Restaurants Course Works Samples For Students

1.  Executive summary

Sysco Corp (SYY) is the leading foodservice distributor in the world, headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company has achieved gradual growth since it was founded in 1969. Some of Sysco’s growth strategies include acquisitions and developing a wide product line. The company generates its revenues through its four major segments; the Broadline, Specialty companies, International, and SYGMA segments. However, the company is in a dynamic and highly competitive foodservice distribution industry. It is therefore fundamental for Sysco to evaluate the external and industry factors that could affect the growth of the company and constantly come up with ...

Conduct online research on the case Pelman v. McDonald's in which it was alleged that McDonald's was partially responsible for the health problems associated with the obesity of children who eat McDonald's fast food. Should McDonald's and other fast food restaurants be judged negligent for selling dangerous products, failing to warn consumers of the dangers of a high fat diet, and deceptive advertising?

The case of Pelman V. McDonald’s was based on the type of food that is served by the fast food restaurant. The main issue was that McDonald’s failed to warn its ...

Software as a service can be defined as a software distribution model in which an application is proposed by the provider to serve as a service on demand (Laudon and Traver, 2011). Third party ASPs (Application service providers) are responsible for providing the licenses (Laudon and Traver, 2011). SaaS would be very attractive for the restaurants due to the fact that as clients, they would only have to subscribe for a fee to get the software functionality online; rather than having to purchase the software, and have it installed on their computers (Laudon and Traver, 2011). The cost for the technology such as ...

East coast fisheries in Canada were no strangers to exporting, with $2.3 billion in product, mostly lobster, going to the United States. New transportation technology was opening up an efficient way for them to reach Europe - the largest seafood market in the world.

Love That Lobster

Canada leads the world in production of lobster (20%) and in exports about 33% of the total produced. Canada has a competitive advantage because of a productive fishery on the east coast and the desirability of the lobsters there.

While many recipes make use of lobsters or lobster parts, whole live lobsters are considered a special treat. A ...

Executive Summary

The strategic plan of Pepsi aims at establishing a clear vision and defined goals of how to maintain market leadership of Pepsi and how it has been able to be the best employer in the recent past. Pepsi Co majority of the times had a dominant position in the market, however, at the same time, it has also faced intense competition from its rival, Coca- Cola. The one type of change that it has experience in the last five years is its Diversity Inclusion Project which is now being led by CEO, Indra Nooyi, who has also been a major transformation in ...

P1: Marketing is a social process, which identifies, forecasts and satisfies the needs of the customers in a profitable way. Marketing strategies are overall plans, which fulfill the needs of the customers . Marketing techniques ensure the effective delivery of a market plan. The three marketing techniques available are growth strategies, survival strategies and branding techniques. The four categories of growth strategies are “market penetration, market development, product development and diversification” . Market penetration refers to increasing the number of consumers buying the product. Market development refers to marketing an existing product to a new market. Product development refers to selling a ...

In my maiden tour of the restaurant, I noted certain matters that needed urgent attention in order to guarantee the safety of the investment, staff and the customers. This letter is written to you in order to inform you of the potential dangers that emanate from the continued disrepair of the restaurant. My correspondence with the manager of the dining room revealed that previously, the focus has been on the guests and the dining room. The following is a summary of the potential dangers in the restaurant.

The trees around the restaurant have not been pruned so that the branches ...

Question 1

Non equivalent Control Group Design – in this type of quasi experimental design both the treatment group and the comparison group are compared with the use of pretest and posttest data. The researcher can confidently have her claim regarding the effect of the treatment when the above groups are similar in the pretest measures but different in the post test measures.

Non equivalent Interrupted time series Group design – in this design, the researcher looks into a sequence of observations made before and after the treatment. Treatment effect takes place takes place when sudden changes occur during the implementation of ...

What You Can Learn from Starbucks
http://www.inc.com/resources/marketing/articles/20050401/starbucks.html

Starbucks is an experienced company that serves good quality coffee, and besides this it delivers great customer service, from which managers have only but to learn, as Adam Hanft, the writer of the article “What Can You Learn from Starbucks” observes after analyzing the setting and the environment that Starbuck creates for its clients. The author of this article provides some useful customer service related advices based on his own Starbucks experience and he encourages managers to use them or to go visit the nearest Starbucks whenever they need to ...

