...Executive Summary Castle’s Family Restaurant has been a highly successful restaurant operating in the northern California area for the last thirteen (13) years. As a family-owned chain, the restaurant as proven success by operating eight (8) restaurants under the family name. In an effort to continue achieving the high levels of success that it has experienced over the years and possibly expand further, certain aspects of the operation of the company will have to be controlled by technology. One such area is the HR process that has become a manual, time consuming, daunting process. Castle’s can improve their HR operations and support their growing company overall, by implementing a web-based HRIS. After much research and evaluating the needs of the organization my recommendation to help with automating the HR process would be Asentis. This web-based software would be an asset to the restaurant chain. It would assist the operations manager, Jay Morgan is carrying out his duties in a more time effective manner rather than driving from store to store to deal with HR issues. Asentis is secure, comprehensive, caters to the needs of a growing business and is very easy to use. Asentis will assist with the payroll process and other aspects of the business including scheduling, benefits management etc. Additionally, with a staff of 340 plus, having this system will allow for better scheduling which can also be tied into the payroll system once implemented that way. The software...
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...Castle Business Plan Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage III Susanna Vilim DeVry University HRM-340 1 Castle Business Plan Table of Contents Item Table of Contents Executive Summary Introduction Page # 2 3- 4 5 Company Review 6- 7 Business Analysis 8 - 11 HRIS Type/Comparison 12 - 14 HRIS Recommendation 15 - 17 Conclusion 18 Bibliography 19 2 Castle Business Plan Executive Summary Castle’s Family Restaurant being the successful family owned chain of restaurants completing in a dynamic yet economically challenged environment is to be commended. To continue to achieve the strategic business objectives of living out the corporate mission and expanding the current chain, the business plan set forth in detail will address current challenges being faced in payroll processes and the recommendations in addressing each of these needs so that the organization can meet and exceed current and future goals. Jay Morgan, operations manager, currently carries the responsibilities associated with payroll activities. Payroll processes are vital to the organization and the risks associated with implementing these activities are high. Implementing an automated Human Resource Information System (HRIS) will mitigate these risks and in turn will be beneficial to current and future objectives in growing the organization. Currently Castles utilize Compeat to address other aspects of the business; the recommendation...
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...Stage Introduction 3 Business Assessment 4 Identified Problems 4 HRIS Needs Assessment 5 Proposed Model of Castle's Family Restaurant HRIS 6 Conclusion 7 References____ ____________________________________8____ SCENARIO STAGE 1 INTRODUCTION Castle's Family Restaurant has eight restaurants in the Northern California area with approximately 300-340 employees. Most of the employees are part time with approximately 40% of them full time. The Operations Manager, (Mr Jay Morgan), also acts as the HR manager and travels to each location every week to take care of scheduling, recruiting, hiring and answering questions for the employees as needed. He also takes care of payroll using an Excel spread sheet and has a computer application to print payroll checks. Mr Morgan approaches you, (an HR Consultant), for a proposal. Due to the increase in gasoline costs, he would like to greatly reduce his travel time for visiting each location each week and wonders if there is anything you can suggest to him to help him complete his HR tasks in a cost-effective manner. He hopes there is some way he can do part of his HR tasks from his office instead of traveling to each location. BUSINESS ASSESSMENT: (Per Professor Ficken)- The name, type, and size of business you're assisting; make assumptions...
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...Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage III Lamont Stokes Keller Graduate School Executive Summary The business is a food chain restaurant that is located in Northern California with roughly 300-400 full time and part time employees. There are other competitions within the area which are other fast food restaurants and we all serve the customer that wants fast food, but we are more family oriented. The majority overview of this business plan was to review and discuss the HRIS needs of the company, the type of HRIS that will be used and also what vendor would be providing these services to Castle's Family Restaurant. Introduction This business plan will discuss the importance and the benefits of having an HRIS implemented for the payroll function of the Castle Family Restaurant. Discussing of the Vendor that is selected and some key information on what the vendor provides is available in the paper. This paper will serve as a recommendation to assist the company in streamlining the payroll function of the business. Company Review The name of the business that we are evaluating is called Castle’s Family restaurant. The business is currently located in Northern California and has approximately 300-340 employees. Most of the employees at Castle’s Family restaurant are part-time with about 40% of the employees being full time. As we take a look of...
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...Introduction The Castle’s Family Restaurant has the potential to become more successful if it invests in automation of its HR functions. In other words, an HRIS would assist this family business to become more efficient. The purpose of the HRIS is to provide accurate and timely service to companies so that they can use the additional time to improve their business (Kavanagh, 2012, p.17). The Castle’s Family Restaurant can also reduce the costs of their business by having all the information in one place, which will be used multiple times by managers and employees. Therefore, this will prevent the company from performing a particular process manually, which can be time consuming. When choosing to automate an HR function, it is important to understand its content and the benefits it will provide for the business. Since this family restaurant has over 300 employees, it is necessary to begin by using an HRIS application and choose a vendor that would best meet the restaurants’ needs. As it was mentioned previously, Castle’s Family Restaurant would improve its restaurant productivity, retention, training, and profits if it invested in an HRIS to assist Mr. Morgan complete his HR tasks in a cost-effective and timely manner. This would also provide Mr. Morgan with more time to dive into the more operational side of the business in order to reach organizational goals. Last, the HRIS would benefit the employees as well because they would have access to their payments, work schedule...
