Over the course of years new items would be added to the menu; however the original Chick-fil-A sandwich would always be the leading sandwich. Since 1967 Chick-fil-A has become the second largest quick service restaurant in the United States. Currently, there are over one thousand seven hundred locations in thirty nine states. In 2012 sales reached four point six billion dollars, this was a fourteen percent increase since 2011. Chick-fil-A’s SWOT analysis Strengths *Established in the United States *1700 locations in 39 states *Successful advertising slogan: “Eat morchicken” *Well known for its chicken sandwich and other chicken products.
Consumers are buying more snack chips per person, an increase of 2 pounds over four years. * Frito-Lay is the worldwide leader manufacturing and marketing of snack chips. Frito-Lay is a national brand firm that distributes products nationwide. Frito-Lay accounts for 13 percent of snack-food sales in the United States, with about one half of retail sales in the snack chip category. Also, Frito-Lays has eight of the top ten selling snack chips.
Brands, Inc. and America’s leading Mexican inspired quick service restaurant chain. Taco Bell® serves more than 2 billion consumers each year in more than 5,800 restaurants in the U.S. Originated by Glen Bell, Taco Bell® became a reality on March 21, 1962. The first Taco Bell® restaurant was built in Downey, California. Taco Bell® was acquired by PepsiCo in 1978.
------------------------------------------------- Menu Starter Jumbo Combo A delectable array of our most popular starters that's big enough to share. Includes Santa Fe Spring Rolls, Hickory-Smoked Chicken Wings, Onion Rings, Potato Skins and Tupelo Chicken Tenders. Served with four different sauces for mixing and matching. Santa Fe Spring Rolls Stuffed with spinach, black beans, cilantro, corn, jalapenos, diced red peppers and Jack cheese. Served with freshly made Hard Rock Salsa, Guacamole and Chipotle Rance dressing.
The three main points I will compare the restaurants’ by is the fan base, the choices, the taste, and the prices. First off, McDonalds has more history and a much longer track-record than Chick-Fil-A does. McDonalds was founded in 1948, while Chick-Fil-A was founded in the early 1960’s. After being founded McDonalds quickly became famous for their 15 cent hamburgers. In seventeen years, McDonalds had 700 stores nationwide.
Quality Service Recovery at Chick-fil-A Introduction Truett Cathy established the restaurant that would eventually become Chick-fil-A in 1946 (Cathy, 2002). The company launched the boneless breast of chicken sandwich as well as the trend of placing quick-service food establishments in malls (Cathy, 2002). With a mission to "Be America's Best Quick-Service Restaurant", the company has grown into the second largest quick-service chicken restaurant in the United States (Cathy, 2002; Chick-fil-A [CFA], 2011b). As of February 2011, the chain includes over 1,540 restaurants in locations in 39 states and Washington, D.C. (CFA, 2011a). At $3.58 billion, 2010 chain-wide sales were up 11.37 percent over 2009 (CFA, 2011a).
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.
Complete the table below with a description of the products and services for at least two commercial organisations, public organisations and third sector organisations. Please ensure you provide a description for each organisation, rather than a list. Organisation type Name of organisation Description of products and services Commercial organisation The Coca Cola Company Provider of 3500 products (drinks) sold in over 200 countries worldwide. The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company. They have the world's largest beverage distribution system with consumers in more than 200 countries ranking among the world’s top 10 private employers with more than 700,000 employees.
IPO Project –Chipotle Mexican Grill, About company Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. and its subsidiaries has operated 1,084 restaurants in the United States, two in Toronto, Canada and one in London, England till December 31, 2010.Over the past five years, company has experienced grown up greatly and substantially, and expect to their big rally of 2011, new openings between 135 and 145 restaurants are expected to operate in 2011. Chipotle is working to change the way people think about and eat fast food by looking to fine-dining restaurants for inspiration. Chipotle use high quality ingredients, classic cooking methods to make good tasting food, have top performing people to take care of each customer, and make restaurants operationally
* NOW: * Yum Brands, Inc . is the world's largest restaurant company in terms of system units with nearly 32,500 in more than 100 countries and territories. * Yum! Brands, Inc ., is a Fortune 300 company * Yum! Brands, Inc. global system sales totaled more than $22 billion in the year 2001.