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1,620 wordsOne of the oldest and most prominent problems in the restaurant industry is employee turnover. "With annual turnover rates reaching 300 %, apparently the foodservice industry's problem is not finding employees, it's keeping them" (Weinstein, 1992, [online]). The manager is the essential element to running a successful independent restaurant. In my eyes, a successful restaurant goes beyond the financial spectrum. I believe successful, in this sense, is defined as employing and retaining happy emp...
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1,632 wordsThe word restaurant according to the majority of contemporary dictionaries is defined as an eating-place, an establishment where meals are prepared and served to customers. By this definition, restaurants, by whatever name they have been given, are almost as old as civilization (Davidson, 1999). Modern historians, however, take a different view, that restaurants are a recent innovation and can be defined as a particular establishment where one goes to select prepared items of food, arranged on a...
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1,128 wordsA brief history of the organization: Two brothers originally started McDonalds, they ran a single restaurant for 17 years in a single city in California. In 1954, Ray Kroc visited them to sell them a milkshake machine and saw a bigger vision. In 1955, Mr. Kroc began the new McDonalds System Inc. and in the first year opened 18 new restaurants across the United States, and he maintained the quality, the production line and the limited menu that the McDonald brothers had started. McDonalds tried t...
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2,588 wordsCase Study (1) In chapter Balzar Wars of his book Paris to Moon, Adam Gopnik discuses the commercialization of restaurant business as such that has a negative affect the public image of Paris and France, as a whole. In 1998, the Balzar restaurant, which used to be owned by representatives of the same family since 1894, was being purchased by French restaurant tycoon Jean-Claude Bucher, for the purpose of giving it a chain-operated status. Gopnik complains that the change of restaurants ownership...
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Fast Food Restaurant Social Events
746 wordsThis essay will discuss the proposal of opening a fast-food restaurant nearby the university campus. Background: the absence of fast-food restaurant nearby the university, which is aimed at students as the main customer target, can be viewed as a possibility of opening one. The prospects of future development and generating a decent amount of revenue for further expansion of services are quite promising in our case. Statement of the problem: students are very busy people who not only devote thei...
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1,852 wordsFast Food Nation "Eric Schlosser's book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their children to fast-food restaurants. I shall certainly never do that again. He employs a long, cold burn, a quiet and impassioned accumulation of detail, with calm, wit and clarity. (... ) Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism, readable, reliable and extremely carefully done. " - Adam Nicolson, Daily Tel...
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1,927 words... their true market value. Modified Book Value this is the book value that is arranged to reflect the current market value of the restaurant assets. Replacement Value it lists the replacement cost of the assets less liabilities. Since as a rule some assets in the business are new, this method can overstate the value. Liquidation Value it is net cash that would be received if all assets were sold and liabilities paid off. This would be the net cash result if the firm was going out of business a...
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1,878 wordsJob Description-Food and Beverage Server Food and beverage server (waiter) is a rather complicated occupation, not only the array of responsibilities is quite large, but also ones success depends a lot on the personal qualities, since the clientele always has a final say. Within the course of the paper, we will try to come up with the full job description for a food and beverage server, and in order to do so, we will first talk briefly about some aspects of the job at issue, to be followed by mo...
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2,041 wordsJonathan Vazquez Intro to Business Business Paper May 11, 1999 Burger King is a leader in todays fast-food industry, with locations in all 50 states and 56 international countries and territories around the world. James Mclamore and David Edgerton founded Burger King Corporation in 1954 in Miami, Florida. Mclamore and Edgerton, both of whom had extensive experience in the restaurant business before starting their joint venture, believed in the simple concept of providing the customer with reason...
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2,607 wordsEVERYONES A CRITIC With the proliferation of dining guides, theres no shortage of restaurant reviews out there. But how reliable is the information customers are getting? First, a moment of realization and then panic spreads through the restaurant, one of Manhattans toniest, from the front of the house to the back and downstairs to the basement where the chef is yelling the ear off of some poor, unwitting reservations. How did this happen? ! ? he screams. The Zagat's are here and theyre not on t...
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2,206 wordsMotivation Theory at Work in the Food Service Industry America? s love affair with restaurants has never been greater. According to Roy Alonso of the National Restaurant Association, there were over 750, 000 locations offering food services of some sort in the United States as of 1997. It is estimated that half of all adults are foodservice patrons on a typical day, and over 43 cents of the consumers food dollar is spent at these establishments. In 1997, sales of restaurants of all types topped ...
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3,040 wordsOVERVIEW Skittles is a variety entertainment and dining establishment located in Washington, D. C... Our mission is to provide our patrons with a unique blend of live entertainment while delivering a top quality dining experience. We will do this by emphasizing service excellence and the highest level of performance in all aspects of our operations and services. Our prominent services include live entertainment, ranging in form from comedy to jazz performances to poetry recitals and others. We a...
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Wouldn T Successful Business
801 wordsMath is an essential asset in the business world. Without mathematics businesses wouldn? t be able to operate effectively. In order to run a restaurant math plays an important role in a lot of different areas. For instance the items on the menu may change due to the way it sells. Bookkeeping and math allow you to both figures out what items are profitable and what items are selling. The business world revolves around math, from profit and loss statements, to graphs, to taxes. Everything in busin...
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2,145 wordsMcdonaldization as used by George Ritzer, author of The Mcdonaldization of Society refers to the creation of rationalized systems to perform everyday functions such as food preparation, retail sales, banking, home construction, entertainment, news delivery and so on. He calls it Mcdonaldization because such methods were used to famous effect by Ray Kroc, who built McDonalds into a fast-food empire and because in many peoples minds McDonalds represents the results, both good and bad, that occur w...
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1,685 wordsThe way that Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers does business and markets its product to consumers is due to the change in our society to where the consumer wants the biggest, fastest, and best product they can get for their money. This change in society can be attributed to a process known as Mcdonaldization. Although Mcdonaldization can be applied to many other parts of our society, this paper will focus on its impact on Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers. My belief is that the process of Mcdonald...
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3,360 wordsThe Mcdonaldization of: If you have ever had a meal in a restaurant (fast-food / formal dining), used an ATM in a bank, spent your vacation at an amusement park or simply browsed through a mall, you have been exposed to Mcdonaldization. Mcdonaldization is the process by which the principles of the fast food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of America society as well as the rest of the world (Ritzer, 1996, 1). Nearly ever aspect of today s society has been affected by Mcdon...
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Sigmund Freud Inversely Proportional
9,043 wordsFriday, July 23 rd Paris, France I spent my second night in a youth hostel in Paris last night. I arrived in Paris around 6: 00 am local time two days ago. The flight from LAX to Orly airport was ten about hours long. It wasnt so bad, though. There was nobody sitting next to me and a nice, elderly French lady two seats away. The charter flight that I flew on was run by a French airline, and it seemed that the majority of the passengers were French-speaking. When we were taking off from LA, all o...
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