In and Out: Hamburgers are no more “Fast Foods.” Description A hamburger is one of the most popular foods in the world. No matter with gender, age, nationality, or social status, many people like to eat hamburgers not only because of its taste but also because of its availability. Most hamburgers franchises represent “fast food” because customers can get hamburgers as soon as they order them. However, the quality of the “fast food” is considered as unhealthy because most popular hamburger franchises use ingredients with very low quality in order to provide hamburgers to consumers quickly with low prices. However, a hamburger franchise called In and Out breaks out of the stereotypical characteristics of hamburger franchises.
Arby’s SWOT Analysis Apiffany LaTese Jacobs Devry University Arby’s Swot Analysis Arby’s is a place to be able to feed your hunger, with a unique tasting better than traditional fast food places. It’s place to receive something different. Arby’s is known for their slow-roasting waferly thin roast beef sandwiches and famous market fresh sandwiches and wraps, salads. Arby’s roast beef restaurants offered an innovative menu, offering guests something other than hamburgers in the newly inspired quick service segment when food service. When food service veterans Leroy and Forrest Raffel opened the first Arby’s in Boardman, Ohio July 23, 1964, customers enjoyed roast beef sandwiches, potato chips, and Texas-sized iced teas.
Today there are over 1000 Five Guys restaurant throughout the nation; however, Five Guys success and growth is based on the philosophy and mission set forth for the company. This paper will analyze Five Guy’s philosophy, original values, success, and ethical and social practices. The Five Guys mission statement, as simple as its menu, is aligned with the philosophy that if you're going to sell hamburgers and fries in a restaurant industry that has a lot of hamburger-french-fries business, you'd better do hamburgers and fries well than the competitors. Five Guy’s focus is not to add more items to the menu, but to serve top quality burgers and fries to keep their business booming. According to Boonze and Kutrz (2012) Murrell states “We figure our best salesman is our customer”, “treat that person right, he’ll walk out the door and sell for you” (pg.
There is currently one major competitor in the specialty foods business is the chain Whole Foods. The foot print of Whole Foods is so large and has a larger market share than Kudler, they would be able to cut into Kudler’s competitive advantage of being the only specialty food store within their operating locations. There are more super chains such as Wal-Mart are starting to carry organic foods at their notoriously low prices. Wal-Mart is not only starting to offer organic items, but they are saving money by doing it. “By distributing locally, [Wal-Mart] said it saved 112,000 gallons of diesel and total freight expense of more than $1.4 million” (Hoffman, 2008, p. 1).
Burger King VS McDonald’s Burger King and McDonald’s are both fast food restaurants that provide customers with an easy drive thru window. When families have very little time to prepare a cooked meal at home, they most often opt for a fast food drive thru. Hitting up the drive thru at Burger King or McDonald’s, makes life just a little easier for the family on the run. People choose these types of places mostly for their fast pace, not for the quality of the food they receive. Also, because places such as Burger King and McDonald’s cost less than a fancy dining place, they feel they are getting a big bang for their buck.
External Environment, cont. Suggested: High - Many rivals compete in the fast food business. Convincing customers that menu items are different or better than competitors is difficult when the food category is limited to take-out options. Substitutes Threat Med-High Suggested: Med-High – Major substitute is home cooking - it’s easy to make a burger on the home grill. Suppliers’ Power Low Suggested: Low - Suppliers of beef, eggs, potatoes have little power.
The junk food industries keep these foods very visible and easily accessible to everyone. People are addicted to junk food because it is cheaper, taste better and advertised more heavily than healthier food. Another reason junk food is so appealing is at a real restaurant you have to wait for a nutritious meal and it cost more. Hamburgers, hotdogs, pizza and sodas are within everyone’s income range and do not take long to get. Let us not forget about the
Use the Boston consulting group matrix to analyze fast eater product portfolio ii) Both burger roles and fried potatoes are in decline, this means that they either need be remarketed in order to keep their market share higher and prevent the decline, also called an extension strategy or they can be left to become dogs. Because of the rapidly falling profitability of the fried potatoes they would be regarded as being closer to dog than Burger rolls. Toasted bacon sandwich provides a constant flow of capital to Fast eaters, and shows no signs of declining, It is a cash cow and the capital it generates can be used to try and save dogs, or more likely used to inject capital into stars or problem children. Cheese and tomato pizza and chicken roles seem to have been ill-advised ventures, with little demand for either of them and almost no sign of growth they would be regarded as dogs. 2) Fast Eater should market a new healthy sandwich, with low calories and carbohydrate count.
We cannot turn on the television without commercial after commercial advertising one type of food or another; most of which is greasy fast food that is full of fat. The primary goal of the food industry is to make money with very little concern for what it is doing to the health of Americans. Recently fast food restaurants have tried to add some things that are healthier to their menus, but if you notice they usually add something very fattening and enticing at or around the same time. Most people when faced with the choice of a bland salad or hot sandwich are going to choose the sandwich. Not only does it taste better it is also more convenient.
Strategically, Sara Lee is returning to its roots of food service where name recognition is the strongest. 2. Of the remaining industries represented in Sara Lee’s business portfolio, I view the retail, foodservice, and beverage industries as being the most attractive. Sara Lee does have well-developed name recognition within the North American retail industry. While the economy is still low, sales of these retail products will likely remain high as consumers purchase lunch meats and other foods rather than eating out and frozen desserts rather than purchasing from a more expensive local bakery.