Starbucks: Delivering Customer Service Starbucks began several years ago in a small city in Seattle‚ WA. Since its inception Starbucks quickly acquired several cafes throughout the state of WA and now Starbucks has cafes worldwide. The success of Starbucks lies with the dedication of providing quality products‚ a unique atmosphere and a commitment of providing top notch customer service. This article describes the importance of customer service and the endless possibilities to make sure that Starbucks
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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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above industry standards‚ with a cup of coffee costing twice as much as that offered at any similar venue. Though initial skeptics where dubious regarding the product’s breakthrough success‚ customers found the price a small drawback next to great service and friendly ambiance and gladly cashed out upwards of a dollar for a single cup of coffee. The product line was simultaneously evolved‚ with a new warm beverage hitting stores at least once every holiday season. Over the years‚ the Starbucks experience
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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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will not supply services to society unless there is a profit to be made in doing so‚ therefore it becomes the governments responsibility to step in and ensure that services such as civil defence and the administration of justice are in place to provide stable conditions for the private sector to prosper and thus bring greater quality of living standards to society in general. With that in mind‚ successive Governments across the world have faced the dilemma over which services to provide and in
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Starbucks: Delivering Customer Service Starbucks: Delivering Customer Service The elusive goal of customer satisfaction has long provided companies with endless headaches and difficult decisions. In the end‚ associating specific customer satisfaction metrics to company profit and loss would provide the undeniable proof needed to make changes‚ and then invest the required capital to address any concerns. Starbucks‚ not unlike the rest of the business world‚ has found itself in the same situation
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신제품마케팅 조별 사례 발표 Starbucks : Delivering Customer Service Contents • • • • • • • Case Summary Company Background The Starbucks Value Proposition Delivering on Service Caffeinating the World Starbucks’ Market Research: Trouble Brewing? Rediscovering the Starbucks Customer • Suggestion Case Summary • > 5% ann. sales growth during 11years in a row (~2002) • close to a recession-proof product (Howard Schultz) • Lack of strategic marketing group and customer relationship management : Overlooking
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STARBUCKS: DELIVERING CUSTOMER SERVICE Background Case P.1 According to their data‚ Starbucks are not always meeting our customers’ expectations in the area of customer satisfaction. They came up with a plan to invest an additional $40 million annually in the company’s 4‚500 stores‚ which would allow each store to add the equivalent of 20 hours of labor a week. The idea is to improve speed of service and thereby increase customer satisfaction. P.1 Day‚ Starbucks’ senior vice president of
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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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satisfaction. The purpose of this memo is to analyze and provide recommendation on whether or not the company should go forth with a $40 million investment in additional labor in the stores. This $40 million investment is necessary in order to bring service time down to a three-minute interval and ultimately increase customer satisfaction. A marketing strategy and corresponding recommendation will be provided for your approval. Situation Analysis: Numerous factors accounted for Starbucks’ extraordinary
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