & government support.

Explain your initiative in more depth and its stage of development.

This is a very unique idea addressing the huger issue without creating other problems.

This idea provides novel oppturnities to restaurants & its customers to contribute
towards hunger issues while enjoying individual benefits of profits & good food.

If this idea gets implemented, it can stand for new trends of donating individual contribution. Although the individual contribution is a small monetary amount but collectively it will be of huge value. It will have long term impacts of implementation.

This is very feasible because is relying on existing setup & system.

This will not require rigorous testing but implementation in sample area would be required, So as to understand the drawbacks of the process & correction remedy.

It is scaleable idea, can be replicated in any part of world.

How does your strategy and approach respond creatively and comprehensively to key issues?

Abhinav Dapke & Suparna Dapke, Industrial designers
At this stage we are as designers, involved in refining the initial work & defining the path to achieve it. On the selection of this idea we will be expanding to the qualified staff based on the projected ground work.

Stage1: Discussion with NGOs, International restaurant bodies
Understand the feasibility of idea & refinement

Stage2: Marketing & publishing idea in the sample region

Stage3: Implementing the idea in sample area

Stage4: Addressing problems associated with outcome & further refinement

Stage5: Implementing through NGOs & Government in the states & countries.

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