A General Strategic Capacity Planning Model under Demand Uncertainty Woonghee Tim Huh‚1 Robin O. Roundy‚2 Metin Çakanyildirim3 1 Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research‚ Columbia University‚ New York‚ New York 10027 2 School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering‚ Cornell University‚ Ithaca‚ New York 14853 3 School of Management‚ University of Texas at Dallas‚ Richardson‚ Texas 75083 Received 29 October 2003; revised 24 August 2005; accepted 30 September
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you’re family‚” by welcoming each guest and treating people with care. As I walk in to the Olive Garden Restaurant I look around notice the warm welcoming atmosphere that surrounds me‚ as the Hostess greets us with her gracious words‚ “Welcome to Olive Garden!” The Olive Garden restaurant is a well-known corporate chain of restaurants that offers a wide variety of Italian dishes. Throughout the restaurant I noticed the light brown stucco walls with fancy designs such as grape vines‚ low hanging lights
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McDonald has been a well-known and valuable brand for over half a century. The company’s mission and vision is striving to be the world’s best quick service restaurant and formalizing their beliefs into “People‚ Vision‚ and People Promise”. “Quality‚ Service‚ Cleanliness and Value” also became the company’s motto. The company’s first McDonald store was built “in 1940 by the original McDonald brothers‚ Dick and Mac. Later in 1954‚ Ray Kroc became the first official franchisee appointed by Dick and
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the commencement of fall recess‚ but also the opportunity to reconcile with longtime high school companions. With last minute phone calls and text messages‚ I managed to arrange a group dinner with some of my closest friends at a local‚ well-known restaurant‚ California Pizza Kitchen. Here‚ we planned to exchange and share college life experiences and catch up on life. Within American culture‚ the dinner table renders a hotspot for conversation and rendezvous. From a couple sharing an appetizer of
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company has restaurants all throughout North and South America‚ Europe‚ Australia and Asia‚ but are only thinly represented in the Middle East and Africa. The primary food products the company serves are hamburgers‚ cheeseburgers‚ chicken meals‚ french fries‚ coffee and milkshakes‚ but McDonald ’s is beginning to offer healthier products like wraps and salads. McDonald’s serves 64 million customers each day. McDonald’s sells its products in 117 countries and operates 32‚737 restaurants as of the
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and harder to find prime locations to build a set of golden arches. The U.S. is saturated with its restaurants‚ so growth will have to occur internationally‚ posing potential cultural challenges. While the annual dividend hikes are likely to continue‚ the dividend growth rate has been slowing and will probably continue to slow or level off. Opportunities: There are opportunities for new restaurants outside the United States‚ and McDonald’s has been taking advantage of them. China is a great opportunity
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14 | Company Background McDonald is a largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants in the world. Approximately 68 million customers in 119 countries daily are served. The birth of McDonald began with Raymond Albert Kroc. He found two brothers (Richard and Maurice McDonald) who run a hamburger restaurant and acquired the franchising right from them to run McDonald’s restaurant. In 1955‚ McDonald’s Corporation was founded by Ray Kroc and opened the first restaurant in Des Plaines‚ Illinois. In
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1. Executive Summary This case study seeks to evaluate the interests of various stakeholders of McDonald’s Corporation‚ its relation and impact to the organisation’s sustainability‚ with recommendations aimed at propelling the organization into a sustainable corporation. Among the strategic issues affecting sustainability are identified as obesity‚ advertisements targeting children‚ environmental pollution and treatments of animals. These and others factors have pressured McDonald’s to shift to
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Mission Statement McDonald’s mission statement is: "McDonald’s vision is to be the world’s best quick service restaurant experience. Being the best means providing outstanding quality‚ service‚ cleanliness and value‚ so that we make every customer in every restaurant smile. Strategy McDonald’s competitive strategy competes on several bases‚ including cost‚ respond‚ speed‚ and health issue. Their strongest priority is “making customers happy”. Product Maturity McDonald’s in is the
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I. Introduction A buffer system is a mixture of a weak acid or a weak base and its salt (conjugate base or conjugate acid‚ respectively) that permits solutions to resist large changes in pH upon the addition of small amounts of hydrogen ions (H+) or hydroxide ions (OH-). If the same amount of the buffer is added‚ the pH may only change a fraction of a unit. Our blood is a good example of a buffered system. It is maintained under a pH of 7.4. Thus‚ buffers are important in many areas of chemistry
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