🍔🍟 Fast Food Feedback Feast
Welcome to the Fast Food Feedback Feast! Let's serve up our project insights like a delicious fast-food menu. Celebrate the sizzling moments, address the sour bites, and cook up a recipe for success together!
Template Columns
🍔 Delicious Bites
Share the moments that were sizzling and successful in our project.
Base column: Glad🍿 Burnt Popcorn
Highlight the areas that went slightly off and left a stale taste.
Base column: Sad🌭 Overcooked Hotdogs
Vent about the situations or processes that felt overdone or frustrating.
Base column: MadAbout this template
Engage your team with the Fast Food Feedback Feast, an interactive and fun retrospective format drawing analogies from a fast-food menu to discuss project highs, lows, and areas for improvement.
When to use this template
Use this template when you're looking for a lighthearted yet reflective session to evaluate project progress, team dynamics, or after a significant milestone.
How to facilitate
Start by explaining the theme of the retrospective, emphasizing the comparison to a fast-food menu and the importance of candidly sharing thoughts.
Introduce each column: Delicious Bites for successes and achievements, Burnt Popcorn for areas that lacked perfection, and Overcooked Hotdogs for issues or frustrations.
Encourage the team to write their thoughts on sticky notes or cards for each category. Allow 10–15 minutes to gather ideas.
One by one, review each card in Delicious Bites. Celebrate achievements and explore how these successes can be repeated.
Proceed to Burnt Popcorn. Discuss ways to refine processes or ensure better outcomes in the next iteration.
Finally, address Overcooked Hotdogs. Identify problems, assess their impact, and discuss actionable improvement plans.
Conclude with a recap and identify 1–3 action points to implement for future improvements.
Thank the team for their participation and ensure collective understanding of the action steps.
Pro Tips
Encourage concise, specific contributions to examples shared across each column.
Balance discussion time across all categories to ensure each topic is thoroughly addressed.
Foster a psychologically safe environment for sharing Burnt Popcorn and Overcooked Hotdogs insights.
FAQ
How do I manage overly negative comments?
Acknowledge the concerns, steer the conversation towards constructive outcomes, and ensure solutions are discussed.
What if my team struggles to participate in themed retrospectives?
Clarify the analogy briefly, providing examples, and remind your team to focus on the retrospective's objectives.
How do I ensure actionable outcomes from this retrospective?
Dedicate time to summarizing key takeaways and agreeing on 1–3 actionable items before concluding.
At a glance
- Duration
45–60 minutes
- Team Size
3-10 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
Glad, Sad, Mad
Tags
Ready to get started?
Use this template to run your next retrospective