Porthos owners must decide whether they can handle the additional demand from the new restaurant chain. Although actual additional demand is not yet known, Porthos management has estimated that the new restaurant will require 250 lbs of bread per day. They also recognize that current demand can fluctuate from day to day and the estimate of additional demand is just that, an estimate. Assume employees work 8 hours per day. Bread must be packaged and shipped on the day it is produced.
Denny’s Discrimination Abstract Denny’s is a full service family restaurant chain which is operated over 1,500 restaurants in world. In this paper I will discuss a major class-action lawsuit that occurred. This paper will entail a time line of the events that led to these lawsuits as well as if these events on the time line indicate escalating conflict as illustrated by Parker’s triangle. It will also entail what actions could have been implemented to prevent these conflicts from escalating into costly lawsuits. Denny’s is a full service family restaurant chain which is operated over 1,500 restaurants in world.
| France's national Bread Observatory, which studies and promotes bread, says the French each consume about 150 grams of it a day, or roughly 55 kilograms a year. Many of them eat it with most meals, viewing bread almost as an extension of the knife and fork in pushing food around on the plate.
Sift has been able to identify and appeal to their specified target market of people between the ages of 25-44 years old and/or with an income of $80,000+. Sift currently has three stores, where only two are full size bakeries. The company has been able to adapt to its market environment by adding decorating classes and parties in its Santa Rosa bakery,
One of these innovative new products is the Single Serve Coffee Pod (SSP), a machine that can brew one cup of coffee at a time. The pod was first conceived in 1978 in Italy, and was originally targeted at office users. Kraft redesigned the pod and retargeted it to home users in Switzerland in 1982. By 2003, the pod had been introduced to 10 European countries, and coffee pods were about 15% of all coffee makers sold. By 2008, European SSP sales were expected to exceed $150 million, and by 2010, they would draw for 10% of European home coffee maker market.
Define the following terms a. Cooking Thermometer b. Displacement c. Firmly Packed d. Heaping e. Lightly Packed f. Meniscus g. Scale h. Sifting i. Volume j. Serving size | 1. The Deli counter at the local grocery normally prepares 150 Italian Panini’s for the mid-morning rush.
($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.
Quantitative Analysis My choices for the Quantitative analysis is Taco Bell and Wal-Mart Taco Bell used forcasting and Qualitative analysis models to help save over $150 million in the mid 90’s, it started a trend that has caused many if not all fast food establishments to adopt this principle to focus on what time sales are at a peak and when more employess are needed and what training is necessary for the staff due to over/under rings and other factors. The choses process is a data warehouse and reporting structure to address the requirements for a fast food franchise operation. The company Exclusive ore designed and implemented the process initially for 80 Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken locations. The process was so effective it was implemented in all locations country wide and eventually internationally as well. The program had 2 main sources of data to gather, 1) Daily sales information automatically polled by the TACO system DePol utility.
How will you know when to exit the trade? “A number of indices have been redefined on a one time basis. To the extent that index trading induces inefficient prices, these events represent profit opportunities to arbitrageurs and losses to buy‐and‐hold index fund investors. Greenwood (2005) studies the redefinition of the Nikkei 225. He finds that the event caused very large transitory price effects that lasted at least 10 weeks and “transferred more than ¥300 billion to arbitrageurs.” This represents a cost of more than 10 percent of assets under his “assumption that index‐linked assets total ¥2,430 billion.” This change was so costly and disruptive that “following the redefinition, the popularity of the Nikkei 225 as a benchmark declined...” Hau, Massa, and Peress (2010) study a redefinition of the MSCI Global Equity Index based on the freely floating proportion of a stock’s capitalization instead of the market capitalization itself.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Barilla SpA was the world’s largest pasta producer during the 1990’s and held a significant market share in Italy and Europe. They produced dry pasta, fresh pasta and bakery items at several factories throughout Italy. Their route to market was through central distribution centers which they owned who in turn sold Barilla products to other distribution centers who sold to the retail stores. Barilla was experiencing huge fluctuations in demand for its products, which was causing serious stock outs at the distribution centers and ultimately on the retail store shelves. Considering current manufacturing process time line, the non-existent forecasting of customer demand from the distribution centers, the ever increasing Bullwhip Effect, MY DECISION is to implement a Just in Time Distribution System (JITD), with a progressive implementation approach.