By understanding a few things about the Kudler Fine Foods’ it will help determine the best method of expansion. CEO of Kudler Fine Foods, Kathy Kudler welcomes company growth. Kathy Kudler’s original vision was to create a one stop gourmet food store. Kudler Fine Foods’ is a gourmet grocery store both respected and well-known for providing specialty foods for its clients’. Presently, Kudler Fine Foods’ has three 8,000 square feet stores in the California metropolitan area.
While evaluating the strengths of the restaurant, it is clearly their elaborate menu. On their website the company states, “The Cheesecake Factory menu features more than 200 menu selections made fresh from scratch each day — using only the highest quality ingredients — which combines to create our remarkable tastes (The Cheesecake Factory, 2013).” Their main focus is cheesecake, which they adequately supply in 30 different flavors. The variety of large proportioned dishes provided to their customers has proven to be very beneficial for this company. This attracts a large range of customers including tourists and families. It is their menu that differentiates them from their competitors.
Computer Information System Brief Kudler Fine Foods Jennifer Thomas ACC/542 March 9, 2015 Milan Havel Introduction Considering Kundler’s mission and operations of the business a full analysis will be run to determine the most effect technology to implement in Kundler Fine Foods. The auditors are required to assess Kundler Fine Foods essential business and accounting information, analyze the strengths and weaknesses of Kudler Fine Foods current technology, provide opportunities, and evaluate threats. “Kudler Fine Food's mission is to be the premiere gourmet grocery store for those savvy shoppers who are searching for the finest meats, produce, cheeses, and wine (Apollo Group, 2013). Kundler Fine Foods prides themselves on wine while
Beth’s office is through the kitchen in the back of the store. The Paradiso’s mission statement is “To build a lifelong partnership of raving guest, associates and stockholders”. Her job is to order supplies, doing schedules, hiring employees, cooking, serving, counting the register at the end of the day and taking care of the store. Beth says her least favorite thing about her job is the turnover never having enough people to run the store. There are times that she has to be the manager and the cook at the same time.
RUNNING HEADER: OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Operations Management University of Phoenix MBA 502 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Kudler Business Processes 4 Figure1. Management Responsibilities of Operational Processes 4 Supply Chain 7 Quality Control and Performance Standards 9 Conclusion 10 References 11 Introduction Kudler Fine Foods is an upscale specialty food store located in the San Diego, Metropolitan area, founded in 1998 by Kathy Kudler. Its mission is to provide customers with the finest selection of foodstuffs, wines and related needs in an unparalleled environment (University of Phoenix, 2008). In keeping with its mission, Kudler has decided to start contracting with growers of organic produce.
Kudler Fine Foods Frequent Shopper Program and Information Security Carlos Rivera BSA 310 March 19, 2012 Morris Polston Currently Kudler Fine Foods is creating a new frequent shopper program. Kudler fine foods are a local specialty food store located in San Diego with three locations in La Jolla, Del Mar and Encinitas. The company’s founder, Kathy Kudler was a former Vice-president of marketing for a defense contractor and these locations offer customers the finest in fresh produce, meats and sea foods, cheese and specialty products, wine and other domestic and imported products. This frequent shopper program will track customer purchases of individual customers and award loyalty points that the customers will then be able to redeem for gifts, specialty foods and other rewards made available with partnerships Kudlers has with other outside companies. The focus here is the importance of keeping the customers information safe and secure.
Kudler Fine Foods Market Analysis Kudler Fine Foods is a gourmet food grocery mart that prides itself on serving the customer with the finest organic foods available from around the world. Business owner Kathy Kudler realized there was a demand for a gourmet food market in her hometown of La Jolla, California. She believed that there was a market for quality foods, and that people would be willing to shop at a store with a concentration of rare quality foods. The company slogan is shopping the world for the finest food. This slogan emphasizes the company mission to truly serve what they believe is the best items from around the world, no matter the location.
Current Ethical Issue Paper Patricia Henson XMGT/216 Version 2 February 26, 2012 Jeffrey Harris Current Ethical Issue Paper The organization that I am going to be using to create my ethical organization profile is Kudler Fine Foods. It is a retail store that is owned and operated by Kathy Kudler. The company offers a wide selection of gourmet quality foodstuffs. They sell fresh baked goods, fresh produce, fresh meats and seafood, condiments and packaged foods, along with wine, cheeses, and specialty dairy products. The mission at KFF is to provide consumers with the finest selected foodstuffs, wines, and related needs, in an unparalleled shopping experience.
Quick Service Restaurants include Taco Bell, KFC, Long John Silver’s, McDonald’s, Burger King, Domino’s, Subways and Wendy’s. Casual Dining Restaurants include Pizza Hut, A&W Restaurants, Olive Garden and Red Lobster. Yum is consistently one of the best performing companies within its industry. Demographics, consumer tastes, and personal income drive demand. The profitability of individual companies can vary.
31% of organic foods were sold by mainstream supermarkets and grocery stores including Tyson Foods , Kraft, General Mills Kellogg's, Heinz, Campbell South, Coca Cola, Groupe Danone, Dean Foods, Starbucks and others in the coffee industry. According to Thompson (2009), in the year of 2000, The U.S. organic food industry cross a threshold with more organic food being purchased in conventional supermarkets organic foods were purchased in conventional supermarkets. In addition , supermarkets expansions were set in motion for a variety of organic products including, pastas, wine, cheese yogurts, potato chips, beef, chicken, fruits, vegetables, and other popular hot selling products such as lettuce, apples, carrots, broccoli and celery. The sales of dairy products, beverages, meats, breads and grains grew the fastest in organic products categories. According to Thompson (2009), Consumer demand were primarily responsible for the dramatic Marketplace, fueling a growth of 20% annually of organic products.