The Grade 9's went on an outing to a new Cafe in Masi called "Tribe". It was part of their exploration into Entrepreneurial skills. They went for coffee and a meal and needed to report their findings on whether they feel the business will succeed as well as other criteria they were given.
Below are their "brief' summaries for this blog. Their complete reports are done in class.
The visitors report on their time at TRIBE:
“What an
amazing experience with all my friends. Apart from the dread and nerves on
going to this place. We got there and we were told that there was no firewood
to start the fire to cook the fish. Then we were told there was no electricity.
I decided to be sarcastic and pick up my phone and said that I was going to
call Mugg & Bean™ and tell them to keep me a table and that I will be there in 5 minutes. Finally after about
2min the electricity was on and then they could make us a latte. Best coffee I
have ever had in a while! Then we could sit down enjoy our coffee and ask
questions. The service was excellent and I really enjoyed my time there.” – SB -
“It was ok,
but there was no electricity. Anyway he had another ideas like burning wood to
make a fire, he used the fire to cook. So we learned how to make a fire and
braai fish and most of the people had a sheeps head and it was great seeing the
white people eat at a place without being a Judge “Muffin”. They said they
enjoyed it hey. The coffee was amazing
hey. It’s the best coffee ever you should go and give it a try. Go in Masi and
support the black African man! With his Café business!!” -RM -
“I really enjoyed going to the café. It was different and special.
What I liked about going on the outing was the food, the logo, the way we ate,
seeing our friends and drinking the coffee. I found it really interesting how
Clement made the coffee. He used a big industrial coffee machine to brew it.
Then he added the froth and then started with the patterns. The way he did it
went something like this: He had some milk in a little metal jug which he
poured into the coffee and as he did it, he moved the jug in the motion of the
pattern that he wanted to make and that made the pattern. Some were nice and
simple where others were so awesome and complicated, like Jordan’s coffee. It
had a plant-like thing with two little hearts growing out from the left hand
side. Then it had the leaves near the top. Another thing I liked was the
difference in the food. It wasn’t like your normal everyday food that you eat
for dinner or anything. It was special as in sheep’s head in olive sauce and
chicken feet! Talk about different! Some of us ordered the sheep’s head, while
others (like me and Jordan) ordered the snoek braai. We both tried some of our
Teachers’ smiley, Ben almost… Yes, I’m not going to continue. The sheep’s head
was quite nice; not quite what I expected. I’ll just say one more thing. The
chairs (I thought) were pretty cool. They were different and Clement made them
himself. I think that that is being very creative. I really enjoyed going. I
would not mind going again for a cup of coffee.” –KS-
“We went to
the tribe in Masi. It was an interesting experience of African food. The café was an African theme and had wood
chairs that looked like the bark of a tree. The big disadvantage was having to
wait for our food for an hour. We were entertained by coffee making skills in a
coffee machine I AM SURE Masi has never seen before. In the end, it was worth
the wait as we had Sheep head, Braai’d snoek and vetkoek.
Over all, would really encourage him to work on time management and maybe
having some chips with his snoek. Well done, the lattes were absolutely
amazing. A coffee maker of note!” –LS-
“Going to The
Masi Café was really fun. The Café is owned by Clement he used to work at Food
Lovers Market as a barista. He decided to start a coffee shop in Masi and
called it ‘Tribe’. It is a really beautiful coffee shop with natural wood furniture
that Clement made himself. The walls are painted green and he has pretty
pictures and decorations hanging on the wall. He also has his logo on the wall;
it was a big one that was made of coffee beans.
The vet koek I had was really good.” – SO -
“These are my following thought
about the tribe café:
The service was okay it was not
excellent though, although he did come ask “how is the meal.”
When we first arrived there, we were
welcomed with no electricity and no fire wood so we could not be served right
away, we had to wait quite a while and only started to eat 20 minutes before we
had to leave to come back to school. which was not great at all, I would have
much rather had more time to relax and eat and enjoy the time.
The tables were slanted and were hard to set a
cup of coffee on as there were a few people that had complained about that,
because the cup would fall off.
The lay out of the shop was very
artistic and made me feel very comfortable.
The food tasted great except I would
have liked to put salt on it but I could not as there was a little girl that
was walking around sucking on the bottle of salt, which made me not interested
to use it.
They should have made the lay out of
the food much better, because there would be different cultures coming in and
would not be used to eating with there hands and dishing up themselves.
The best out of all 3 food choices,
the vetkoek was the best.
And last of all is the price vs. the value of
the food, was not cost effective and we paid far too much for what we got.
Over all the café was very wonderful
and enjoyable to go to, so I would say I had a great time and enjoyed the new
experienced.
I would definitely like to go there
again but there would have to be more changes to make it more adventurous and
interesting to have a fun, relaxing and pleasant time.” –CG-
“On Thursday
20 Jun 2013 our 9thgrade class went to tribe café in Masi. Tribe has been open for just 2
months. As a coffee shop in Masi Clement is trying to introduce
his love of coffee into the African culture.
In my opinion, I really enjoyed the coffee. The food I highly recommend
the sheep’s head it is extremely flavourful and delish for those who like sheep’s
head or if you are just looking for a unique wonderful experience.” -JH-