History

There are many historic stories of Houston city and the old, established neighborhoods and new subdivision tell a lot of the historic stories of the city found in Texas State. According to the city residents I got a chance to interview, he told me that the founders of the city Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen named the city after a General Sam Houston in 1837. The city of Houston is termed as a Freedmen's Town because it hosts many African Americans and it has significant value due to the general name after him. He was one of the liberal military ...

“BA First Year”

Everybody loves the works of nature, but when these works all found in one place then there is a scramble towards this place. This place is unique and one of the most decorated Nature has to offer. This information sheet will offer all the information about Arran Isle. From its location, information on accommodation, travel, natural resources, activities and food found in restaurants and cafes. This will help in understanding various aspects of the isle when touring and get to visit the best sites and sample the most thrilling adventures in Arran.

Arran Isle

Also referred to as The Scotland miniature, the ...

Americans and Japanese mingled very well in the second war leading to merging of culture in both sides. These affected the two types of food they ate and how the food was prepared. Japanese eating styles changed by the introduction of MacDonald. The company introduced a lot of food stuffs that was in Japan previously (Watson, 167). This led to the change in menus in restaurants and other social laces. The introduction of fast foods the Asia was a new thing that changed the style of preparing food from their traditional way of cooking. This led to hamburger becoming a Japanese traditional ...

- Take your “jottings” you made during 1.5 hours of observation and type them into a narrative of what you observed (This means that you should write descriptive text of what you observed. You must write in complete sentences). The minimum length for this part of the assignment is 2 single-spaced pages of text. You may include photographs at the end of the document, but these are optional and do not count toward the page requirement.

Filipino Food and Their Culture

The place for this participant-observation exercise is an ethnic restaurant. It serves breakfast and lunch and is opened until 6:30 pm. The dishes sold ...

1. Critically evaluate the following suggestion: “If the price elasticity of demand for food is low, therefore if you own a restaurant, you can charge higher price to increase revenue”.

Consumers’ sensitivity to price is known as the price elasticity of demand. Simply put, it measures the degree of responsiveness of consumers to a given change in price. A good with an elastic demand will have a value greater than 1 and will experience that people are very sensitive to a given change in price. Products with an inelastic demand will find that even if price increases by a small amount, the quantity ...

Change: The Expected and The Unexpected

It has been said time and again that nothing in this world is constant, except for change. Change is not a question of “if it will happen” but “when it will happen”. We are all up for changes at different points in our lives, and it really is futile to resist change. Instead, we should equip ourselves with the right tools such that we can deal with the changes in our lives, when they happen. Sometimes we are given a heads up; thus, enabling us to prepare ourselves. However, sometimes change comes to us by surprise. And because we ...

Introduction to Business

- Advantages and disadvantages of Mc Donald’s ringing up sales in so many foreign currencies worldwide

The advantages of Mc Donald’s operations in so many regions include the ability of the company to face the economic downturn as it may affect some regions of the world, while the otger regions of the world may remain unaffected with the economic downturn or may be less affected. At the time of the US economic recession, the company benefited from the increase in sales in the Asia region that balanced the loss in sales in the US region.

The company has the ability to adapt itself to various tastes of customers in different regions of the world. ...

McDonald’s is a renowned multinational company prominent with running fast foods and restaurants. The company has operations in nearly 119 countries worldwide and serves almost 68 million customers per day. McDonald’s is headquartered in America. The company’s operating models restaurants includes subsidiaries, franchises, or business operated stores.

McDonalds capitalizes in demonstrating increased customer service across its various outlets and this culture has enabled the company to increase its competitors. Customer service relations has been critical in attracting and retaining customers across its various outlets. An observational culture that one would notice on entering into any McDonald’s ...

Part 1

The strategy adopted by MacDonald’s is effective in a competitive market. The organization has added variety of foods into its menu and removed some foods that were regarded as unhealthy. The company has decided to go for healthier foods. The organization has improved on the use of technology to cater for its tech-savvy clients (Dean Robinson, 201). The improved food quality, ambience and the use technology has given Macdonald a competitive edge. Similarly, increased marketing through advertisement has also improved the uptake of its food products.

