Business Paper
Widener University
One University Place
Chester, PA 19013
MEMO TO: Professor Tara E. Friedman
FROM: Albert Muller Jr.
DATE: October 21, 2014
SUBJECT: Approval for Proposal Topic
I would like to prepare a proposal on expanding more restaurants in Widener University.
Here is my preliminary plan.
My role: I am Business student for (company/group).
My reader: Dr. James T. Harris (President of Widener University)
Reader’s use of information in proposal:
As we all know that eating-places in Widener University are really limited. For those students who living in the campus, they will be suffering when Dining hall did not serve tasty food on that day. The problem is that those hungry students probably will spend a lot of time to find another restaurant in which is far away from the school. Therefore, as a business student in Widener, would like to help expanding more restaurants in the campus.
May I have your approval for this topic?
To: James T. Harris (President of Widener University)
From: Jiabo Feng
Date: Nov 3, 2014
In order to improve the quality of students’ life in Widener University, I write this paper to propose a solution to an obvious problem in main campus. The problem is that majority of students and teachers only have one or two options for the breakfast, dinner, and lunch in the main campus. The most significant impact is that those students who do not like the restaurants in the main campus probably will spend a lot of time and money to find another restaurant in which is far away from the school. Obviously, this is neither safety nor convenience. Another potential impact is that the quality of education might decrease when the school dining hall did not serve taste food on that day. As we all know that student probably will have some problem to pay attention to professor’s lecture during in the class time when they were hungry. Furthermore, the statistic shows that there is about 4748 students attend Widener University in the main campus in 2014. This is mean that including Widener Staff and guests, sometime, Dining hall need to server more than 5000 people every day. For my personal experience, during lunchtime, most of students need to wait about 20 minutes in the University Center and 5 minutes for each table in Dining Hall. The time is impersonal but if you want to take a burger that is the most popular one in the Dining hall, you might need to wait for more than 10 minutes.
In addition, a research shows that eating well will affect people’s moods; starving people will be easier to developed negative feelings such as angry, nerves, anxiety and depressed.
As a consequence, in order to help students succeed in their life in the Widener University, I suggest that we should try expanding all kinds of restaurants in the main campus. In the following, the paper will introduce two different plans and explain the advantage and disadvantages.