Case Study Panera Bread Synopsis Panera Bread is a casual made-to-order fast food restaurant that offers specialty breads‚ sandwiches‚ tossed salads and soups. Established in 1981‚ with 1‚562 company owned and franchised locations‚ Panera Bread has moved into the forefront of the restaurant business‚ and has strategically penetrated the market while acquiring a robust amount of loyal customers. Most of the restaurants offer the choice of indoor and outdoor dining. A fireplace inside the restaurant
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Panera Bread Company Strategic Audit Ellen Carstensen Kelsey Kuhnmuench Brooke Unger Jason Gonzales Tony Martin Table of Contents Executive Summary………………………………………………………………………………. SWOT…………………………………………………………………………………………….. Competitors……………………………………………………………………………………….. Key Success Factors……………………………………………………………………………… Porter’s Five Forces Model……………………………………………………………………….. Strategy Typology…………………………………………………………………………………
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high for Panera in the restaurant industry. No switching costs‚ numerous competitors‚ and an increase in the availability of healthy food For a company in the restaurant industry‚ there are no switching costs for consumers. It is not like‚ for instance‚ the cable industry where cancellation fees are prevalent or an electronics industry where prices for a new product are high. If one day‚ the consumer decides that he or she would like to go to Sweet Green for lunch instead of Panera‚ the only
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Restaurants may be classified or distinguished in many different ways. The primary factors are usually the food itself (e.g. vegetarian‚ seafood‚ steak); the cuisine (e.g. Italian‚ Chinese‚ Indian‚ French‚ Thai) and/or the style of offering (e.g. tapas bar‚ a sushi train‚ a tastet restaurant‚ a buffet restaurant or a yum cha restaurant). Beyond this‚ restaurants may differentiate themselves on factors including speed (see fast food)‚ formality‚ location‚ cost‚ service‚ or novelty themes (such as
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Darden’s Global Supply Chain (a)Darden Restaurants‚ Inc. is an American multi-brand restaurant operator headquartered in Orlando. The firm owns several casual dining restaurant chains: Olive Garden‚ Longhorn Steakhouse‚ Bahama Breeze‚ Seasons 52‚ Eddie V’s Prime Seafood‚ The Capital Grille and Yard House. Until July 28‚ 2014‚ Darden also owned Red Lobster. Darden has more than 2‚100 restaurant locations and more than 200‚000 employees‚ making it the world’s largest full-service restaurant company. As of
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Case 8: Panera Bread Company 1. Panera Bread’s strategy is to make great bread broadly available to consumers across the US. The vision was to provide consumers with a high quality‚ authentic‚ fresh-dough artisan bakery and upscale quick-service dining experience. The following key elements comprise the Panera Bread strategy: a. Capitalize on market potential by opening both company-owned and franchised Panera Bread locations as quickly as possible. Management planned to expand the
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Jordan Ciaramitaro and Casey Howe Fast Food Analysis Panera Bread Panera Bread is a fast food restaurant where many people go to eat a quick‚ filling meal. Panera appeals to most people because of the amount of options it offers‚ which makes it difficult to be dissatisfied. After choosing foods to use on our good day and our bad day‚ we immediately noticed several differences. For breakfast on the bad day we chose a pecan roll; while on the good day we chose a whole grain bagel with reduced
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Panera Bread began in 1981 as Au Bon Pain Co.‚ a fast-casual bakery and café chain‚ founded by Louis Kane and Ron Shaich. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s‚ the chain grew along the east cost of the United States and internationally. It dominated in the bakery-café category. In 1993‚ Au Bon Pain Co. purchased Saint Louis Bread Company‚ which was founded by Kenneth Rosenthal. At this time‚ the Saint Louis Bread Company was in the midst of renovating its 20 bakery-cafes in the Saint Louis area. The concept’s
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soft drinks‚ the only supplier is Coca-Cola. McDonald’s has practiced a backward vertical integration‚ by replacing most of its suppliers. Operations – processing the resources into goods and services The McDonald’s Brothers changed the design of restaurant kitchen. Because they are fast food company‚ they must face all kinds of the customers and speed of the cooking food. Instead of having lots of different equipment and stations for preparing a wide of variety food‚ the Speedy kitchen had: - A very
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Synopsis Panera Bread Company began in 1981 as Au Bon Pain Co. founded by Louis Kane and Ron Shaich . Ron Shaich befriended cofounder Louis Kane in 1980‚ shortly after opening the Cookie Jar bakery in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts. Kane‚ a venture capitalist‚ had recently purchased the Au Bon Pain Company in 1978. Shaich was interested in “adding bread and croissants to his menu to stimulate morning sales” . Shaich recalled‚ “50‚000 people a day were going past my store‚ and I had nothing to sell
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