uSnacks is Born: Part 3 of 3
This is part 3 of a 3 part series on the philosophy and birth of uSnacks. Enjoy.
Why uSnacks?
If this concept is so great why doesn’t it exist already? This is the great question which we have been mulling over since we started building uSnacks. We don’t know for sure, but we have a few ideas. First, there are currently a few schools where students have put together websites that sell snacks, however these websites have not gained much traction outside of their respective schools. We believe that the websites are clunky, poorly styled, and fail to recognize they are selling to college students not techno geeks. We believe that good design is imperative. Secondly, none of these sites were designed with expansion in mind, therefore they are incapable of dealing with the demands of hosting hundreds of unique operations across the country. uSnacks is different. We built the uSnacks platform from the ground up with the latest Internet technologies in order to accommodate hundreds of unique operations across the country, while allowing each operation to run things the way they want. Our model is different than 99% of “franchising” companies. Our rationale for this is simple, each school is different, and we feel it would be quite arrogant to assume we would know how to run their operation better than the people who actually live at the school. With this in mind, all uSnacks operations are completely autonomous and are able to seamlessly manage their products, customers, sales, and orders with Springboard. We built Springboard from the ground up as a revolutionary new web application designed for uSnacks managers emphasizing ease of use.