Strategic Business Plan STRATEGIC HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT CHN - International Hospitality & Office Management Leeuwarden The Netherlands Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Bachelor of Science (Hotel Administration) January‚ 2010 Table of Content 1. Executive summary 4 2. Introduction 5 3. Description of the Panera Bread company 6 4. Strategies being pursued by the company 10 5. Future trends
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competitive strategies discussed in Chapter 3 most closely fit the competitive approach that Panera Bread is taking? What specific kind of competitive advantage is Panera Bread trying to achieve? Driving concept: to provide a premium specialty bakery and café experience to urban workers and suburban dwellers. Generic: Broad differentiation strategy. Competitive advantage: striving to build a competitive advantage based on the triple combination of Product‚ Environment‚ and Great Service
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Summary: Panera Bread Company is an expanding chain of bakery-café restaurants throughout the United States that targets urban workers and suburban dwellers. Panera is known for its fresh baked goods‚ made to order sandwiches with the company’s fresh bread‚ salad‚ custom roasted coffees‚ and other café beverages. Opportunity: Panera bread can increase sales by targeting families for meals during breakfast and dinner hours. Strategy: Panera may inform customers of food specials during the times
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Sarah McHugh Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes Points: 11 Period: 2 Flowers for Algernon The story begins with the main protagonist Charlie Gordon. He is thirty two years old‚ and works at Donners Bakery and goes to the Beekmin Center for Retarded Adults three nights a week. He starts off with an I.Q. Of 68. His teacher is Alice Kinnian and a major character in the story and becomes a love interest with Charlie as he progresses and regresses throughout the story. Charlie Gordon starts off
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cooked for immediate service with limited advance preparation or carryover of prepared food from one day to the next. These establishments are also referred to as quick service restaurants. (Community centers with food catered in; concession stands; bakeries with meat products (kolaches)) Restaurant- Full Service Establishments typically characterized by the availability of table service and a wait staff. Buffet restaurants and cafeterias that prepare a variety of potentially hazardous foods and
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product customization‚ so if the company selected process type doesn’t fit with its strategy‚ it wouldn’t select the best process decision. Because each kind of operation has its suitable type‚ for example batch process could be very suitable for the bakery‚ but not
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ruled 8-1 that the churches actions were protected under their Freedom of Speech. These instances cause gay right’s supporters to fight harder for equality. Recently‚ a Christian owned bakery in Gresham‚ Oregon was forced to shut down after many threats and gay protests of their shop. This all started when the bakery refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple‚ causing many LGBT (Lesbian-Gay-Bi-Sexual-Transgender) to attack their business in different ways. The couple who owned it stated that
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States. Their major product was pan sobao which is bread that is known for its unique flavor and texture; and it’s made in Puerto Rico. An opportunity was identified when several Puerto Rican residents would take several pounds of pan sabao from local bakeries to the United States. The program included the export of frozen bread dough along with branded bread-loaf paper cover and merchandising at the point of sale. The initiative was aimed at cities in the United States with large Puerto Rican and Hispanic
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During the 1980s‚ Shaich and his colleagues began developing a strategy for changing the way America eats. How did they decide on the bakery café strategy? Did Panera’s leaders seem to follow the six steps of strategic planning? I feel that Ron Shaich and the leaders did follow the six steps of strategic planning because in 1980 Mr.Shaich started his first bakery called the cookie jar‚ and over three decades he merged with Au Bon‚ acquired St. Louis Bread Co.‚ and eventually morphed into Panera
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What Is an Attendance-Monitoring System? An attendance-monitoring system serves as a time log that is set up as a computerized database. An attendance- monitoring system maintains a daily record of a person’s arrival and departure time from work or school. 1. System Type * The attendance-monitoring system database is an application that contains electronic files about a person’s history. Common Attendance Features * An attendance-monitoring system contains a person’s name‚ address
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