Career Presentation with Mr. Marsden

Mr. Marsden visited our class to talk to us about his career as a restaurant/catering business owner.  Mr. Marsden seems to have found his passion in this business.  He shared that he has been working in this business for over 20 years.  He started working in a restaurant before he went to college, but in college he decided to major in Management Information Systems.  After working in the field of Management Information Systems, Mr. Marsden realized his passion was really in the restaurant business.  Even though he changed his career path, he was able to apply what he learned in the business and management field to open his own restaurant.

The first graders learned that there are many jobs that Mr. Marsden has to do while at the restaurant, but there were also many decisions that had to made before the restaurant even opened.  What would the restaurant be called? What would be on the menu?  How would it be prepared?  What would the prices be? What would the restaurant look like?.... and many other decisions...

 Mr. Marsden shared that he has many employees, and the employees all have different roles in the restaurant.  Service is very important in the role of all of the employees.  Once the menus of his restaurant were passed out, the students were very intrigued with the menu items... of course this was right before lunch so students were asking directly for some of the tasty items on the menu. Mr. Marsden has invited us to come try out his restaurant.  We will definitely be doing that!

Thank you so much for coming to our classroom to talk to us about your career, Mr. Marsden!