Essays on Kitchen

The California pizza kitchen has developed what can be described as a largely successful strategy in its quest for a competitive advantage in a market characterized by high levels of competition from other established pizza chains such as Pizza Inn, Pizza Hut and Happy’s pizza and local restaurants and pizzerias. This success has been as a result of a careful evaluation of the operating environment over time which has enabled the pizza chain develop strategies to meet its objective of to extending its leadership position in the restaurant and premium pizza market by selling innovative, high quality pizzas ...

Introduction

Regardless of the type of organization, a veritable menagerie of processes must be completed in graceful precision to ensure the firm is able to maximize the efficiency of its value chain, and thusly, ensure maximization of its revenue generation activities. Importantly, there are a number of strategies that a firm can undertake to accomplish this efficiency in operations and revenue generations, yet the most basic and fundamental element of an organization to target for such achievements is through the firm’s process infrastructure. In particular, a firm generally facilitates operation through the development and implementation of specific processes, each ...

Angel Food Kitchen: Volunteer Training

Description
Many members of our community do not have enough to eat so Angel Food Kitchen offers home cooked meals and a food pantry. We welcome volunteers from ages 16 to 60 but we do ask them to attend a training session for working in the kitchen and dining room. Unfortunately not everyone who volunteers will be able to join our staff members working in the kitchen and with clients in the dining room. Angel Food Kitchen is well-organized and certain routines need to be followed carefully so delicious meals will be served on time. We also have special ...

Food is often very closely tied to familial and cultural experiences; time spent cooking food, making food, and sitting around the dinner table reveals much about a family dynamic, as well as the connective tissue that combines all of our experiences. The preparation of food is a nearly-universal cultural experience, and every family, every culture has their own unique ways of behaving and working in the kitchen. However, historically the role of primary food preparer and slave to the kitchen has been women; different women react to this role in different ways, which is a subject often explored in ...

Executive Summary

California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) is a chain of dining restaurants which offers a wide variety of foods. However, much of its focus is on its premium pizza sector. The company has a total of 248 restaurants. Under this chain several restaurants like California Pizza Kitchen, LA Food Show, and California Pizza Kitchen ASAP are found. Its operations are widely distributed in thirty states and also in 8 countries outside the US [California Pizza Kitchen (n.d.)]. This report is an in-depth analysis of the company’s operations, using the framework specified by ...

Introduction.

Fundamentally, every nation boasts of its citizens. The word citizen connotes to the individuals or rather occupants of a specific nation that are often entitled to the benefits and privileges of a particular country. The cited individuals get habitually regarded as legal members of a specific country. In the United States, citizens are regarded and treated with utmost reverence by the state. The mentioned is because; the citizens form the backbone of the country’s growth by significantly contributing the desired skilled personnel. Citizens often engage in myriad activities that explicitly reveal their citizenship. Most importantly, the dedicated government ...

Personal Action Plan Observation

Introduction
Social class can be defined as a hierarchical stratification or distinction that exists between individuals or societal cultures and groups (Webster’s online dictionary, n.d.). My major objective in this paper is to present an observation of a different social class from my own and thereafter formulate an action plan that is based on my observation and also determine how to use the new knowledge I have gained since it is related to diversity consciousness.

I normally consider myself as a middle class individual. This assumption is based on my college education, income and my general state of ...

The outbreak at the Jonathan nursing home was due to the negligence of the new cook. Jonathan had acquired a new cook who was replacing another who had died after suffering from flu during a flu outbreak. Jonathan was forced to employ new staff to replace the ill kitchen staff because they were not any position to continue carrying out the kitchen work. The new cook, however, was not keen on following the kitchen instructions. The instructions required him to grind the meat after it was cooked and keep the meat so that it can be warmed and served ...

Personal Action Plan

In a society or across cultures, social class may refer to the way in which individuals or groups are identified or placed into different strata’s, as noted in Webster’s online dictionary (n.d). In the United States, the strata’s may be identified based on a number of characteristics like, occupation, net worth, wealth, riches, education, power, housing, political class and possessions. However, there are also other basic factors which are used to separate people based on these strata’s and they include, attitude, morals, hygiene and manners. This paper is intended to share what I have observed ...

Introduction

Southern Colorado Needs Help
However, charitable organizations can be found in an around the region, including Publo, Los Animas, Gunnison, Kiowa and other areas. The purpose of this paper is to show how charitable services in this area exist today. Barbara O’Neal, in her novel describes the city of Pueblo as having an abundant number of soup kitchens. In one scene, she imagines a blizzard whirling, but Elsa, her main character is serving food in a soup kitchen at San Roque Catholic Church (O’Neil 45).. The city manage of Pueblo, Colorado, says “selflessness is one of ...

