Lita's Mexican Food

Claire Xia
Claire developed a model for estimating the impact of future product launches on important financial indicators such as sales and cash flow. Additionally, she developed an inventory management system for categorizing raw ingredients, purchasing cycles, and organization into final products

Kindred Cultures

Vincci Zheng
Kindred Cultures Inc is a female-led business that manufactures water kefir, a probiotic-rich drink. Vincci was responsible for conducting analysis and providing recommendations concerning their B-Corp. readiness and cost-efficiency.

BC Food Processors Association

Espoir Tuyisenge
Developed a unique safety guidelines document for commissary kitchens in British Columbia. Based on primary and secondary research, including interviews with the provincial government and regional health authorities.

Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts

Candice Zhang and Carolina Rodrigues Cunha
This project provides a review of PICA’s current position, market landscape, and revenue-generating strategies to map a range of competitor types and leverage the results to develop a feasibility analysis of new services or courses.

Vancouver Economic Comission

Dionissios Batistatos
This research lays out a consensus-based, inclusive approach to establishing a sustainable food-ecosystems policy in Vancouver. By applying an analytical hierarchy process to group decision-making, it offers a policy development strategy for a regenerative local food system.

Bimbo Canada Ltd.

Hanyu Wang
Due to recent acquisitions and customer-base growth, Bimbo Canada must revise the legal territory maps included in its franchisee contracts. This project provides renewed property mapping based on up-to-date customer data, with a final deliverable of 450 maps.

Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Jill Smilestone
In collaboration with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s economic affairs team, this co-op term involved determining and assessing the costs and benefits of proposed federal regulations pertaining to food safety, and animal and plant health.

Nada Grocery

Chelsea Zhang
This project conducted with Nada Grocery, assesses customers’ preferences via market research, including in-store customer feedback, and face-to-face interviews and surveys, in order to understand what works and doesn't work in figure the customer shopping journey.

The Greater Vancouver Food Bank

Kevin Elsaputra
By the end of the project, not only did I complete the objectives, but I had also made many meaningful connections. As someone who never had any formal work experience prior to this, I found this aspect of the project invaluable.
In this project Kevin employs statistical methods to efficiently and accurately analyze the products that the GVFB receives based on characteristics such a nutritional facts.

UBC

Alvaro de la Viña
Do something you are passionate about.

This project assessed the opportunity to produce and use black soldier fly larvae meal as an ingredient for animal feed in Mexico. It included a supply and demand analysis, a competitive framework, and a financial analysis. Read More

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