The Apprentice 2018

I actually thought Frank was a bit unlucky to be fired tonight. It wasn't him who caused the failure of the task

Though to be fair I thought he should have been fired last week anyway!

Amazingly, you can actually buy doughnuts like that, with biscuits and other stuff on top

https://doughnuttime.co.uk/menu/

killerandflash said:

Amazingly, you can actually buy doughnuts like that, with biscuits and other stuff on top

https://doughnuttime.co.uk/menu/

V on trend not doughnuts but our office is next door to the primrose bakery which specialise in odd cup cakes, so have all sorts on top of them from 8am- 5pm they are packed and always have plenty of couriers picking up orders they are around £4/6 a pop!.

the making a dooughnut into a b was a ridiculous idea

rina said:

I was absolutely astonished last night that everyone thought a fiver for a doughnut was a reasonable starting point. the world's gone completely mad

Just sums up a lot of what is going on in parts of London these days.
The selling of complete guff for a fortune and people actually paying for it!

Based on the task, I think the bird should have gone. Chilli chocolate is a completely different flavour to a chocolate doughnut with sriracha sauce drizzled on it. She also made the call to go to Shepherds Bush which had no footfall.

She's a stronger candidate than the other two though so can see why she was saved, Frank should have gone in a double sacking last week.

Croydon said:

Based on the task, I think the bird should have gone. Chilli chocolate is a completely different flavour to a chocolate doughnut with sriracha sauce drizzled on it. She also made the call to go to Shepherds Bush which had no footfall.

She's a stronger candidate than the other two though so can see why she was saved, Frank should have gone in a double sacking last week.

She was really impressive when running the kitchen, she led them really well once the PM had gone

At this stage, I also think that it's easy to target people who made a bad decision, when there are people hiding in the background who do and say nothing who should be getting the boot instead

The problem is she might have been on the right track - making a deluxe product. But Chilli chocolate isn't about pouring a load of chilli sauce over chocolate. It is getting the level right so there is just a suggestion of chilli. Probably because they try to undermine each other but they always make the same mistakes. BTW, if you have a team trying to undermine each other and you as team leader, it probably isn't the worst tactic to make decisions by vote to give ownership. You need leaders, but the format creates teams that are difficult if not impossible to lead. Maybe it is the editing - I suspect the show is edited to show Sugar in the best light and the contestants in the worst. His jokes about the cast were clearly scripted.

And to be fair, they made the call due to time and distance. Maybe they wasted too much time but that is another matter.

MuttleyCAFC said:

Ok, we have a Charlton life team in the apprentice - We have to make doughnuts we can sell at a premium - what are the considerations. I will suggest as a starter, it has to be based around a standard doughnut we could actually produce consistently, so where do we add the value. let's see if we are better than them?

Vegan, sell them at Old Street.

rina said:

Croydon said:

Based on the task, I think the bird should have gone. Chilli chocolate is a completely different flavour to a chocolate doughnut with sriracha sauce drizzled on it. She also made the call to go to Shepherds Bush which had no footfall.

She's a stronger candidate than the other two though so can see why she was saved, Frank should have gone in a double sacking last week.

Shepherd's Bush itself wasn't a bad decision. The bad decision was to go to Shepherd's Bush Green and annoy people eating their packed lunches rather than walk 200 metres to Europe's largest shopping centre and sell to the many thousands of people who are out shopping

That area between the tube station and Westfield is rammed full of potential customers.

Would they be allowed to go there or inside the shopping centre though?

killerandflash said:

rina said:

Croydon said:

Based on the task, I think the bird should have gone. Chilli chocolate is a completely different flavour to a chocolate doughnut with sriracha sauce drizzled on it. She also made the call to go to Shepherds Bush which had no footfall.

She's a stronger candidate than the other two though so can see why she was saved, Frank should have gone in a double sacking last week.

Shepherd's Bush itself wasn't a bad decision. The bad decision was to go to Shepherd's Bush Green and annoy people eating their packed lunches rather than walk 200 metres to Europe's largest shopping centre and sell to the many thousands of people who are out shopping

That area between the tube station and Westfield is rammed full of potential customers.

Would they be allowed to go there or inside the shopping centre though?

don't see the area by the tube being any different to the area they've gone to in previous episodes at Canary Wharf

My plan for this task- it's purely based on profit, Sir Lord Sugar doesn't care about who's got the best doughnuts and we don't need to worry about repeat custom, so I'm not going to waste half the day learning how to make them and then making them badly because there's nowhere near enough time to learn properly

I'm going to the supermarket and buying as many of the 5 for £1 jam doughnuts as I can get, decorating them with whatever we've got that's cheapest and then spending the rest of the day flogging them for a couple of quid and loads of profit

Find the nearest donut factory, ask to take their rejects and cast offs off their hands, call your business perfectly imperfect and sell all the misshapen, sloppy donuts you can with a couple of thrown together garnishes, pure profit. Sell them around brick lane/some other hipster trendy wanky place and watch the money roll in

MuttleyCAFC said:

You can get a tray of 12 iced doughnuts in Asda for £2.50 and they are actually pretty tasty. Buy the chocolate ones and add some chocolate liqueur like Mozart to the icing. Make some dark chocolate music note shapes and stick on the top. Call them Salzburg doughnuts and sell them for £5 each.

As a Charlton Life team member perhaps our USP could be a tray of 14?

Yeah but he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.