Introduction

The aim of the following assignment is to research into the crisis situation, which called forth the need of creating the report on the functioning of Aqua, a fine-dining boutique restaurant in Malibu, California, and form the body of the report, which is going to be submitted to the agent at Exit Reality. The purpose of the report is to get to know whether performance of the restaurant complies with the LA County restaurant grading ordinance, which provides for the ways food should be handled, stored and prepared. Despite the fact that Thomas is highly interested in Report’s ...

Introduction

At first glance one would think that Philippe Starck’s iconic juicer was a spider-inspired piece of artwork due to the three long legs that supports what seems to be a rocket ship-shaped body. Surprisingly, the designer actually thought of the similar inspiration. The juicer is now considered as an icon of contemporary industrial design; it even earned its place in New York’s Museum of Modern Art. However, the juicer itself according to Starck was intended to be a conversation piece rather than a juicer. In 1989, Alessi originally approached the Italian designer to design a stainless steel ...

Question1: Shark tank analysis

The Shank Tank is a killer of a business show. The Sharks are out in search of the best businesses and products in America. The Sharks consist of a team of self-made millionaire and billionaire tycoons hunting for the best investment opportunities. During episode 10, season six the sharks confront four new ventures examining the businesses for their chances for survival. The ventures that presented during the episode were Kitchen Safe, Off the Cobb, Magic Cook and Earth Logs (Stephanopoulos, 2014).
Kitchen Safe: Time released safe to prevent temptation. The kitchen safe is currently only available online. Cost is ...

Everyday upon awakening in the morning, I stretch my arms, legs, do a backbend, and head downstairs for a cup of tea. This is a ritual which results in me spending twenty to thirty minutes in the kitchen every single morning. I spend thirty seconds staring at the tea kennel waiting for the water to boil and then another twenty minutes waiting for the tea to cool, enjoying its deliciousness, and gazing off into the expansive landscape of my back and side yards. The effects of drinking tea, whether caffeinated or not, and taking this time out of my ...

Introduction – background information

Research is an important component of any market study as the same discloses important information about the market and the business environment to a business organization . In most cases, the main reason to conduct a research in business organizations is to be able to gather a picture of the competitive environment which usually takes into account factors such as presence of competitors, preference of customers in the market, prevailing political, economic, social and technological conditions and a number of other factors . These factors are important from a business point of view as the same help in predicting the challenges ...

Introduction

Gob Squad is a group of German and British artists. Gob Squad was formed in the Nottingham and now mainly operates from Germany. This group performs in the area of theatres, films, real life incidents, videos and other visual mediums of entertainment. Gob Squad performs in urban various centers including theaters, clubs, car parking, hotels, shops and houses. Gob Squad’s realistic and vivid performance is highly acclaimed by acclaimed by audiences, as well as, critics. This paper intends to discuss the Gob Squad’s performance and their show on “Kitchen”.

Background

Gob Squad was founded in the year 1994 ...

Luke was humming some catchy tune as he was leaning against the kitchen counter and making grilled cheese. He opened the fridge to get a milk carton, then took two glasses from the kitchen drawer and put them on the table. He poured some milk in both, leveling his head with the glasses and squinting his eyes as he made sure the milk was poured at exactly the same level in both glasses, trying not to spill a drop on the table which he had cleaned to the perfect whiteness prior.
Glenn walked into the kitchen and stopped at ...

Green Kitchen is a multinational company based Netherlands and is involved in the manufacturing of a wide range of kitchen cleaners based on an original formula. In particular, the company manufactures cleaning solutions that are environment friendly. Green Kitchen Co. is looking at investing in another country, and they picked Germany as their final destination based on the country’s strongly incentivized investment opportunities (Kazmi, 2000).
The Green Kitchen strategic environmental policy enables the company to identify its competitive environment in order to generate reasonable structural transformation within which to meet its goals and objectives. With the company’s ...

Team 2

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Our company is Prestige Worldwide Investing. Our task is to determine which property is the best investment for the three different risk investors which is the risk averse, risk neutral, and risk seeking. Richard Nixon is a risk-seeking investor. Like most VC (venture capitalist), Richard pursues the project, which is high risky and high payback. Bill Clinton is risk-neutral investor, and he is only concerned about high return regardless of the risk. Ronald Reagan is a risk-averse investor looking for safe investments. For example, risk-averse investors will prefer the one with low relative risk when faced with ...

English

Opposing view: A woman’s place is in the kitchen because it is the place where she will eat what her man cooked for her and to ensure that he cooked the dish correctly.
1.) Prejudice against women in the work place is considered as a violation of the fundamental principle of equality of genders. Heffner (2005) stated that a career flexibility should be given to women as they deserved to be respected in their careers by allowing them to work without having to sacrifice right to nurture their homes and families. It is shameful that the modern world ...

