industry was the pioneered by Steven Ellis‚ the CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill. Now considered the leader in the fast casual industry‚ Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG)‚ first opened their doors in the spring of 1993 in heart of Denver‚ Colorado. Immediately Chipotle’s was a hit with the younger college crowd‚ and through word of mouth‚ CMG quickly became a staple for many residents near the college where the first restaurant opened. Since then‚ Chipotle has opened up 1230 stores in 46 states‚ including stores
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CASE STUDY - CHIPOTLE Three key problems and/or issues that management had to address in developing a new strategy + what their solutions were to these problems. o Limited sustainable suppliers to cover demand and higher costs Chipotle started to use organically grown local products and ingredients as part of a long-term management campaign to use top-quality‚ nutritious ingredients to improve “the Chipotle experience”. This was also designated as “Food with Integrity”. However‚ the market demand
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Prepared for: Chipotle Submitted By: December 14‚ 2011 I. Introduction to Chipotle Introduction Chipotle Mexican Grill is a leading force in its commitment to buy food from sustainable sources that do not have a negative impact on its menu pricing. Besides leading the way in the fast casual dining experience‚ it also supports farming initiatives that develop and practice best standards. Chipotle is also active in its environmental commitment to working to reduce its carbon footprint
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Introduction/History What comes to mind when you think of the restaurant Chipotle? Would you say Mexican food with a fast casual environment? Well there is so much more to this publicly traded company. Chipotle was founded in 1993 by Steve Ells who is a trained chef. Steve originally opened the first Chipotle restaurant with the intention of building a place where you could eat delicious food of the finest ingredients cheaply. In 2006 they became publicly traded and have steadily grown from
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hand‚ the team could be called heterogeneous in terms of that its team members have diverse work experience (IT‚ academic consulting‚ engineering)‚ thus enabling a wider range of capabilities and external perspectives of getting contacts. Our team has conducted the Belbin test in order to identify team member capabilities and leadership roles. It was founded that each team member obtained his own leadership role as follows: According to Belbin Test‚ by understanding the roles in founding a team
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activity that is central to the company’s ability to achieve a competitive advantage. • Distinctive Competency – An internal‚ value-creating activity that is unique and allows a company to achieve a competitive advantage. • Capability – A company’s ability to put its resources and competencies to productive use. Core competencies are rarely reliant on a single department – they are more likely to owe their existence to a strong collaboration between two or more departments. Strategically relevant
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Title: Chipotle Success Chipotle Success . Just the Facts Chipotle was founded by Steve Ells in Denver Colorado July 13‚ 1993 near the University of Denver. Steve started by offering a small menu consisting only of a large burrito‚ tacos‚ chips and guacamole (Daszkowski‚ Don‚ June 28‚ 2010). He needed to sell 107 burritos a day to be able to make a profit‚ but in months time he was selling more than 1‚000 burritos a day! In February 1998 McDonalds agreed to buy a minority stake in
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Capabilities Capabilities are valuable‚ rare‚ costly to imitate and non substitutable are core competencies. Core competencies are sources of competitive advantage for the firm over its rivals. A sustained competitive advantage is achieved only when the competitors cannot duplicate the benefits of a firm’s strategy or when they lack the resources to attempt imitation. Sustainable competitive advantage results only when all four criteria are satisfied. For a capability to be a core competence
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Marks & Spencer Resources‚ Capabilities & Competitive Advantage Compiled for Paull Robathan. Author: Kerry Sheehan Monday‚ 02 February 2004 1EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the period up until the mid 1990’s M&S had a market leading share of the clothing market. They used their resources and subsequent capabilities to exploit their differences from the competitors and create competitive advantage by: *Empowering suppliers/manufacturers with design responsibility *Closely managing supplier relationships
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Chipotle is a Mexican restaurant that was opened in 1993 with the one goal to serve high quality and tasty food quickly with an experience that exceeded but refined the fast food experience. Chipotle also focus on using the best ingredients‚ and upholding their mission statement “Food with Integrity”. It is important to have all of the above qualities in owning a business‚ but every company has strength and weaknesses‚ which I will be discussing in this paper. I will discuss the strengths of Chipotle
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