...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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...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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...Table of Contents Scenario 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...
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...Market opportunity 1 Market opportunities is a situation in which a product, service, etc. that is potentially wanted or needed by consumers is identified by a business as not being supplied by rival companies. Merlin creates several opportunities in opening new resorts. Recently they have opened Knight Village in Warwick Castle as they don’t currently have a tourist accommodation available to the public. This new investment will cost up to £3 million and be available to visit all year round. Merlin have used their skills to take advantage of the gap in the market. By doing this merlin have built many parks around the world which are designed for many different markets. There is also a new launched project planned by merlin called the knight...
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...Mc-Donald Vs Domino’s - Comparative Analysis Determinant Of Choosing Fast Food Restaurant And Their Service Quality BY:- ANUJ CHAUHAN (FINANCE + MARKETING) ITM UNIVERSITY, SITHOLI, GWALIOR ABSTRACT SERVICE QUALITY Parasuraman et al. (1988) introduced a 22-item scale, called SERVQUAL, for measuring service quality, the model has been widely adopted across industries. The scale was tested in 4 service settings different from those of the original test: a dental school patient clinic, a business school placement center, a tire store, and an acute care hospital. In service industries, customer satisfaction is always influenced by the quality of interactions between customers and the personnel involved in the contact services (1994). In the last decade, the movement towards quality had started to spread from the manufacturing sector to the service sector. The shift of focus to quality is basic for the service business to survive the competition, get acceptance from society, and be able to achieve its missions. In principle, the two main things closely related to services are expected quality and experienced or perceived quality. The first is the customers' expectations of service quality and the latter is the customers' perceptions of service quality. The customers will always assess the services they experienced by comparing them with whatever they expected or wished to receive. Services are behavioral rather than physical entities and have been described...
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...vehicle emissions, water pollution from fertilizers, and loss of biodiversity (CIA World factbook1). It is something I will most likely not worry about though. However, avalanche, landslides, and flash floods could be something that I may study prior to leaving to avoid it. I will be able to use my credit card as usual in the country, as long as I notify my bank in advance. This will take hassle out of carrying cash and worrying about the latest currency exchange rate or thieves. Safety and travelling systems are rated A, which means strict rules and regulations. For ex, travelling through highways requires a sticker that needs to be purchased prior to travelling (CountryWatch1 ,159). I would like to go for at least a week with my family (husband and son). I would visit in summer, since I get cold easily and will not be able to colorful scenery. One of the places I would like to visit is the Island of Brissago (see attachment A1), a botanical garden of the Canton Ticino. It is the only botanical garden on an island in Switzerland (MySwitzerland4). And the best part is that it has the mildest climate in the Switzerland in summer. It has three different types of climates in the country, unlike most others in the Europe. According to the textbook, it has marine west-coast climate (no winter months average below freezing, though cold rain, sleet, and occasional...
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...The Murcia region, located in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, is a region consisting of a single province and its capital Murcia. It lies between the community of Andalucia (between the provinces of Almería and Granada), Castilla La Mancha (Albacete) and Valencia (Alicante). The total population of the region is about 1.500.000 inhabitants, distributed mostly around the cities of Murcia, Cartagena and Lorca. The flag of this region consists of seven crowns and four castles. These last elements on the flag evoke the frontier character of the region along its history; while on the other hand, the seven crowns evoke real concessions granted to the region as a sign of appreciation for the loyalty of the region. The Region of Murcia has a characteristic dialect, of Romance origin, which emerged during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, with large distinct peculiarities. On one hand, we find variants that come from Arabic to Aragon, through the Andalusian romance. The most important resources of this region are quite varied. It is among the largest producers of vegetables, fruits and flowers of Europe, like wine, being Yecla the city's largest exporter. In turn, the tourism sector is of great importance in the region, as the region's coast has pristine spaces and the largest salt lake in Europe, the Mar Menor. Finally, industry production in Murcia that stand out are petro-chemical and energy (Cartagena). GOVERNMENT Transportation in Murcia is divided...