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...The purpose of this business plan is to understand the restaurants business and its operations to improve its customer service and its employee relations. The Castle Family Restaurant has eight restaurants that operate under one regional manager that also acts as the Human Resource Manager for the restaurants. The goal is to develop a plan that can decrease the travel time for the regional manager, Jay Morgan so that he may save on gas expenses traveling between each eight restaurants in the Northern California area. The objective is to introduce an HRIS application and one vendor that can assist in the developing of the HR department and ease the transitioning of one individual HR manager to multiple employees. There are restaurants with profits in mind and provide the same food and service while the Castle’s Family believes in family, partnerships and developing relationships with one another for a great customer service. Introduction Castle‘s Family Restaurants and it’s eight locations in Northern California employed 300-340 employees and operated under one regional manager, Jay Morgan, who is also acting as Human Resource Manager for all restaurant locations. A business plan will help Mr. Morgan with the transition, as we apply an HRIS to manage all HR and payroll needs as a solution to the time and cost problem that founded in the business exploration. Castle's Family Restaurant continues to grow along with the Human Resource needs to keep the business operative. Company...
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...Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage I Introduction Human Resource management teams work with the performance of activities such as bookkeeping, upholding policies and guidelines, employee performances, and ensuring that labor laws are enforced. Human resource managers utilize information systems to help in their daily duties of payroll, training, and organizations of personnel files. Human Resource managers develop and analyze functions that will determine the specific type of Human Resource Information system application is necessary to automate and create a strategic alliance for the Human resource department. The importance of determining the type of human resource information system application is to define which system can help make the business run more smoothly. A system is used to store, manipulate, analyze, acquire, retrieve and distribute important information. An HRIS system will help Human resource managers by providing them with more data on strategic levels and allow for the function of more efficient and better information for decision making. Business Assessment The Castle Family Restaurants has eight locations throughout Northern California. They currently have eight restaurants; only 40% of the employees are full time, with approximately 300-340 employees. In most traditional restaurants the food service managers are generally responsible for the daily operations of the restaurant. The Castle Family restaurant is currently being operated...
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...enables an HR (Human Resource) department to streamline its activities and the demands placed on it by automating the Human Resource data and processes necessary for the management of the human capital of the organization”, (Kavanagh, Thite & Johnson, 2012, p. 4). Human Resource Information Systems allow HR managers to perform at optimum levels. This is done through the automation of key employee data and processes which essentially increases efficiency and reduces error and wastage of time. In the case of the Castle’s Family Restaurant chain, the investment in and implementation of an HRIS will impact the HR manager and department tremendously increasing the productivity of the department and reducing costs of having to manually perform the very intricate functions of HRM. Business Assessment Castle’s Family Restaurant is chain with 8 branches in the northern California area. Although the company has branches in several locations, the number of staff which the Castle’s enterprise employs averages about 320...
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...Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage II Jonquil Walker DeVry University Introduction The Castle Family is a small restaurant with 8 locations in northern California. The operations manager is also the HR manager Jay Morgan is responsible for 300 to 340 employees 40% of which are full time. They are looking for alternative ways to conduct the HR portion of the business that will save them gas and time. Jay Morgan currently drives to each restaurant each week to handle scheduling, hiring employee HR issues as well as payroll and the distribution of pay checks. HRIS Type/Comparison I would to suggest a system that will optimally allow employees to have direct access to the data and provide them with the ability to update their own personal information. This information’s will provide online application for hiring new employees for the recruiting portion of Jay Morgan’s HR duties. The system will also have the capability to screen the application saving time on the manual reviewing of unqualified applicants. It will have a drop box portion to allow employees to ask questions without having to wait for Jay to arrive one day a week to ask them questions about any issues. Jay will be able to handle the questions as soon as they are asked in real time so Jay can deal with issues as soon as possible. Employees will be able to submit time as they go and input the information daily and or as needed and utilize the system to automatically calculated their hours...
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...Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage III DeVry University December 11, 2011 Table of Contents Table of Contents --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Executive Summary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Introduction ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Company Review ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 Business Analysis -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 6 HRIS Type/Comparison -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 HRIS Recommendation -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 8 Conclusion ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9 Reference -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 Executive Summary This restaurant business plan is for Castle’s Family Restaurant, eight medium-sized restaurants located in small unique cities throughout Northern California. One of the primary business characteristics of Castle’s is to project a food business which can easily provide the best products and services to its customers. Castle’s offers two distinctive dining rooms and menus: the Castle Room, an elegant dining...
