The restaurant has a good menu. It has a lunch menu and a dinner menu, and is famous for its homemade pie menu with 15 different varieties. The restaurant is in the low to mid-price range, which ideal for the types of customer base they have in place. Yet this restaurant poses some issues, the restaurant has been losing sales/profits over the past few years. Family members have had some health issues, and have not had the time to manage the restaurant effectively.
Finally I spent an average of 107 minutes of cooking each item in the first week. Cook time varied based on the cooking method of the cut of meat and the side dish. At the end of week one, I identified several aspects of my processes were flawed. Each day before I left work I would decide what to make for dinner. I had to go to the market each afternoon because I wasn’t sure if all the ingredients were available.
“It did not take long for the new employees to become influenced by the culture of the established staff.” (Assignment booklet, p.14) • Out of date equipment’s, furniture’s and menus i. “The décor and furniture look tired, cooking equipment needs replacing, the menus require updating” (Assignment booklet, p.13) Part (b) To access the problems with Zinn’s Burgers and Pizza, I decided that using a SWOT analysis would allow me to take into consideration the many different external and internal factors of Zinn’s Burgers and Pizza, and in turn maximize
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. Some people when dining out at a fast food restaurant like to choose McDonald’s because, some of the McDonald’s restaurants have a playground inside that children can play on while their parents eat and have adult conversations, Burger King does not have this option. McDonald’s started its business in 1940, and serves about 68 million people on a daily basis. They also have restaurants in 119 countries, with 34,000 restaurants in the world. They also employ 1.7 million people.
These listed requirements are frequently very time consuming. During the night shifts, I realized the amount of downtime the staff has. 3 of the 4 night at least 2 staff members left the hospital for fast food, which is not comparable to the fact that many day shift nurses are frequently unable to eat lunch they brought from home due to the amount of work they face. Many of the night staff members bring electronics to play on and a lot of students work the night shift for study time. There were multiple occasions when I could hardly stay awake because of boredom during the night.
The restaurant chain: · Has a low marketing budget. GFR’s guests visit the restaurant for fresh, wholesome food and reasonable prices. Any marketing program has the potential to disrupt that brand experience by increasing the cost of that experience. Given the fixed-price/low-margin nature of the business, Ken Keane, president of Garden Fresh Restaurant, notes, “We have to measure the results of every incremental marketing program and make sure we’re not better off doing nothing.” · Relies on guest loyalty. Repeat customers drive sales.
College life is a huge transition to most of the new incoming students. Having to give up all the comforts from home, to live in a small and dark apartment is already hard enough, but one of the biggest changes in this new lifestyle these people are entering in is the food. Most of us students were used to a healthy and satisfactory home-cooked meal at least once a day prepared by our parents. Here on college, unless you were blessed with great culinary skills or have a lot of time and desire to experiment on the kitchen, a nice homemade dinner will not always be possible. And our café is not helping the students with having a wide variety of food and doesn’t always have the best tasty, delicious food for students either.
The fast-food industry has created millions and millions of jobs for these usually unappealing workers. The hours are generally flexible and most of the time the employee can choose how many and which hours a week they would like to work. The fast food industry has made it so that very, very few people have a quality reason to be completely unemployed. When men were expected to be the main breadwinner of a family, fast food restaurants made it easier for women to maintain a steady income to help pay for a family's expenses. In the 1960s, only 30% of women worked compared to 65% of women working now.
The different between whole food market and regular super markets are completely different. My group and I went on a journey to compare the prices of Whole Food and ShopRite market to feed a family of 4 for a Sunday of 3 meals breakfast, lunch, dinner and 2 snacks. The reason of this experiences is to gather information to see which market have better prices and quantity to feed this family. In my group we have 4 African American girls 1 Nigerian and 1 Hispanic so we decide that each culture pick a meal to learn what each other eat and buy from the market. We learned that the Hispanic girl cooks every day and for a family of 8 so when she go to the market she buy a lot of meats and vegetables that last for a week.
Students also will be more engaged to eat their lunch instead of starving during their next class of the day. Since a larger variety is there to choose from; therefore there won’t all be piled up in a long line. The food from outside vendors will also taste better. I remember during my freshman year of high school, my friend and I ate the pizza for lunch, which was from school, and as opposed to pizza from Papa Johns or Pizza Hut; however it did not taste as well as you would hope. People may really like foods from the big outside name brands because that is what they really “taste” when eating the foods from outside vendors.