Idea 39 of 500. Cluster 2: Sell the making, not the object
Village kitchen lunches, cooked with the family
The mechanism, from the book
The craft cannot be copied and the object can. In Europe people queue to watch glass being blown and then buy the glass.
Every idea in cluster 2 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Arrange one village lunch this week: a family cooks at home, guests help grate coconut and grind spices, and everyone eats together. Bring four guests from the nearest guesthouse at a trial price and pay the family most of it. The family's willingness to do it again, and the guests' reviews, are the proof.
- Who pays first
- Guesthouse and hotel guests who want to eat in a real home and meet a family, not sit in another restaurant.
- What leaves today
- Village households earn nothing from the visitors driving past; a paid lunch moves tourist spending into the village kitchen.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
In the book
- Ch. FiveThe Most Photographed Rock in the World
Courses instead of meals, the one the book would build first
More from cluster 2
Idea 39 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.