Starbucks: Delivering Customer Service Starbucks is dominant coffee brand in North America‚ which also is well-known worldwide. Established in 1971 as coffee shop oriented to a niche of coffee purists‚ in late 1980’s it turned to be a constantly growing chain of stores that sold whole-beans and premium-priced coffee to mostly affluent‚ well-educated customers. In years 1992-2002 company was showing at least 5% annual growth. And by 2002 Starbucks was serving already 20M customers in 5886 stores
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Customer Satisfaction Research Report Executive Summary Rockin’ Rubies is a well known national chain restaurant with a loyal customer base‚ which is known for its business style atmosphere and family dining flair. In the past year‚ the corporation has seen a marked decline in sales. The decline in sales is exponentially increasing as every fiscal quarter passes by. The reason for the decline in sales is unknown to the corporation at this time. The restaurant has not changed locations
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Starbucks: Delivering Customer Service Case synopsis: Baldwin‚ Bowker and Siegl were masterful in opening the coffeehouse in Pike Place Market. Schultz was doubly masterful in taking Starbucks to an unprecedented level. As of 2002‚ this familiar household name had a total of 4500 stores which is impressive considering in the ‘80s it had about 100 stores in Chicago and the Northwest. Schultz had his eye on Wall Street although they were incredulous about selling gourmet coffee in a paper cup
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Executive summary Starbucks‚ the world leader coffee store came to realize that they were not properly using the data‚ which they had been collecting over the past years. After carefully reviewing it they came to the conclusion that even though they were growing at a very good pace and generating a lot of revenues‚ their customer satisfaction was not what they expected. Starbucks had their customers divided into three types: unsatisfied (42%)‚ satisfied (37%) and very satisfied
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PROBLEM STATEMENT Starbucks has discovered that they are not always meeting their customers’ expectations in the area of customer satisfaction. Starbucks has to come up with an action plan to address this issue‚ considering its significant correlation and impact to sales and profitability. SITUATION ANALYSIS Company Starbucks is acclaimed for its superior value proposition in the early 1990’s by creating an experience around the consumption of coffee‚ a ‘third place’. The brand is positioned
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Based on Harvard Business School Case Author(s): Youngme Moon‚ John A. Quelch Description: Starbucks‚ the dominant specialty-coffee brand in North America‚ must respond to recent market research indicating that the company is not meeting customer expectations in terms of service. To increase customer satisfaction‚ the company is debating a plan that would increase the amount of labor in the stores and theoretically increase speed-of-service. However‚ the impact of the plan (which would cost
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CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IN HOTELS IN CAPE TOWN MBUNGWANA CHRISTINE LUNGISWA 2009 CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IN HOTELS IN CAPE TOWN by MBUNGWANA CHRISTINE LUNGISWA Dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Master of Technology: Quality in the Faculty of Engineering at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology Supervisor: A Bester Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. J A Watkins D. Phil.‚ D. Com.‚ Ph. D. Bellville November 2009 ii DECLARATION I‚ Christine Mbungwana‚ hereby
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The relationship between customer loyalty and customer satisfaction John T. Bowen University of Nevada‚ Las Vegas‚ Nevada‚ USA Shiang-Lih Chen University of Nevada‚ Las Vegas‚ Nevada‚ USA Keywords Customer loyalty‚ Customer satisfaction‚ Database marketing‚ Hotels Abstract Develops and implements a method for hotels to identify attributes that willincrease customerloyalty. Otherhotels can replicate the methodology used in this study. The study makes
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SINGAPORE: 31 July 2013 — Having exceptional service advisors as a first point of contact and solid customer-centric processes for new-vehicle owners during vehicle servicing are becoming increasingly important drivers of customer satisfaction‚ according to the J.D. Power Asia Pacific 2013 Philippines Customer Service Index (CSI) Study released today. Now in its 13th year‚ the study measures overall satisfaction among vehicle owners who visit an authorized service center for maintenance or repair work
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Customer Satisfaction and Quality Care In this competitive health care environment‚ consumers want and expect better health care services and hospital systems are concerned about maintaining their overall image. There is also attention to ways in which patient satisfaction measurement can be integrated into an overall measure of clinical quality. To begin‚ review the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey (H.C.A.H.P.S.) available at (http://tinyurl.com/4272s7l). Next‚ visit
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