Just last December, I decided to be part of the business partnership with a few close friends and we came up with a Tapsilogan business. We rented a spot beside a residential house in Brgy. Villa Anita, City proper, and assumed that location to be ideal as it is surrounded by dormitories and boarding houses.

We expected to be competing with the nearby barbeque stands and carinderia but the planned student price in our menu might become attractive to the local populace.

I got involved on the first day of canvass and buying our materials, products, and appliances needed and it was quite exhausting. We spent most of the day roaming around the city and searching for the items on the list and also on the suppliers of the processed foods that we will be cooking in our menu. The experience was tiring but I learned a lot in terms of handing a food business.

For short details of our silogan info, we named it “Bisan Ano Lang” and it serves student-price budget silog meals as well as premium silog meals. By budget includes hotdog, chicken bilog, chorizo, and beef loaf. Our premium meals have smoked sausages, bacon, spam, and hungarian sausages which make it somewhat increased in value but not that pricey.

Here below is the complete list of our menu:

We operate from 6:30 am to 9:00 pm, Monday to Saturday and our location map is shown below.

It has been two months of operation and so far we are not hitting our sales target. January was hard on the local businesses and most suffered. I do not know the exact reason for that but I am hoping that we can recover this coming March. This food business is really tough and we had to consider other options in order to increase sales.

We will see what other plans we can come up with after our planned meeting this week.