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...Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage II April Reid November, 26 2010 DeVry University Mr. Morgan now that I have assessed your business needs I want to go even further and explain the details of the HRIS application I feel would be beneficial to you and your company Castle’s Family Restaurants. The HRIS I mentioned to you before that I feel would work best for you is the Management Information System (MIS). HRIS TYPE: The MIS system will allow for the eight stores to be connected to you at your location of work. You will be able to significantly cut down your time on the road away from the office as well as the gas that it is costing you in your travels. This will provide you with reports, current performance and historical information and it will also provide you with the ability to plan, control and make important decisions without having to travel to every store each week. You will also be able to conduct payroll properly by obtaining the information via the internet and shared information between each of the stores, by accessing the employees weekly work schedule from the comfort of your office. You will also be able to make the checks and have them processed in a timely manner for each pay period. MIS will also give you a transaction processing system, which simply records the routine transactions needed to conduct your business, such as shipping, or sales orders; and office automation systems, which are intended to increase the productivity of your office...
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...Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan DeVry University BUSINESS ASSESSMENT This is to assess the unnecessary travel costs of Mr. Morgan who works for Castle’s Family Restaurants which consist of eight northern California locations with approximately 300 to 340 employees and suggest a HRIS solution. The employees are made up of about 40% full-time and 60% part-time. As operations manager and human resource manager, Jay Morgan finds that he has a hard time maintaining all of the responsibilities that are required of him. He travels to each of the eight locations every week to take care of scheduling, recruiting, hiring and answering questions for the employees as needed along with the everyday operations of each restaurant. In addition, Mr. Morgan is responsible for payroll and is currently using an Excel spreadsheet and a computer application to print the payroll checks. Mr. Morgan is looking to reduce his travel time and expenses, complete his HR and payroll tasks more efficiently and allow him more time as operations manager. IDENTIFIED PROBLEMS I have identified several problem areas that a new HRIS could possibly benefit. Our goal is to eliminate the use of paper employee manuals, maintain potential, former and current employee records, manage schedules, recruiting, hiring, payroll and streamline product ordering and stock inventory records. I believe that the first need is to get a program set up that will manage the human resource and payroll processes. ...
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...Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage 2 Ethen Royal DeVry University Introduction: Mr. Morgan, now that Royal Consulting Firm has assessed your business needs, we want to go even further and explain the details of the HRIS application. The HRIS that we feel would work out the best for your business is the Management Information System (MIS). This system will help you with the issues you are currently having with payroll. HRIS Type: The MIS system allows up to eight stores to be connected to you and your location of work. This will be significant for you to be able to cut down your time on the road and not be away from the office as much as you currently are. This system will provide you with current and past reports, current and past performances and any helpful historical information, and it will also provide you with the ability to plan, control and make important decisions about each store every week. You will also be able to conduct payroll properly by obtaining information via internet and any shared information between every one of your stores, by accessing employees weekly work schedules in the comfort of your office at the main restaurant. You also will be able to make checks and process them in a timely manner for every pay period. MIS also gives you a transaction processing system; this system simply records routine transactions that are needed to conduct business. Business functions such as: shipping, sales orders; and office automation systems...
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...This is your business plan template. There should be no copy/pasted information in this final project. However, all theory must be cited according to APA standards. All items in blue need to be completed. There are instructions for each section. Be sure to change the font color to black before submitting. Insure that you proofread for clarity and proper writing skills. This document should be professional in appearance as well as content. Remove all blue/red instructions before submitting assignment or points may be impacted. Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage III Tammy Nickell DeVry University Table of Contents Item | Page # | Table of Contents | 2 | Executive SummaryThis section should be written last. It provides the reader with an overview of your business plan. This section includes a brief description of the business, the goal of your business plan, your customer’s market/clientele, their current “like” competition, and current business operations, and potential fiscal plan (fiscal plan may be assumed based on current manual process compared to pricing of automation). | 3 | Introduction/ConclusionIntroduction provides sufficient background on the topic and previews major points. Conclusion is logical, flows from the body of the paper, and reviews the major points. | | Company ReviewThis section should summarize the information from your Stage I paper. Provide a basic industry outline. Is it a growth industry? What changes do you...
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...This is your business plan template. There should be no copy/pasted information in this final project. However, all theory must be cited according to APA standards. All items in blue need to be completed. There are instructions for each section. Be sure to change the font color to black before submitting. Insure that you proofread for clarity and proper writing skills. This document should be professional in appearance as well as content. Remove all blue/red instructions before submitting assignment or points may be impacted. Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage III Student Name DeVry University Table of Contents Item | Page # | Table of Contents | 2 | Executive SummaryThis section should be written last. It provides the reader with an overview of your business plan. This section includes a brief description of the business, the goal of your business plan, your customer’s market/clientele, their current “like” competition, and current business operations, and potential fiscal plan (fiscal plan may be assumed based on current manual process compared to pricing of automation). | 3 | Introduction/ConclusionIntroduction provides sufficient background on the topic and previews major points. Conclusion is logical, flows from the body of the paper, and reviews the major points. | | Company ReviewThis section should summarize the information from your Stage I paper. Provide a basic industry outline. Is it a growth industry? What changes do you...
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