Great idea for a (slightly odd) new business venture

BillJones

Remmeber, you'll need to warn people that your peanut suit may contain nuts.

Flyonthewall

fufu_banterwaite wrote: »

2. If you're running around how are you expecting people to catch you? You don't want to annoy them.
I am quite a fast runner, but for the purposes of this business I will adjust my speed accordingly. Ie if I am at an old people’s home I will go at 50% of my normal speed to allow for people in wheelchairs, on zimmer frames and with walking sticks, etc.

Fair enough. Could awkward for disabled people to actually be able to get any peanuts though even if they can keep with you.

Perhaps another thought would be not just do they want to chase after you, but do you really want them chasing after you? I mean, you'll get all sorts of people if it does turn out to be something people want to do. Do you really want kids jumping at you or old people poking you with a stick. for example? lol.

3. £1 may not seem much but for a few peanuts that's very expensive.
They will get 5 minutes though, so it could end up being better value for money than you think.

You'll be limited to how many peanuts can fit on the suit. Will you limit the number of people going after you at once so people stand more of a chance? Will you have more than one suit prepared in case there's a lot of people? I imagine it would take a while to create the suits?

For most people buying a bag of peanuts would they eat them all in one go? If not, they're unlikely to want to eat many off the suit therefore making the £1 expensive. I know you are paying partly for the fun of chasing but what's to stop people in the office putting on a silly hat and doing that for free?

Thanks for the feedback though really appreciated and has given me some food (no pun intended!) for thought.

No problem :rotfl:

Would you be relying on people contacting you or would you go around places in hope they want that?

Although £1 may be expensive to the customer depending on how you look at it, is £1 enough to you? If only a couple of people want to do it will that £1 pay for the peanuts, your time and travel costs?

PenguinOfDeath

Salted or Dry Roasted?

Malkin157

What are you going to do if you encounter pigeons, monkeys or elephants?

FBaby

Oh dear, I can see this resulting in suing for sexual discrimination.... how will you discourage eager men going over very specific areas of your bodies...after all, when you run and try to avoid them, it is not their fault if their hands end up trying to pick at things in strategic places.... or where it is the only place left with items to pick... although thankfully, you might get those who will feel disgusted at the idea of picking food from places that are only one item of clothing short from body contact....

KiKi

You might want to be careful with the whole idea. People might think you're hanging around the office waiting to be assaulted.

(See what I did there.)

Flyonthewall

Malkin157 wrote: »

What are you going to do if you encounter pigeons, monkeys or elephants?

Yeah, always annoying when the elephants in the office and stealing your peanuts...

FBaby wrote: »

Oh dear, I can see this resulting in suing for sexual discrimination.... how will you discourage eager men going over very specific areas of your bodies...after all, when you run and try to avoid them, it is not their fault if their hands end up trying to pick at things in strategic places.... or where it is the only place left with items to pick... although thankfully, you might get those who will feel disgusted at the idea of picking food from places that are only one item of clothing short from body contact....

Good point with this.

duchy

Nah the one person in every office who has a nut allergy (every office has one) will sue you . You'd never get liability insurance.

red_devil

Never share ideas unless you have an nda agreement,

fufu_banterwaite

I am beginning to see more and more problems with this. Thanks for the feedback everyone.

So basically the consensus is that it is a no go?