Kudler Fine Foods Manager – update on job description Job description: To manage and run individual store and ensure profitability for unit. Job duties: Manage store employees, purchasing, inventory control, customer service, submit weekly sales and profitability reports, and run the individual store as a business. Qualifications: Excellent customer service, 5 years experience in a retail environment with proven success, bachelor’s degree in business or associated field. Kudler Fine Foods Catering Manager Job description: To grow catering program and seek out new business opportunities and manage catering assistant. Job duties: Organize a successful catering program and attract new customers and clients.
Many said that the promotional offering of other restaurants such as 4 courses for 2 people for $20 is a great tool that takes them to those restaurants time and time again. Coupons would help to create repeat business if in using the initial coupon the customer determines that even without the coupon the restaurant offers a good value for the money being spent. Developing a frequent diners program with a good reward is a great way to help create repeat business. If a customer were to purchase 5 entrees and would receive the 6th free a customer may be more enticed to return to the restaurant more frequently. Many people said that there are coupons that are not a good value and do not entice people to return.
Recommendations Short Term/Medium Term (August – December 1998) * Effective immediately, advertise and promote the selling price of each handcrafted canoe for $5 000 each. This will result in revenue of $27 561. Refer to Exhibit D. Steve will need to sell four canoes to recover all costs. Refer to Exhibit E. * Steve will need to more accurately calculate direct labor in order to determine the true cost to manufacture each canoe Long Term (At end of 1999) * Profits should be used to invest into the company in the manufacturing of canoes to produce a larger quantity of canoes per year to maximize profits. * As Steve progresses and becomes quicker at manufacturing each canoe, he can improve the quality of his product and increase the selling price resulting in higher net income.
Also Sears and Wal-Mart may not want to for fear of losing the current core customers they already have established. Wal-Mart nor Sears has yet to compete with their other competitors. In fact, it will cost them more money to compete with any of the other big name distributors and they would have to raise their prices. Wal-Mart and Sears are known for their low and reasonable prices. According to Jeffrey Immelt he says that his environmental agenda is "not about being trendy or moral.
The final assumption gauges the rate of predictable improvement over a set period. Making changes to the number of wait staff, kitchen staff, different equipment, and alternative marketing methods proved to improve Mario’s Pizziera. By adding one additional wait staff, and increasing the number of 2 party tables improved the customer wait times that in turn, increased the profits. Moreover, these changes reduced the number of walk away customers. After making changes to the operation, the pizzera changed the ovens to more efficient and state of the art units also improved on the wait time that alos increased profits.
The first principle is they don’t gouge their dealers. Caterpillar protects their dealers and when times are tough, they do don’t turn on their dealers to make Caterpillar look better. Other companies will often bypass their dealers and sell directly to the customer if the deal is important enough. Caterpillar does not bypass their dealers. “We’d sooner cut off our right arm than sell directly to customers and bypass our dealers” (Fites, 1996, P. 86).
In fact it is probably one of the most cost efficient family vacations you could plan. No air fare is needed as it is only an eight hour drive from our homes in Pennsylvania. No need to eat out. We will take turns cooking at the house. Your only food expenses are the groceries you would normally have purchased at home.
With the way Costco has been able to convince customers to buy a membership to shop for bulk items is nothing short of genius. Costco gives customers the opportunity by items they normally use in mass quantities in a bulk package making it cheaper and time saving for a customer. One idea to help Costco increase their profits it to add an organic food section in which customers can purchase items that are grown without chemicals. This would attract a whole new customer base as most of the food sold at Costco is processed and with people taking on a healthier eating lifestyle this would provide Costco a new platform to gain more customers. This would take some hard
In my opinion, panhandling should be legal. If there is someone being an aggressive panhandler, they should be fined or imprisoned for harassment, not panhandling. People that are in need of money for food, rent, personal hygiene products and other things that are important, should be able to freely sit or stand with a sign asking for money. If someone does not want to give to them, they should accept that and not beg them to give them some money. Tourists normally look down on panhandlers because they do not like to be harassed while they are on vacation.
The increase of minimum would help the economy by generating more money in to the society, boosting the economy, and eliminating the demand for jobs. Raising minimum wage will have a great and long lasting ending. The United States would see a flow of money that they haven’t seen in years. This flow of money would show immediately giving the consumers more money to spend since 78 percent of the working force are minimum wage employees. Business owners will appreciate more money being spent in their fast food restaurants, grocery stores and clothing stores etc.