Jennifer Combs Dr. David Mercer Nutrition TR 10:30 October 2, 2012 Super Size Me Critique In the documentary Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock, conducted an experiment. In this experiment he forces himself to eat McDonald's for every meal for thirty days. With him doing this, he hopes to show people why America is the fattest country in the world. While doing so he subjects himself to an unhealthy life style, which he isn't used to. With his live in girlfriend being a vegan chef, he is used to eating a very balanced diet.
Subway vs. Jimmy John’s History Mason Cothran borrowed one thousand dollars from family friend, Peyton Vandiver, to start his first sandwich shop on August 28, 1965. Subway restaurants have been consistently ranked in Entrepreneur magazine’s top five hundred franchises, and Subway was selected as the number two overall franchises in 2008. Additionally, it was ranked as the number three “Fastest Growing Franchise” and number one “Global Franchise” as well. In March 2011, Subway was ranked the most popular Fast-Food restaurant in the United States in a poll of over 43 thousand social media users. At the end of 2010, Subway restaurants surpassed McDonald’s restaurant with 33,749 restaurants across the globe.
The overwhelming success of franchising a local restaurant made national news with articles in trade publications such as Nation’s Restaurant News, Restaurant Business Magazine, and the Franchise Times. Over 20 years after Five Guys first opened there are over 1,000 locations nationwide and over 1500 units in development. Five Guys continues to receive media attention and has grown a cult-like following around the word. What continuously set Five Guys apart from their competition is the fact there are over 250,000 possible ways to order a burger; they use only fresh ground beef; there are no freezers in Five guys locations, just coolers. Northing is ever frozen; it’s always fresh, and they only use peanut oil for their fries (www.fiveguys.com).
It is the philosophy that guides every decision they make at Chipotle. As it turns out, it was an idea people could get behind and by 2005 the company had grown to more than 500 units. By June 2012 CMG owned and operated 1,316 restaurants in four countries. However, in 2012 following the release of the company’s third quarter 2012 results the company faced a number of challenges. Though the reported results were positive, analyst focused on the slowing down of same-stores sales, the competition from Yum Brands Taco Bell and their recent launch of the Cantina Bell menu aimed directly at CMG, and CMG’s announcement that food costs were expected to increase in the near future.
The restaurant was opened as a means to raise funds to open a gourmet restaurant. Based on the success of the first restaurant, Ells opened 8 more Denver area Chipotle Restaurants by 1996. Mc Donald’s Inc. became a major investor in 1998. In 1999, Chipotle opened its first two restaurants outside of Colorado in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Columbus, Ohio. Mc Donald’s became the largest investor in Chipotle and when the company decided to concentrate on its core business, Mc Donald’s divested all
Chipotle Mexican Grill is a fast-growing chain of 1,500 restaurants, started in 1993 in Denver by Steve Ells. In its first decade, Chipotle created an entirely new concept – not fast food, and not casual dining but a mash-up known as “fast casual”. For the past decade, while the company has continued a rapid growth trajectory it has also tried to create a sustainable supply chain. There are 3 key factors for Chipotle to be known and successful. The first key factor is Culture.
McDonald’s has provided tasty and affordable food for their customers for more than 50 years. McDonald’s sold its 100 millionth hamburger in 1958. In 1965, McDonald’s celebrated its 10th anniversary with the first public stock offering at $22.50 per share. It went international in 1967, and their first international restaurant opened in Canada. Today McDonald’s restaurants are in 117 countries around the world.
He decided to install its stand in an area with a majority of Mexican population so he could test new recipes and have a feedback from the people who knew the best of this kind of food. The price of the first tacos sold by Glen Bell was only 19 cents. (Taco Bell) Between 1954 and 1955, Glen Bell built three Taco stands in California: in San Bernardino, Redlands, and Riverside. In 1958, at the age of 28 years old, Glenn bell was the owner of three restaurants that were making $50,000 per year each. (Taco Bell) In 1962, Glen Bell sold his part of El Tacos and opened his first Taco Bell restaurants in the Los Angeles area and started to sell franchises.
Super-Size Me Review Super-Size Me is a documentary by Morgan Spurlock about McDonald’s and its adverse health effects. The film involves documenting Spurlock over a 30 day period in which he eats only McDonald’s, in an effort to prove that the fast food chain is one of the leading causes of consumer weight gain. He ate at McDonald’s three times per day and had to consume everything on the menu at least once. Another stipulation he made was that he had to “Super-Size”, make the portion larger, if asked by the cashier. Spurlock claimed to have consumed over 5,000 calories per day at during this experiment.
They also advertise new products weekly to keep the market intrigued on what they’re selling next. Size and scale of the business McDonald's is the leading global foodservice retailer with more than 34,000 local restaurants serving nearly 69 million people in 118 countries each day. Ownership – McDonald’s cooperation is one of the largest chains of fast food restaurants in the world, headquartered in the United States operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, the company began in the 1940’s as a barbeque restaurant until they changed the whole menu to hamburgers and fries in 1948. Businessman Ray Kroc joined the franchise in 1955; he decided he wanted to purchase the chain from the McDonald brothers as he oversaw its worldwide growth, serving around 68 million customers daily in 119 countries. A franchise is a legal authorization granted by the company to sell or distribute its goods or services in a certain area, there are different methods of operations depending on the product, but basically you can use the companies name and their logo, McDonalds is a public traded company, which means anyone can buy shares in McDonalds with limited