Brands, Inc. and America’s leading Mexican inspired quick service restaurant chain. Taco Bell® serves more than 2 billion consumers each year in more than 5,800 restaurants in the U.S. Originated by Glen Bell, Taco Bell® became a reality on March 21, 1962. The first Taco Bell® restaurant was built in Downey, California. Taco Bell® was acquired by PepsiCo in 1978.
He opened his second store in Macomb, Illinois. He later opened several more stores and developed a prototype before franchising began in 1993. In January 2007, Liautaud sold a thirty-three percent stock to Weston Presidio, a San Francisco-based private equity firm. He retained sixty-seven percent ownership of the company. In 2010, When the Industrial Workers of the World attempted to unionize ten Minneapolis Jimmy John’s locations, the New York Times called effort “one of the few efforts to organize fast-food workers in American Industry”.
Burger King and Taco Bell started in the 1950s, and Wendy's opened in 1969. Some chains, like Carl's Jr., KFC and Jack in the Box, existed before the Speedee Service System, but modified their cooking techniques after. McDonald's, which started it all, is now the world's largest fast-food chain. According to the National Restaurant Association, in 2005, sales of
Over the course of years new items would be added to the menu; however the original Chick-fil-A sandwich would always be the leading sandwich. Since 1967 Chick-fil-A has become the second largest quick service restaurant in the United States. Currently, there are over one thousand seven hundred locations in thirty nine states. In 2012 sales reached four point six billion dollars, this was a fourteen percent increase since 2011. Chick-fil-A’s SWOT analysis Strengths *Established in the United States *1700 locations in 39 states *Successful advertising slogan: “Eat morchicken” *Well known for its chicken sandwich and other chicken products.
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"Hundreds of millions of people buy fast food every day without giving it much thought, unaware of the subtle and not so subtle ramifications of their purchase" (Pg. 10). The widespread phenomenon of fast food consumption has transformed even the simplest aspects of everyday life. An era when eating out was rare and saved for special occasions is coming to an end, and is quickly being replaced with a sky-rocketing demand for fast food. Over time, the fast food industry has increasingly manipulated consumers and corrupted the stability of the nation, and although the convenience and affordability of fast food has made it widely popular, the disadvantages noticeably exceed the benefits.
IPO Project –Chipotle Mexican Grill, About company Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. and its subsidiaries has operated 1,084 restaurants in the United States, two in Toronto, Canada and one in London, England till December 31, 2010.Over the past five years, company has experienced grown up greatly and substantially, and expect to their big rally of 2011, new openings between 135 and 145 restaurants are expected to operate in 2011. Chipotle is working to change the way people think about and eat fast food by looking to fine-dining restaurants for inspiration. Chipotle use high quality ingredients, classic cooking methods to make good tasting food, have top performing people to take care of each customer, and make restaurants operationally
($20,000 + $9000)/$2.95 = 9830.50847 | |Selling Price |Variable Cost |Contribution | |Health Burger |$1.95 |$0.75 |$1.20 | |Mixed Salad |$1.95 |$0.90 |$1.05 | |12 ounce drink |$0.95 |$0.25 |$0.70 | |Combined |$4.85 |$1.90 |$2.95 | D. For the month of May where Eileen sold 8000 health burgers, 8500 salads, and 15,000 fizzy drinks she made $9025 pre-tax dollars. This number is computed by multiplying the contributions per item times the number of items sold. Then you need to total all the contributions together. Then minus the fixed cost of $20,000 from the total contributions for the pre-tax profit. If Eileen is concerned about sales she should be focusing on the product that makes the most margin, or contribution.