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Here is a list of restaurants to interview and get information from:

White Palm Herman's Market Cafe Applebee's APD Radcliffe's Giant Weis school

We looked at GaleGroup and they have virtually nothing on our topic.... so don't bother. :)

We need to come up with a way to present the movie: Documentary Story with customers upset by where the restaurant gets their food any other ideas????

-ashley & jenna :)

Hiiiii

Katie you are probably the next one to see this.... sooooo me and abbey think that documentary would be best/easiest. Story would be really complicated to get the point across, we can still make documentary really cool.

What about going farther away from Topton? seeing differences from here to there. As simple as reading restaurants, because there would be more to look at, if we need it to be longer or something. Just an idea.

and what about fast foods? because even though you said dont bother we went on galegroup anyway hahah and we found this article on waste of fastfoods. there is local fast foods obviously such as arbys or burger king in kutztown or even the wendys and mcdonalds in trexlertown, i dont know?

We found this website on CNN.com. We think its like a good over view of like the whole country. It could be a good introduction or something to the video, see what you think. http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/09/24/food.leftovers/index.html#cnnSTCText

~Abbey and Loos =p

**Nice work so far! Keep it up! ~Shaw 4.12.09 **

** Hi;

We looked at the CNN link and think we could use a couple facts from that. We went onto McDonald's website and found this: http://cep.mcdonalds.com/qualityfood/supplier_keystone_story.jsp ** we could go to them for an interview already knowing about their food and supply and ask them questions based on it

We looked at other restaurants like Applebees. We also looked at Giant's website and couldn't find anything, but Weis's website did say that they are the largest purchasers of dairy and produce in Pennsylvania, which means they are buying local.

We should soon start calling these restaurants and business's to see if we can schedule to come talk with them cuz we dont wanna run all the way out and them be like... um.... no. haha

love ashleyyyy & jennnnna



ello

yeah thats a good idea about calling ahead of time. It can get us prepared so we will get all the phone numbers. here it goes...

White Palm (610)-682-5000 Herman's (610)-682-2128 Market Cafe (610)-682-0302 Applebee's (610)-366-8200 APD (610)-683-5450 Radcliffe's (610)-682-7454 Giant- don't know where this is? Weis (610)-683-5263 school (610)-682-5102 McDonalds (610)-398-2218  If anyone wants to take the initiative to call these numbers go right ahead =]

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/3915?gclid=CLDwoOS98JkCFUpM5QodOXrsRA ^this website gives some good tips on what we can tell restaurants about going green... idk maybe can help in our interview.

We are trying to look for questions to ask the managers to get information... We need more! haha
 * ======what steps are restaurants taking towards going green?======
 * Do you recycle?
 * What do you do with your food waste?
 * Are your facilities clean?
 * Do you have a low flow toilet?
 * Do you let water running when washing dishes etc.?
 * How often are the lights on? all hours? all night?
 * Use environmentally friendly lightbulbs

And we have to start thinking about ideas for the public service announcement. What are we going to do and how is it going to relate to our local foods?

~Abbey & Loos =p

Hellooo everyone!! The interview questions I think are really good, and whenever we decide to go out to whichever restaurant first I have access to any equipment we will need from the telecomm room to make the interview look really cool.

Giant in trexlertown is 610-530-7730 maybe another local popular restaurant is Snuzzles @ 610-682-7272

Good Morning Poppets,

Alright, after reading your amazing questions, we realized they do not pertain to our food topic at all. We love those questions and we think we should kinda swing our topic in that direction. Keep the local food/restaurants part- but include the idea of going green and conserving energy and resources. We think just food and where they get it from is too slim and simple. Lets discuss it with shaw when she gets back??

anyway...we figured we would start on the storyboard. Dun dun dunnnnnnnn

Beginning: start with camera and one of us interviewing "random people" (meaning couple of us) in different locations and ask how much they know about local restaurants, their food, and how eco-friendly they are then be "okay well come with us and lets check it out" then cut to dramatic scenery and sweet background music (more)

Middle: Main part. Interviews, restaurants, talking about going green, questions. our "random people" are learning about it

