INTRODUCTION The restaurant industry can be a challenging endeavor and yet Castle Family Restaurant has been able to establish a name for itself and open eight locations in the California area which employs around 300-340 employees. As the company grows a great challenge can be identifying the need for change within the business processes to ensure the business is being run as efficiently as possible. There are currently a few issues within the HR department of Castle Family Restaurant that would benefit from the implementation of new technology. The HR manager, Jay Morgan, has been traveling to the various locations on a weekly basis in order to accomplish his duties in reference to staffing and employee relations. Jay Morgan also utilizes an excel spreadsheet to perform payroll functions and prints the payroll checks, all of which are very time consuming.
Savor Restaurant and Catering Case Analysis Marcia Casteel Bellevue University MBA 652: Marketing Strategy Professor Kristin Lynch January 18, 2015 Case Recap Savor, located in Rockbrook Village Strip Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, is a hip middle class restaurant. The restaurant has been around for five years and has been compared to a stylish New York or European bistro. Savor is staffed with hip young staff, the main chef is a graduate from a prestigious Culinary Institute of America, and their unique menu focuses on food and wine pairing. Their menu is updated regularly with fresh and local bought ingredients. Even though Savor is a popular and successful restaurant there are problems that need to be dealt with.
In the case of Windham, this continuous subsidizing has forced them to maximize our line of credit from the bank, straining our relationship with them The HHC set out strict guidelines requiring all of its franchises to have a standard restaurant design, menu, suppliers, uniforms and signage. Based on our sales projections, they built the larger format restaurant and took out an $881,000 loan to cover all restaurant costs. In the first year of operations, Windham’s average monthly sales were only 79 per cent of those of the local area of dominant influence. This percentage dropped to 75 per cent in 2001. Unfortunately, Windham has not yet shown an improvement in sales in 2001.
Levendary Cafe Case Study Commerce Essay Levendary Caf é is a well-known, publicly traded, brand in the US and currently expanding into China. T hey began as a small soup, salad, and sandwich restaurant that grew into a $10 billion business. T heir f undamentals are strong and perf ormance is in line with management’s f orecasts yet their stock is trading at a discount. T his is due to their domestic growth slowing and the new CEO’s lack of previous international management experience makes Wall Street skeptical that she can’t make this a multinational brand. T he Multi-Unit Restaurant Business represents 30% of the f oodservice industry which is a $600 billion industry with 960,000 locations.
Employers will also reap the benefits because happy employees will create a better working environment and a successful business. In the United States, we have the conventional American business hours of 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, speaking to a workweek of five eight-hour days creating 40 hours altogether. The real time at work frequently shifts somewhere around 35 and 48 hours by and by because of the incorporation, or absence of consideration, of breaks. In numerous white collar positions, workers were obliged to be in the workplace amid these hours to take orders from the managers, consequently the relationship between this expression and subordination. Work environment hours have gotten to be more adaptable, however even still the expression is usually utilized (Nickell).
Tanglewood continuously needs to hire an exceedingly large number of associates, partially due to the policy of all employees working as store associates and promoting from within, and because of the high turnover rate in retail. I recommend using what appears to be open recruiting methods, but then filtering though the applications to find applicants with the desired KSAO's. This will also aid the organization in maintaining their EOE status, by allowing anyone to apply. The recruitment methods to be used can be advertising in local and regional newspapers, radio, and television, posting opening to the company website, employee referrals, job agency, and in-store kiosks. Tanglewood should do away with paper applications.
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.
Outback Steakhouse HRM 530 February 10, 2012 Discuss how the employee selection methods at Outback Steakhouse help the organization achieve a competitive advantage. Outback Steakhouse was begun in the spring of 1988 and currently has 1,100 restaurants worldwide with more than 65,000 employees (Stewart & Brown, 2009). Achieving a competitive advantage always means doing better than your competitors. Outback Steakhouse does exactly this when recruiting and hiring employees. Jeff Smith, President of Outback Steakhouse says, “At the heart of Outback Steakhouse is a solid foundation built upon the uniqueness of our people.
Philosophy To be recognized as a company that responsibly serves our guests, franchisees, employees, communities, business partners, and the interests of our planet. Financial Health At the end of fiscal year 2012, Dunkin' Brands' nearly 100 percent franchised business model included more than 10,400 Dunkin' Donuts restaurants and nearly 7,000 Baskin-Robbins restaurants. For the full-year 2012, the company had franchisee-reported sales of approximately $8.8 billion. Dunkin' Brands Group, Inc. is headquartered in Canton, Mass. The Company's website is located at
Bobby’s Burgers is a restaurant chain with nearly 10,000 locations worldwide. The company facing incentive problems among its outlet managers. The managers are not working hard enough and are letting quality decline at their locations. CEO, Bobby Jones, is considering a stock plan where each location manager will be given 500 shares of stock in Bobby’s Burgers. Bobby Jones believes that by making the managers part owners of the company, they will be motivated to provided better service.