CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................. 2

PERSONAL BACKGROUND ............................................................................................................... 2

BUSINESS BACKGROUND................................................................................................................. 3

THE TURNING POINT ......................................................................................................................... 4

ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPENTICIES ............................................................................................. 4

PERSONAL INITIATIVE.................................................................................................................. 4

SEIZE OPPORTUNITIES .................................................................................................................. 4

INFORMATION-SEEKER ................................................................................................................ 5

HIGH WORK QUALITY................................................................................................................... 6

SELF-CONFIDENCE......................................................................................................................... 6

PICTURES.............................................................................................................................................. 7

CONCLUSION ..................................................................................................................................... 10

REFERENCES ..................................................................................................................................... 11
INTRODUCTION
An entrepreneur is an individual who creates a new business, bearing most of the risks
and enjoying most of the rewards. The entrepreneur is commonly seen as an innovator, a source
of ideas, goods, services, and business or procedure. The word entrepreneur came from France
word entreprendre which mean ‘to take’ or ‘to try’. There is also mention that an entrepreneur
is an individual who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business (Kuratko and
Hodgetts, 2001).

In this case study, we need to make a case study about one local entrepreneur icon in
Sabah who runs a successful business. Thus, we need to find a truly local Sabahan entrepreneur.
After a group discussion and brainstorming is made, we choose a grill and burger restaurants
which is Grill Patio. This business grew up in the middle of Kota Kinabalu. We choose Grill
Patio as our study because it is barely for us to see that restaurant without customer and for
sure we know that the owner of this business also a local Sabahan entrepreneur.

PERSONAL BACKGROUND
The personal background of the owner Grill Patio (Bandaran Outlet) is a young woman
name Hariati Binti Aminudin. Her age is 20 years old. She is been running her brother’s
business for a couple years. While managing her outlet at Bandaran, she still studying in Kolej
Teknikal Yayasan Sabah at Yayasan Sabah. She was born at Kampung Petagas. She is the
youngest siblings among her brothers. Her father is a retired policeman and her mother is
fulltime housewife.

The real owner of this business is her brother among her siblings. She didn’t tell about
her brother’s name and age but did tell us about his brother business chronology. Before her
brother start his own business, he started work as a chef at Upperstar Restaurant. He worked
there without any culinary certificate or competencies.
 After working at Upperstar Restaurant, he then resigned from being a chef and make
his career path into oil and gas which is work at offshore. The major of the offshore work are
not mention by her sister. Yet after a couple years on an oil rig, he changed his mind to make
his own business by opening a stall called Grill Patio.

BUSINESS BACKGROUND
Grill patio was first established in 2011. It was founded by her brother who are
interested in cooking. Firstly, it was only for his hobby to set up a burger stall. But after
receiving positive feedback, he tried to make a bigger stall and rent a restaurant to allow
customer eat their burger on the spot. Their first stall is only a small stall or we called it as
“burger ramly’s stall”. They only have takeaway service. Their stall is run by 2 of their siblings.
To set up their stall, they need roughly RM 10,000 to start their business. Luckily, their parents
loaned to them and their parents help them. Their parents provided the funds to buy the goods
they needed. Their parents forbid them to loan a bank because they can help financially.

After years selling burgers, they open a burger shop and it is located at Bandaran, Kota
Kinabalu and it was the first shop they opened after the stall. The profits of selling burgers for
a day is around RM 1200 and their modal to buy meat, buns, sauce and so on is around RM
1000 and it lasts normally for two weeks. Their shop is very popular among the adults and
teenagers. They often promote the shop and help to improve their sales. After their first burger
shop is successful, they opened their shop branch and today they have 4 burger shops including
the first shop. The shop is handled by their siblings and they enlarge their business by doing
delivery around the area. They hire a bunch of employees to help with their business. All of
their shop is successful and today the shop is still running their business.
THE TURNING POINT

ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPENTICIES

PERSONAL INITIATIVE
An entrepreneur who is successful takes strong initiatives because he/she has
the tendency to look at and analyze any situations or circumstances effectively. An
entrepreneur who has strong personal initiative is able to act immediately on available
opportunities and chooses the best strategy when he faces a problem.

The owner of Grill Patio resigned from one of the oils and gas company only
for a small business by opening a small burger stall. He thinks that begin with small
business can make him success compare to oil and gas that works on oil rig and sacrifice
his great time with family by working offshore.

He is an entrepreneur that also using his own money which also his own salary
from his previous work. All the money was invested to rent, raw material, and etc. He
not seeking for help from anyone but with family love, his parents also helping him out
to ensure his own business is expanding.

SEIZE OPPORTUNITIES
A successful entrepreneur grabs or seizes opportunities continuously to make
sure that his business sustains for a long time in the industry. He/she focuses, identifies,
and exploits new business opportunities, and seizes unusual chances to obtain
financing, equipment, land, work space or assistance.

Believe and determination that’s what are inside this owner. He believes that
local people in Sabah love burgers and western foods which is a current trend in Kota
Kinabalu. Before he opens his own outlet, there was only a few restaurants served grill
food in Kota Kinabalu. Without any hesitation, he made a stall that only at the corner
of a restaurant and make grill food and now it is a successful business.

INFORMATION-SEEKER
A successful entrepreneur is able to seek information by ding research to obtain
the information that he needs and by receiving feedback from customers in order to
provide a good product or service that can gain customer’s satisfaction and acceptance.
He/she consults experts or experienced persons, uses contacts or information network,
and personally undertakes market research, analysis or investigation to obtain useful
information.

Upperstar Restaurants is a place which this owner gained his knowledge about
culinary especially in grill and western food. He grabs that opportunities by learning
the recipe of homemade burger. Not only the burgers, he also learned how to cook lamb
to ensure the lamb are tender. All the patties and lamb are marinade with homemade
sauce and flavor. Source from internet also helps him to make a recipe by his own.
HIGH WORK QUALITY
A successful entrepreneur places care on quality and can be seen as having the
urge to sell or produce products of high quality. He/she states a desire to produce or sell
a top-quality product or service. He/she always makes a comparison of his work quality
with those of others to make sure his products are always better. He/she makes sure that
he is not only doing a job but also doing it in the best way possible to produce products
of the best quality.

Grill Patio’ owner always mention ‘maintaining our taste and flavor is our
priority’ when we interviewed her. In Bandaran outlet, the worker of the restaurant wear
gloves when cook the food to ensure the hygiene of the food are in control. They also
open for delivery service. The respond from the worker to the customer are good and
the boss always help them out when peak time is arrived. They take all the feedbacks
from their Facebook page and Instagram to ensure the quality and taste of food are
good.

SELF-CONFIDENCE
A successful entrepreneur is a person who has great confidence in his skills and
capabilities. As a result, others will also become confident of the entrepreneur and his
business. A successful entrepreneur who has confidence in himself and believes in his
skills and capabilities to achieve what he desires. He tends to be optimistic about his
chances of success.

Skills and taste make this owner believe and confident that his own recipe will
attract the fellow customers to constantly come to his outlet. With his confidence, it
proves that with non-stop serving the food his customer. He also believes by gaining
his knowledge in culinary will help him out to expand his small business. Thus, he
opened more outlet in Kota Kinabalu which at Foh Sang, Servay Putatan, Cyber City
and Menggatal.
PICTURES

PICTURE OF PREMISE
Picture of Staff
Picture of group members with the Grill Patio’s owner
CONCLUSION
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