End: after everything is done, we can kinda have like a question recap with our "random people" whoever learned the most can win a brand new hybrid car (shaws car or jennas "hybrid" tahoe) we dont know?? something fun in there to wrap things up?

keep us posted! love you lots! Mouse & Squirrel (haha loos)

Hey, As for the first part about that its not what our topic is.... this is the idea we got from you guys when you guys first told us about it. And the whole topic of the project is "going green" so saying just "food" would be not what the project is about at all. So i think we are going in the right direction.

ok... now for the story board... i like the idea of the middle but i dont know about the whole contest thing. it's not very "documentary-like" i dont know

Maybe it would work if we interview other high school kids... maybe thats why i dont like it... if we interview people outside our group i think it would be better. Maybe like bridget becuase she has no idea what we are doing in shaws so she could be an outside "non biased" source.

We are thinking of going towards more of like a news broadcast or something.

Like we first do the whole thing with interviewing people who dont know about the local foods, and then we interview the foods and make like a conclusion of what they are doing. i dont know?? up to you.

If we cant think of anything we can just go do the interviews and go with that and see what comes up from there.

We were also thinking back in the beginning we could look at Rodale's. It's a flower place in kutztown but we are told that it is very into the organic food and going green. So we could go to them and see what "Going green" and being organic is all about and then compare it to all these other local foods and how bad at it they actually are. haha

finally... when are we going to work on the actual hard copy of the story board. me and abbey can't really do it sunday and i can't do it friday and neither can jenna... soooooo what we going to do??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sim1P5S2cJI you should watch this

~Loos and Abbey =p

Hi

We like the idea of the news broadcast. As for the topic idea, we just said that because Shaw thinks we are focusing just on local restaurants and where they get their food from. We agree with the direction you are headed in.

How is Saturday night (evening - ?) for working on the story board? If not we can all just post our ideas on the wiki and have one person just type it up, however getting together would be preferred. It would be good for us to be able to speak firsthand about what's going on and the ideas.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/environment/2008-05-15-green-restaurants-eco-friendly_N.htm

This is a really good article about steps to take in going green with a restaurant as well as statistics for what they can save. We can use this for ideas for questions as well and facts to give them.

Ashley and Jenna 
 * Hey ladies - I'm not sure about your direction. Are you having trouble getting what you need? The style of the movie is up to you, remember that we also want really good content. Shaw 4.27.09

Hi everyone,

We definitely need to get together this weekend to start taping and throw things together.

Ashley and Jenna

Hello ladies! Mrs.Shaw recommended we make a phone call to this restaurant in Philadelphia called //Half Moon Restaurant and Saloon it's known for its wild game. We could ask about the Imports or whatever all that business.

http://www.halfmoonrestaurant.com/wild_game.htm Phone: 610-444-7232 info@halfmoonrestaurant.com  // ** Katie =)
 * I'm good with hanging out saturday evening or anytime sunday to start filming.

Hey,

I think we should call restaurants and such before we start planning on getting together. It needs to be a good time for them too. We can't just show up and be like "HEY" hahah.

SO abbey and loos can work on it either day. Preferably sunday because loos and jenna will have a soccer game saturday. And abbey has softball. Sunday we can get everything together and get a good start. I think we can put a lot of our ideas together then.

Hi!

Ok we called Market Cafe, Radcliffe's, and APD. Market Cafe said to call back in the afternoon and ask for Lee. Radcliffe's said that their manager is not in, and to call back in an hr or so. APD said that their manager will be in around 9 so anytime after that we can call.

Sunday is good for both of us any time. We should keep calling to try to set up interviews.

So if you guys want to call them back or try calling someone else that would be good. Everyone seemed open to letting us speak to their manager to set up an interview. Also, we should decide on which places we want to video tape and which we should just do over the phone (of course it depends on which ones actually let us tape).