What I observed

During the whole observation, I have observed a lot of things. One of the things that marked my existence at the Soup Kitchen was how everyone professionally worked to deliver world class services to those people who need topnotch services. In this type of field, customer service is not really enough to please the customers.
Expertise, experience and skill are two of the most important traits that one must consider before entering this particular field because they are really in demand. I have seen chefs working to the best of their ability to make delicious foods out of their ...

Background and Setting

“Trifles” is a one-act play written by Susan Glaspell in 1916. Glaspell brought base for her play from a real murder story of a former John Hossack, the case that she had covered when she was a journalist with Des Moines Daily News Paper. In that case, the victim’s wife, Mrs. Margaret, was suspected as a murderer. Based on this story, she built a story for her one-act play, “Trifles.” The action of the play revolves around a murder of a farmer Mr. John Wright. Someone put him to death by strangling him by a rope. His wife ...

ABSTRACT

This paper focuses on gender differences separating the boys from the girls. It considers historic gender based roles and looks at how those roles are perpetuated today. It reflects on how the gender roles are reinforced from before birth in how the parents and their friends design the nursery and plan the layette. This paper also reflects on how those roles continue to receive reinforcement during the educational process and how it might affect adult men and women.

Introduction:

Thesis:
The early conditioning boys and girls receive results in vastly different treatment and life choices later on.
Argument:
The play, ...

1. What do you need to do in order to guarantee safety in a fast-food kitchen?
Ensuring safety control measures in the kitchen is essential especially in a fast food kitchen where the operations require constant movement and high work pressure. This calls for the managers to come up with an effective safety control program that aims at regulating the occurrence of incidents and accidents in the kitchen. The first step towards maintaining safety measures involves conducting accident investigation and analysis program so as to identify and correct any causative factors. This involves identifying and repairing any leaks and ...

Introduction

This paper will assess the component information systems needed for an effective restaurant information system. It will identify the objects and the classes that are required in a given system. In general, the information system for a restaurant requires a patrons order be placed, prepared, served, billed and inventory updated. This process involves several stages from when the customer first walks through the door, is seated and a waiter is assigned to when the accountant processes the year end data. While having a meal in a restaurant is a simple, familiar process to us as customers, it actually involves ...

1. Executive Summary
The use of advanced technologies in the restaurant industry is the topic chosen for this paper. The topic is researched in the light of increasing growing competition in the restaurant business sector. The details of the findings are furnished below.
1.1 Parameters of the report
The major purpose of this study is to identify whether or not the long term benefits of using advanced computer technologies in the restaurant industry would outweigh its potential costs. This study will consider the case of Pleasant Hill Kitchen and Bakery, which is an American style restaurant offering spaghetti, steak, ...

Business

Introduction to the video program
"Kitchen Nightmares" is an episode that forecasted the ill happenings and the mix happenings which used to take place in the kitchen of the ABC Restaurant. This Restaurant was started by a couple named as Samy and Amy and was titled as Amy's Baking Company, started in 2006, in Phoenix. Amy had a dream to work as a Cook and wanted to start the Restaurant. So after much preparation they start this bakery company.
The bakery company was visited by many customers. But all of these customers faced some or the other problems. The ...

Answer the questions

Step 1
There is lack of proper communication between the owner of the restaurant and the chef. The owner, who is supposed to entrust the chef with the management of the restaurant is instead engaging the chef in an argument during working hours in the kitchen. The chef exhibits poor anger management skills. We can see the chef kicking and throwing kitchen utensils. This shows complete disregard for the working environment. There is an obvious lack of respect and etiquette amongst members of staff. The chef is so to the extent that loud customers in the dining room can ...

When making procurement decisions, the opportunity cost must be evaluated. Resources are scarce while human needs are unlimited. Economists continue to face the problem of scarcity and choice. One thing is bought at the expense of another. Since resources are limited and needs are unlimited, persons habitually purchase products that will give them the maximum value. Opportunity cost is the loss of probable gain from the 2nd best forfeited alternative when one alternative is picked. For example, one has $9500 which they can use to buy a bungalow or a Prado as those needs are at the topmost of ...

Trade management is done by trade managers. There are different types of trade managers who include; retail trade managers, wholesale trade managers, and international trade managers among other managers. Most business associations create career paths in trade management in order to align the career paths of individuals with that of the business. It is for this reason that a business entity or an organization may come up with various levels of trade managers. Business entities have trade managers, assistant trade managers and senior trade managers among other levels. This is to cater for career progression needs of individuals working ...