The organization has removed some foods from its menu and replaced them with healthier ...

Social responsibility refers to a firm’s capability to respond to issues beyond economic, technical and legal requirements to achieve social advantage coupled with the profit that the firm seeks. Corporate social responsibility has been the back of senior managers, but this has since changed to the firm’s agenda a whole. Corporate social responsibility is not an individual action because the manager alone cannot be entrusted to ensure the integration of the firm with the society in which it operates.

The concept of corporate social responsibility is majorly on the concept of stakeholder. This refers to any group or individual ...

Abstract

The Purpose of this report is to analyze and evaluate various services of The Edge Restaurant and prepare exiting and potential blueprint of the services. The services of The Edge Restaurant are evaluated and determined on five dimensions of quality.

Introduction

Restaurant business is continuously growing at a fast pace. Change in consumer habits and preference towards eating out is fueling the growth of industry. Development in restaurant business also attracts new entrants in the industry. Continuously increasing competition increases customer’s expectations in terms of excellent services at affordable prices. Restaurant business is completely service based; hence it is essential ...

- Burger King.

Vision: Burger King has more or less retained the same vision it had when the then known ‘Insta- Burger King’ restaurant was transformed by the two franchisees, James McLamore and David Edgerton into Burger King in 1954. The original Burger King vision was “Offering reasonably priced quality food, served quickly, in attractive, clean surroundings.”  Now, over the last sixty odd years, the company’s vision has morphed into a more consumer oriented approach with its “Have it your way” campaign. The new vision statement is “We proudly serve the best burgers in the business , plus a ...

Introduction

Since its emergence in the 1950s, the field of community development has emphasized resident participation in decision-making and leadership. From a normative perspective, resident participation is an end in itself. From an instrumental standpoint, the knowledge, skills, and energy that resident participants bring to initiatives are seen as invaluable to the achievement of meaningful outcomes. Most rural communities in the United States do not have the chance to enjoy most of the recreational as well as employment opportunities that their counterparts (urban dwellers) enjoy. One of the factors that have led to this disparity is the lack of such facilities ...

Product

Pepsi Light is a PepsiCo ltd product that is among many of the company’s product. The product is an alcohol free beverage that is sold in stores, restaurants and other places. Pepsi Cola is a global product that received high sales and great market share due to the brand name which has existed for years. Pepsi light is associated with sports and mostly targeted to the youths between in different parts of the world. Pepsi light operates under the brand name of Pepsi. Pepsi Company uses the brand strategy for their branding strategy and their products also. However, Pepsi Light ...

Balanced scorecard is a performance measurement tool, which allows companies to monitor the achievement of the company strategy and organizational goals. Unlike most of performance measurement systems that narrowly focus on financial performance indicators, balanced scorecard gives a holistic picture of the company performance by evaluating it from 4 perspectives: customer perspective, business process perspective, learning and growth perspective, and financial perspective (Niven, 2008).

Customer perspective is central for most organizations, as customer satisfaction is the greatest determinant of company success. This part of the balanced scorecard measures how well the company manages to add value for their customers. ...

The Role of Marketing

Marketing is a managerial process where a customer’s requirements are identified, anticipated, and met in a manner which is profitable (Ferrell and Pride, 2010). Marketing functions to recognize the needs of the customers and setting in place systems in which their needs are met. Marketing is a function which must occur in synergy with other business functions to be successful (Ferrell and Pride, 2010). It is very important for businesses today to dedicate resources to marketing because the success of the business is pegged on the realization of its organizational objectives. Understanding consumer behavior can allow the company to be able to ...

Advantages. An icon, rather than just shoes. Nike shoes are fashionable and technologically advanced, designed specifically for the particular sport activity: running, football etc. Give consumers the feeling of freedom and winning.
Benefits. Nike shoes facilitate sports activities and give the sense of winning. Nike fashion shoes are always trendy and come in different styles, while sports ones are always based on the latest technology developments. They are comfortable to wear and can be used for several occasions.

Nike is more than just shoes, but a lifestyle. They are “designed for sport, crafted for life”. The brand targets all ...