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...Professional Training Report | MATHIEU CHANOUX | Contact : mathieu.chanoux@gmail.com06 30 33 76 58IEMI – CMHMBA 1 A | 10/04/2013 10/04/2013 2. Acknowledgment First off, I would like to thank my professional tutor during my internship in the Disneyland Hotel Mr. Ruben Hilberink, who allowed me to use his research on performance quality management while he was in college which inspired me in finding the company problem statement of this paper. While his research focused more in the implementation of performance management in the workplace in general, he advised me that it could be a good subject concerning the hospitality industry, precisely at the level of the reception where the performance can be measured easily. Following his advice and being interested by the subject, I therefore decided to study more precisely this process and how it was implemented, rightly or not, in the Disneyland Hotel. Apart from this person, I would also like to thank my manager Mr. Oliver Drutschmann who hired me as a Team Leader intern and allowed me to work in this environment, involving me in several projects such as the transformation process of the majority our standard rooms in terrace rooms situated in the main floor of our hotel (in order to get a higher average price / room) or empowering me and other team leaders in taking operational decision related to management. I had also the opportunity to work with a wonderful team, always available if needed and I’m grateful to them as...
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...Introduction McDonalds is one of the best known brands worldwide. It is a fast food restaurant that primarily sells hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken products, french fries, breakfast items, soft drinks, milkshakes, and deserts. Many people just don’t have the time to sit at a restaurant for hours and order food that will cost them a fortune. Everything in New York City cost money and is expensive, opening a McDonalds restaurant in Times Square will give many customers the option of going to a restaurant or just stopping by McDonalds to get something quick and cheap to eat. I will not only provide fast food, my restaurant will also have an entertainment center for children and adults that chose to sit in and eat. In my report I will convince you why it will be very successful and why I decided to open a McDonald’s franchise. I will also give you an overview of my business, its competition, and how I will run it. My McDonalds will not be like any other McDonalds; I’ve worked at McDonalds for a few years as a manager and will take a whole new approach in running this McDonalds. Business Overview I chose to start a fast food restaurant that will not only provide fast food for those on the go but will also entertain those that choose to sit in. I thought of opening my own fast food restaurant but I much rather open my own McDonalds franchise. I opened my own McDonalds franchise through the McDonalds Corporation. My business will be run like every other McDonalds but...
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...SWOT Analysis Magic Kingdom Park Richard Gay Qingkai Meng Marianna Tkacheva Fall 2010 Table of Contents SWOT Analysis: Magic Kingdom Park Part I - Overview 3 Part II – Current Marketing Mix Strategy 4 Part III – Internal & External Forces – SWOT Analysis 5 Part IV – Recommendations for Future Action 7 Part V – Bibliography 9 Part I: Overview Magic Kingdom Park is located in Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando Florida and is part of The Walt Disney Company’s Parks and Resorts. The Walt Disney Company (Disney) does not report financial performance results specific to Magic Kingdom Park. However, according to Disney’s 2009 annual report, 2009 revenues for the Parks and Resorts affiliate were reported at $10.7 billion, which was down $800 million from 2008, but up slightly from 2007. Operating income on the $10.7 billion in revenue for 2009 was $1.4 billion. According to the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA), the Magic Kingdom drew an estimated 17.2 million visitors in 2009. And, Disney held nine of the top ten in attendance for theme parks worldwide. In terms of industry size, comparisons specific to WDW or Magic kingdom Park are difficult to grasp. Walt Disney World Florida, which encompasses 47 square miles, is the largest amusement park in the world. The International Association of Amusement parks and Attractions, for example, reports approximately 400 parks and attractions...
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...A kitchen is a room or part of a room used for cooking and food preparation. In the West, a modern residential kitchen is typically equipped with a stove, a sink with hot and cold running water, a refrigerator and kitchen cabinets arranged according to a modular design. Many households have a microwave oven, a dishwasher and other electric appliances. The main function of a kitchen is cooking or preparing food but it may also be used for dining, food storage, entertaining, dishwashing and laundry. The evolution of the kitchen is linked to the invention of the cooking range or stove and the development of water infrastructure capable of supplying water to private homes. Until the 18th century, food was cooked over an open fire. Technical advances in heating food in the 18th and 19th centuries, changed the architecture of the kitchen. Before the advent of modern pipes, water was brought from an outdoor source such as wells, pumps or springs. Antiquity[edit source | editbeta] The houses in Ancient Greece were commonly of the atrium-type: the rooms were arranged around a central courtyard for women. In many such homes, a covered but otherwise open patio served as the kitchen. Homes of the wealthy had the kitchen as a separate room, usually next to a bathroom (so that both rooms could be heated by the kitchen fire), both rooms being accessible from the court. In such houses, there was often a separate small storage room in the back of the kitchen used for storing food and kitchen...