Question 1: Operational Layout Change Analysis

There are various Service Process Layout (SPL) types that companies widely use, based on their core product and scale of operations. Such layouts include the following models:
- Product layout – type of production, focused on repetitive manufacturing procedures, often seen in automobile production line, where resources have to be organized in sequence to eliminate time waste and increase visibility of the end-to-end process.
- Fixed-position layout is the process set-up that allows lean operation in production of out-of-gauge products, such as ship manufacturing seen on shipyards or aircraft production.
- Process layout is the production set-up that allows meeting ...

Lessons from Personal Experiment

Executive Summary3
1.0 Introduction..4
2.0 Background..5
3.0 Methods6
4.0 Results, Analysis and Discussion.7
5.0 Conclusions..8
6.0 Recommendations8

References10

Executive Summary
The report reviews a test scenario of two Japanese inventory control system models in preparation for launch of a restaurant business venture. The Toyota Production System (TPS) and Just-In-Time (JIT) approaches to Business Process Implementation (BPI) planning of the small-medium enterprise (SME) in New Zealand is analysed in feasibility testing scenario of the two models: The Kitchen Inventory Study.
- Introduction
The report reviews a test scenario of two Japanese inventory control system models in preparation for launch of a ...

"Trifles" by Susan Glaspell
"Trifles" by Susan Glaspell is a play replete with symbolism. While the men go and search the crime scene for forensic evidence, their two wives solve the crime by examining the small trifling details in the kitchen. Each of these is symbolic of a greater truth in another woman’s life. More by what is left unsaid than spoken it is clear they can do this because they relate to the small details of a marriage turned bleak. They can do this because the symbolism of these trifles is so strong that the third woman ...

Wash a vessel, shake water off it, without rubbing it with a towel and put it on the stove. Light it. Tiny droplets move around in a furious dance, moments before they evaporate. Residual stock on the walls of the vessel is drawn in too, seemingly by these massless, baseless droplets in an effort to make more of their own kind. Drawn into the fight like unwilling gladiators, they collide, forcefully moving away from the vapour and then moving into it, becoming vapour. For me, the kitchen is an embodiment of all kinds of wonders in the world, a ...

According to Laborde, a learned anthropologist, “spoons are as old as the soup, if not as old as the world.” (Global housewares & specialties, 2007). However, the recorded history of spoons dates back in Egypt, over a thousand years, long before the birth of the Christ. These old spoons were mainly used as ointments. The spoon was a strong and important possession of individuals, and could be willed to another individual upon the death of the owner. History of Scandinavian countries and Wales depict that the spoon was used as symbols of love. The spoons would be curved by the ...

Designing a floor plan

Eggspectation floor plan will depend on some factors. Dimension will have to be considered in respect to the size of settings. For instance, the dining area will only cover 60% of the total area. The remainder is 40% of the total area, which is left for kitchen planning and building. Designing the seating plan also will require some considerations. Since it will be an open type restaurant, it's vital to keep in mind of a 200 banquet seating facility and the 75 fine dining room areas. For a banquet, it would normally require 10 square feet per individual while, ...

Business

Fresh Choice Food Service Staff Training
Introduction
Fresh Choice offers the best and healthy alternatives to all-time favorites such as burgers and sandwiches. In order to ensure that customer satisfaction is met, food servers are required to undergo training to optimize overall customer experience and establish a service workflow that will improvement the restaurant’s business and service processes. The training will cover three types of learning namely, knowledge, attitude, and hands-on skills. The knowledge segment will cover service policies, health and safety, and product knowledge. On the other hand, the attitude segment of the training will cover customer ...

In economics, opportunity cost is the cost of the alternative that is foregone in the favor of another. The opportunity cost arises when a choice requires to be made between two available ones. In this sense, it refers to the benefits that one could have accrued had he chosen an alternative action.
Opportunity costs are subjective in nature. This means that only the person in possession of two alternatives can choose the most attractive from a personal perspective or from a given point of view. Human beings have different aims of philosophy and life and because of this, each ...

Module Two

Susan Fournier, in her paper published in 1998 in the background readings, she claims that there are relationships between customers with their brands.
1) Explain what Fournier means by "having a relationship" with a brand.
2) Using two brands chosen from the categories below, explain whether or not you believe that customers have relationships with these brands.
- Honda
- Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen
3) Expand your thinking and explain whether, based on Fournier's paper, your experience and your knowledge of other people, customers have relationships with all brands.
- Susan Fournier explanation to Brand Relationship
According to Dr. ...

Think Australia Hospitality Limited (TAHL) new hotel will be located right in the heart of the Melbourne CBD. The hotel will be less than a minutes’ walk from Southern Cross Station within the Melbourne.
The complex consists of 50 room boutique hotel, al fresco restaurant and events center. The hotel will be able to hold up to a capacity of 90 clients at a time. Twenty five clients will be accommodated in the indoor rooms and the 65 other accommodated in the al fresco style.
The hotel is located within a safe location, which is a thriving downtown shopping ...