Jenna & Ashley

Hey, If you want to try and keep calling.. katie you probably have the best time during 8th period because people will def be in by then. Also we were talking in class and we discussed a market in lancaster called weavers market, that gets everything home grown, including a butcher shop right there and farms on the land. So we could go there it would be a good example of what we were looking for. And i know earlier we were talking about our topic and were a little confused. I think we understand it now, It's more about the food and where they are getting there food, like most places are going to be getting them from CISCO. And shaw said its not a big deal if our project is not a big success, if this is what we get from interviewing then that is what we get. So i hope this helps us understand what we are doing on sunday.
 * Called APD and it was officially 9:26 and manager was STILL not in... so we have to try again later.
 * We don't think that we would have to call the school, we could probably just walk in during lunch and ask if we could possibly talk to them during a period.
 * For Radcliffe's we could possible talk to morgan because its her family and she could schedule something for us.
 * Herman's we can talk to daniel. i think we have connections to a lot of these local places.
 * Also i know lee from market place. She is my aunts best friend from high school and talks to my mom all the time. I know she will talk to us. I think that is one we should video tape. (Loos)
 * We also feel that we should steer away from weis and giant. I know previously you said we need to determine and narrow what we are doing.
 * we think it should be
 * market place
 * APD
 * Hermans
 * Radcliffes
 * White Palm

~loos and abbey =p

Hi :)

So we can edit the tape at Ashley's house because of her Mac after we are done filming what we need to. Let's try and get all the local filming done on Sunday. We should try to get together early so we can get a lot done. Maybe meet at someone's house at nine?? Let us know.

-- Ashley and Jenna

Hey,

I cannot get together on sunday before 1:30 because of the flea market. But abbey said that you guys can get together and think of questions and stuff and get everything together. We can tape on monday or tuesday the lunch ladies at the school.


 * KATE: PLEASE PLEASE CAN YOU CALL THE RESTAURANTS 8TH PERIOD TODAY, WE REALLY NEED TO GET AHOLD OF THEM AND THIS IS THE LAST CHANCE!!**

we will give you a dialogue for what you have to say in case you are nervous =]

first you have enter 99 and then the number. ring ring... person: "hello, thanks for calling..." katie: "hi, im from brandywine Heights High school and i was wondering if i could ask your manager a few questions?" ~ at this point for me and ashley jenna and abbey they have been telling us that the manager has not been in and to try again later. THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN! Now they are prob going to say... person: "yes hold on one moment please" Manager: "hello how may i help you" Katie: "Hi for my history class we are working on a project where we have to make a movie and our topic is local foods. I was wondering if we could maybe set up an interview for this sunday at some time with you to get some information?" Manager: (Should be ok with it) "ok" Katie: (make sure you ask what time is ok for him and schedule a time for this) Manager: "ok see you then" Katie: "Thank you so much for your time"

~Make sure you write down the times for the particular places so you don't "double book us" and we don't have to be two places at once


 * GOOD LUCK

Also we talked to Mrs. Klein (aka head lunch lady) and she was really excited about it and it sounded like she had a lot of interesting info, and me and abbey set up an interview with her on Monday during our third period so we will take care of that.

~Loos and Abbey =p

**Helloo!!
 * Thank you so much for the script Loos and Abbey it was very helpful because I acctually used it while I called haha!

Airport Diner said Sunday is no good because they are usually very very busy (which is true) but they are calling my cell phone back, but Monday is best for them anytime.

Market Cafe said that we could come in Sunday at 1 even though I told them anytime after 1:30....soooo we are going to have to arrange something because I know loos has work :

talk to you ladies about this soon :)**

Hi Ladies,

We went to put the film onto the computer and it did the same thing it did at Ashley' house. Hanych told us that we have to finalize the disc for the computer to be ready to recognize it. She said we need to finalize it when we are all done taping because once it is finalized, we cannot do anything else to the disc. So I know we have to interview the lunch ladies, after that are we done? As soon as we are positive we are done taping we need to finalize it so we can put it on the computer and start editing. So unless you can think of anything else we need to tape, go ahead and finalize if you have time after your interview. I guess it is good we did all the filming at my house then!

keep us posted! Ashley && Jenna

hey again,

we finalized and uploaded obviously. we watched through it all and laughed. we need to keep everything so we can throw in bloopers at the end to make it funny so as you go through it do not delete anything from the bottom. :) have funnn!

P.S love the opening thing that says local food! GOOD WORK!

J&A

Hey, That local food opening wasn't us hahah hopefully it was katie and not some mysterious stalker making openings for our project. haha looks good, just got to keep working on the editing. Also had fun with imovie =] ~abbey & Loos =p