🧵 Research Project Proposals - /general/
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 16:43:42 UTC No. 16276157
My project is simple: I wish to determine the optimal temperature to store fizzy drinks, i.e., coca cola, to provide cost savings without compromising customer enjoyment.
Background: Billions of servings of fizzy drinks are served every year from dispensers, restaurants and self-serve kiosks. Refrigeration is typically below 4.4°C.
Objective: Simple. Let's see at what point raising the temperature affects consumer satisfaction.
Method: We will store coca cola from 3°C to 10°C, in .25°C increments, and we will setup kiosks in 10 cities, and offer a drink to random people, contingent they fill out a few pieces of information and rate how the beverage tastes to them, with one rating on temperature of the beverage and another on level of "fizzyness".
Project cost: $10 million dollars.
Potential savings statement: for every 1 degree C we can save $150 million in refrigeration costs of fizzy drinks, offering a potential cost saving of $1 billion per year worldwide and its corresponding environmental impact abatement.
Kindly review this proposal. Feedback welcome. Thank you for your time. This is not a joke.
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:33:42 UTC No. 16276206
>>16276157
I will do it for 5 million.
Barkon Approved Post at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:37:39 UTC No. 16276211
1. Milk in cows udder stays fresh.
2. We don't need to refrigerate stuff, make it cold.
3. We need something chemical and biological.
4. Invent a new type of fresh source storage.
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:38:06 UTC No. 16276212
>>16276206
For 4.5 millions saars, I will do the needful
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:41:33 UTC No. 16276222
>>16276206
>>16276212
Not cool bros, create your own proposal
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:08:25 UTC No. 16276327
I could do this study for $3.9 million.
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:42:38 UTC No. 16276380
>>16276157
how do you plan to do your statistical data analysis? You simply say "we want to find the optimal temperature," but what does that imply? You take your data from all your kiosks, average out the satisfaction criteria, then put 10 data points, one for each city? How do you plan to randomly select your cities? Are you sure cola satisfaction is location independent? Are you sure 10 cities is normal by meeting the central limit theorem? Your study is making a lot of assumptions before you've even carried it out.
TL;DR the question is fine, but your method of data collection could use a lot of work.
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:55:17 UTC No. 16276401
>>16276157
>This is not a joke.
You posted this on a mongolean basket weaving forum.
(You) are the joke
can I just say WTF is wrong with dumpsters?
Yes NYC is a big city that makes a large volume of trash. Which is why putting it in small bins you see on the curb of suburbs makes no sense or at the very least is questionable Is it $4million dollars questionable though? Well no. You just need bigger bins. Take advantage of that square cube law. But we already have bigger bins. They're called dumpsters!!!! WTF is wrong with New York that it took them $4million to reinvent the dumpster?
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 20:02:13 UTC No. 16276411
>Kindly review this proposal.
Good morning saars
Stop guessing start learning at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 20:09:06 UTC No. 16276429
>>16276157
This sounds like a homework assignment be cause most machines have ice dispensers keeping the drinks cold. So there would be no need to keep the soda any temperature because the ice will cool it down.
Anyways the optimal temperature would be whatever the customer likes at the point of focus testing. I cannot test something through words on a screen.
This post is dumb. Because it has no logical application for anyone
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:13:56 UTC No. 16276539
>>16276157
I could do this study for 6m but produce actual cost saving results
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:25:26 UTC No. 16276557
>>16276429
Your post reeks of Reddit damnn lurk moar for at least 15 years before posting.
Stop guessing start learning at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 22:24:30 UTC No. 16276640
>>16276557
Are you mad that you’re dumb and have no real argument against me besides insults.
Cope and seethe faggot
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 22:35:13 UTC No. 16276645
>>16276157
NYC produces a lot of garbage. 4 million is a reasonable price to pay for the labor and analysis. My instinct says it's better without the bins this way you don't have splattered rat guts everywhere in your dump trucks which would require constant upkeep that costs $$$$$$
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 22:40:46 UTC No. 16276649
>>16276645
it seems like a case of , if it ain't broke don't fix it. ... But there may be more efficient techniques which will be beneficial in the long term. $4 MM isn't entirely unreasonable for such a study.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 01:59:12 UTC No. 16276812
>>16276380
Since he talks about cost-savings, optimal probably means highest net profits. Which would then mean type of cooler, amount of liquid, cost of electricity, ambient temperature and by extension time of year, loss of brand value (lower sales) are all factors. Raising temperature a few degrees above 4°C makes the drink undesirable. Optimization potential is marginal with the downside risk of complicating operation with smart coolers.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:12:02 UTC No. 16277223
>>16276812
Couple this to the fact that soda brand can't target their recipe to taste better at higher temperatures - the addition of ice will bring the beverage down to a single nominal value - makes market penetration is limited. They could consider alternative recipes for bottling, but most refrigeration of bottled product will be done by consumers.
My 9.9 million dollar alternative study, that is much better in every way and leads to an actionable result, would be to determine spoilage temperatures of the syrup. The franchise can then run their coolers for longer, but instead of the money saved in energy, we will have a freshness sticker added to the bag that implicitly mandates more frequent changes. And in this way, my patrons are also the benefactors of the study. Consider also that companies will use more ice and reducing product per serving. The value streams are multiple, Coke I am talking to you.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:13:56 UTC No. 16277701
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:17:13 UTC No. 16277709
>>16277701
imagine living in NY and not revolting in protest at the psychotic destruction while gaslighting you this state causes
fuck this shit, all men should become zen monks and kneel in the street silently it's that or we die or you run
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:27:36 UTC No. 16277727
>colonize the moon
>turn mercury into a mining factory
>build simple dyson harrop satellites that can produce more power than we could ever need
>dig a river through australia
>build a coastal megacity in england and norway
>please build some new cool planes, they haven't evolved for 50 years
>more nuclear power
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:52:28 UTC No. 16277770
>>16276157
>Billions of servings of fizzy drinks are served...
well, you see, that's where we have a problem as a species.
Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 03:35:52 UTC No. 16278187
>>16276157
Colas, pops and sodas are stored in refrigerators next to other beverages such as iced teas and water. Need more dimensions
Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 05:08:27 UTC No. 16278246
>>16276401
The $4 million is for an outside consultant to give the city the answer that it wants. This is very common with "management consulting". Internal politics prevents an organization from making a decision so they use an outside "expert" to pronounce a certain course of action to be the correct one. Everyone agrees that this course of action must be the correct one, after all, it came from a very expensive third party who couldn't charge this much if they didn't know what they were doing.
Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 07:54:15 UTC No. 16278425
>>16276640
you are a namefag, newfag. That itself is the only argument required. Explode.
Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 08:12:51 UTC No. 16278444
>>16276211
>1. Milk in cows udder stays fresh.
No it doesn't or we wouldn't have to screen, pasteurize, and sanitize it before it is fit for consumption. There may be incidents where you could drink straight from the udder, but that is a good way to get sick because you have no idea how fresh and healthy it is.
Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:57:50 UTC No. 16278564
>>16276645
>it's better without the bins this way you don't have splattered rat guts everywhere in your dump trucks
What? Why would people stop throwing dead rats in the trash just because there are no bins? Are you grinding up rats and drinking rodent smoothies or something?
Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 05:12:26 UTC No. 16279907
>>16278564
In New York they grill the rats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVl
Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 06:55:49 UTC No. 16281075
>>16278444
no, you're completely wrong about that, it doesn't come into contact with the bacteria that can make it go bad until it meets the outside air
Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 07:49:42 UTC No. 16281115
>>16276411
>Only Indians use the word "kindly"