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...Table of Contents Executive summary 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Research Methodology 3.0 Secondary Data 3.1 The 2011 retail and leisure report prepared by DTZ for Canterbury City Council 3.2 The 2014 Canterbury District Local Plan Publication Draft (CDLP Publication Draft) 3.3 Canterbury.gov.com (official city council website) 3.4 Canterbury.co.uk (official tourism website) 3.5 The 2013 consumer lifestyle in the UK report by Euromonitor 4.0 Primary Data 4.1 Focus Groups 4.2 One-to-one interviews 4.3 Questionnaire 4.4 Sampling 5.0 Results and Analysis 6.0 Conclusion 7.0 Appendices 7.1 Appendix 1: Focus Group Transcripts 7.2 Appendix 2: One-to-one interview Transcript 7.3 Appendix 3: Questionnaire 8.0 Bibliography Executive Summary This report was commissioned by Canterbury City Council to investigate the demand for current and new leisure facilities. These researchers have also determined how the parent market could affect the demand for local businesses and tourist attractions. To conduct this study researchers had to formulate some research aims and objectives. The research design involved collecting qualitative data through focus groups and one-to-one interviews as primary data however quantitative research was conducted through designing an online survey which was distributed to a sample of 107 people. The collection of secondary research helped identify the gaps within the current leisure market and provided a broad overview of the different...
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...Entertainment, Consumer Products and Interactive. For convenience, the terms “Company” and “we” are used to refer collectively to the parent company and the subsidiaries through which our various businesses are actually conducted. * Information on the Company’s revenues, operating income, and identifiable assets appears in Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8 here of. The Company employed approximately 166,000 people as of September 29, 2012. * MEDIA NETWORK -The Media Networks segment includes international and domestic cable television networks, a domestic broadcast television network, television production operations, domestic and international television distribution, domestic television stations, domestic broadcast radio networks and stations, and publishing and digital operations. * Cable Networks - Cable networks derive a majority of their revenues from fees charged to cable, satellite and telecommunications service providers (Multi-channel Video Programming Distributors or MVPDs) for the right to deliver our programming to their customers and, for certain networks (primarily ESPN and ABC Family), the sale to advertisers of time in network programs for commercial announcements. Generally, the Company’s cable networks operate under multi-year agreements with MVPDs that include contractually determined fees. The amounts that we can charge to MVPDs for our cable network services are largely...
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...Constituent country | England | Region | East Midlands | Ceremonial county | Northamptonshire | Admin HQ | Northampton Guildhall | Town charter | 1189 | Incorporated | 1835 | Government | • Type | Non-metropolitan district | • Governing body | Northampton Borough Council | • Leader | David Mackintosh (Con) | • Mayor | John Caswell (Con) | • MPs | Brian Binley (Con) Michael Ellis (Con) Andrea Leadsom (Con) | Area | • Total | 31.18 sq mi (80.76 km2) | Population (2011 est.) | • Total | 212,500 (Ranked 73rd) | • Density | 6,810/sq mi (2,631/km2) | • Ethnicity | 84.5% White 6.4% South Asian 5.1% Black 3.2% Mixed Race 0.3% Arab 0.5% Other | Demonym | Northamptonian | Time zone | GMT (UTC0) | • Summer (DST) | BST (UTC+1) | Postcode area | NN1—NN6 | Area code(s) | 01604 | ISO 3166-2 | GB-NTH | ONS code | 34UF (ONS) E07000154 (GSS) | NUTS 3 | UKF24 | Website | northampton.gov.uk | Northampton i/nɔrˈθæmptən/ is the county town of Northamptonshire in the East Midlands of England. It lies on the River Nene, about 67 miles (108 km) north-west of London and 50 miles (80 km) south-east of Birmingham. In 2011, it had a population of 212,100. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods. During the Middle Ages, the town rose to national...
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...people who shuttle between home and work for a bigger part of the day but also eliminated the requirement of conventional cutlery. This industry at the moment thrives on international appeal endorsed by niche chains. The development of nutritious and healthier replacements for the traditional servings at fast food restaurants has transformed into mass promotion of portable foods. As per a new research report titled ‘Indian Fast Food Market Analysis’, currently the Indian fast food industry stands at a massive size of ` 47 billion, driven by a growing number of working professionals and increasing westernization. Apart from this, busy life schedule, standardized food, and less time-consuming processes are also fuelling the demand from domestic consumers in the industry. As demand for all types of fast food items are consistently on the rise, pizza, burger, and French fries have become the all time favorite among young Indians, more so with some of the well-known burger and pizza restaurants like McDonald’s, Domino’s, KFC, Pizza Hut, Nirula’s etc, operating in India. Consumers’ first choice As far as products are concerned, instant noodles and pasta are at a nascent stage but are fast evolving in the Indian fast food business. Demand for...
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