EVOLUTION OF SIOMAI VENDORS IN LIPA ROBINSONS AS OF 2019

Introduction

Siomai is one of the most famous street food in the Philippines and it is undeniably

all over the country. It is not actually from the philippines. Siomai,a traditional Chinese

dumpling,is believe originated from Hohhot, China.(Hsiung et al.,2005,p.38). Siomai is

made of egg noodle wrappers with meat.(Hsuing,2001,p.36). Now that siomai has

become a part of Filipino culture, Filipinos also made their own version of siomai.In

every part and corner of the philippines you can find different tastes and look.

In Robinson Lipa, siomai is one of the food you can find there. As the years passed

by siomai vendors are unknowingly growing and expanding.Through those years,

siomai vendors in Robinson Lipa have evolved a lot in different aspects. For example,

in the taste of the siomai, quality and price.There’s a lot of factors that affect the

evolution of the siomai vendors.We will seek information on how their business

evolved. It will be discussed later in this research.

 This study will benefit the society especially the young generation who will pursue

in doing a business in the near future.The importance of this study is to help young and

future entrepreneurs in managing their business.It could help them to strategize their

future business and help them to grow their business. Students like me who wants to

start a business can help us to improve and evolve are future business, whether it’s a

food business or not.In this research, we can find out the factors that can affect a

business that we might encounter in the future. It will help us to be more ready and

prepared because we will have an idea of growing a business. We can use this research

as a background knowledge in managing a business. We can also learn about customers’

needs and wants. In the future we can adapt the knowledge and help us make a lot of

regular and loyal customers.

The goal of this study is to know the evolution of siomai vendors in Lipa Robison

Lipa as of 2019. We will conduct this research in Siomai stores in Robinson Lipa at the

first quarter of 2020. The aspects that we will study is the evolution and innovation of

their product. We will also look into their customer service, especially in their regular

ones.This research will be done in a short period of time. The collection of data will be

done in a small size of customers, and only those who eat there since the start of 2019.

The respondents in the interview are the selected regular customers that help us collect

information in making a conclusion.Those customers who do not eat there from the

start of 2019 are not within the scope of our research. We will not cover the revenue of
the siomai stores because of the lack of statistical data. We will only look into the good

things, why their customers stay and expanded that help their business grow.

This research study will assume that all respondents are going to give a clear and

elaborated response. All respondents are all regular customers that knows different

tastes and kinds of siomai. All of them are regular because of a specific customer

service or taste of the siomai. We assume that there will be no bias answers, but only

answers that came from an experience. The study will assume that the answers given by

the respondents will help in finding out the evolutions that happen during the year

2019.

Before continuing doing this research, we should know the meaning of these words

that we might encounter. Siomai is a street food that can be found anywhere and it can

be eaten as a snack or a side dish. Regular customers are those who always buy in the

store frequently. Customer Service is how employees treat their customers. Business is

a work that can manage by one or more people.It depends on how many people are

involved in the business.