1. What is Benihana’s value proposition to its customers? Benihana strives to be unique and promises to be a fun place to eat for all. Benihana’s primary value proposition to its customers is providing high quality of quick service and authentic exotic food at reasonable price. Unlike a traditional restaurant where you place the order and food is served to you‚ at Benihana you get to watch the food being cooked and also get entertained in the process. Each chef has a different style and personality
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Operational Management Simulation on Benihana Case 1. What were the take aways and what did you learn? 2. What would you do differently next time? There are many performance indicators for the success of a business. This include brand identity‚ reputation‚ innovation‚ leadership‚ productivity‚ process management‚ customer satisfaction‚ and quality to name a few. Management at Benihana can achieve maximum profitability by maximizing utilization‚ throughput time‚ making use of batching‚ designing
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Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode Course Outline Course Title : Service Operations Management (SOM) Course Code : SM05-06 Credits : 2 Term : Quarter-II (25 March- 30 June 2013) Year : 2013-14 Faculty : Prof. S. Venkataramanaiah __________________________________________________________________________ Introduction & Objective(s): Manufacturing‚ service and agriculture are the major economic activities in any country. In India‚ manufacturing and services together constitute nearly 75% of
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restaurant which is an existing restaurant in Kato Paphos. Benihana is located near the sea‚ in the heart of one of the most popular tourist places for summer holidays in Paphos‚ Cyprus. It was set up in 2006 and had followed a successful track for almost seven years. However after the founder left the country‚ the restaurant remained closed until recently pending the completion of the obtainment of the estate from the ex owner. Benihana is an existing medium-sized restaurant with a fully equipped
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What is Operations Management? Operation Management is concerned with any productive activity‚ whether manufacturing or service‚ in public sector or private sector‚ profit making or not profit making. It is concerned with ensuring that operations are carried out both efficiently and effectively. All mangers are operations managers since all functions within an organization are‚ presumably‚ productive activates it goes without saying that all function should be carried out efficiently and effectively
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| BX2062 Operations Management | Literature Review | “Too much theory‚ not enough understanding”Veronika12665417 | | | Bachelor Of BusinessSP53 2012 James Cook University Singapore | Article Overview The article was written by Roger W. Schemmer in early 2009. Basically‚ the article is addressing about the usage of theory in operations management. As mentioned in the article‚ theories used in the journal article‚ as science defines it‚ is not at the center of much of the research
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Operations Management Research in Cosmos Holidays Organization Executive Summary Operations management is certainly not an easy task at the same time not an impossible one. Some of the organizations manage their operations exceptionally while some mismanage. In most of the organizations some of its operations are good while some of them are bad. This paper reveals the operations management in Cosmos Holidays Organization. The operational areas in which the organization is good and the ones that
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OPERATION MANAGEMENT Question 1 Briefly explain the activities in Operation Management. Operations management refers to the activities‚ decisions and responsibilities of managing the resources which are dedicated to the production and delivery of products and services.The part of an organisation that is responsible for this activity is called the operations function and every organisation has one as delivery of a product and/or service is the reason for existence. Operations managers are the people
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CHALLENGE 1 How many additional customers can Benihana service with batching? First of all‚ it was obvious from the first glance that batching strategy was the right one‚ as it was profitable. On the contrary‚ the non-batching strategy it was not profitable and there was a loss of $ 201.58. This is due to the fact that batching allows the restaurant to use fewer chefs which lowers the fixed costs maximizing the profit. We can also notice that in the cases of batching versus the cases of non
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Role of operation managements within an organisation The Operation management is the activity of managing the resources which produce and deliver products and services. It is one of the core functions of any business. Operations function is the part of the organisation that is responsible for this activity. Every organisation produces some type of product or services so it has an operations function. However not all organisations call the operations function by its name. The people who have the
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