...and tells the story of a nameless production line worker, in an industrialized world. The narrator is 1st person, and the story unfolds through the narrator’s point of view. The novel use high style language, the narrator uses a lot of irony, which makes it quite humorous to read at times. For an example “Dot lived in the Midlands, as she would’ve been an excellent pirate, giving blow jobs on the high seas” (L.36-37, p.2). His literal knowledge far exceeds the normal human being with no higher education. “In keeping with my station in society, and having been rejected by the bowling alley, I took a low-paid job at a sandwich factory.”(L.1-2. p.1.) The narrator has taken a job at a sandwich factory, where he is putting together the sandwiches. The narrator has possibly lost his old job, and therefore he seeks a new job. The “Bowling alley” rejected him, when he applied for a job there. Therefore he got a low paid job at the sandwich factory. He thinks highly about himself, and indicates that he holds a high status in society. His thoughts philosophize on many subjects regarding the factory and the people working there. His thoughts intertwining with his literary knowledge, creating strange metaphysical scenarios in this mind. “A whole factory full of workers who would bite your arm off to push a rock up a hill for eternity (so long as you gave us €4.50 an hour and the weekends off). I entertained a vision of one day being rich and hiring a bunch of faded paunchy managers...
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...What is operations management? Operations management defined Operations management is the activity of managing the resources which are devoted to the production and delivery of products and services. 1 The consultancy services market – % of world revenues of 40 largest consultancy firms Financial 6 Organizational design 11 Marketing / sales 2 Operations and process management 31 Benefits / actuarial 16 Corporate strategy 17 IT strategy 17 The operations function is fashionable! Back office operation in a bank Kitchen unit manufacturing operation Retail operation They are all operations Take-out / restaurant operation 2 The best way to start understanding the nature of ‘operations’ is to look around you Everything you can see around you (except the flesh and blood) has been processed by an operation Every service you consumed today (radio station, bus service, lecture, etc.) has also been produced by an operation Operations Managers create everything you buy, sit on, wear, eat, throw at people, and throw away A general model of operations management Transformed resources … Materials Information Customers Design Input resources Transforming resources … Facilities Staff Operations management Planning and control Operations strategy The operation’s strategic objectives Operations strategy The operation’s competitive role and position Improvement Output products and services Customers 3 Operations management at IKEA Design...
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...13 Market Strategy 15 D1: Four Ps 15 Product- 16 Pricing Strategy 16 Positioning Statement- 17 Promoting 17 D2. Price List- 17 D3. Selling Strategy 18 D4. Sales Forecast 19 Implementation Strategy 19 E1. Overall Strategy 19 E2. Implementation 20 E3. Control Plan 21 Financial Statements and Projections 21 F1. Revenue and Cost Estimate- 21 F2. Forecasted Profit and Loss Statement 22 F3. Forecasted Balance Sheet 22 G1. Financial Projections 22 G1a- Breakeven Point 22 G1b- Financial Position- 22 G1c-Capital/Investment Needs 22 References 24 Executive Summary Ali Baba is a fast food sit in or take-out restaurant that will serve Mediterranean style foods such as Chicken or Beef Shawarma and Gryo sandwiches. There is an increasing demand for healthy and filling fast foods at value pricing, we believe Ali Baba can fill this demand. Located in the Circle Center Mall in the city of Indianapolis Indiana we will be able to serve mall shoppers and companies in the surrounding area. A.2 Mission, Goals and Objectives- In the high competitive environment of today, it is becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate one fast food outlet from another. Indianapolis is a city that is full of activity and many things to do. We hope to become the first choice of mall customers when needing a quick bite while shopping throughout the mall and serve the...
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...cause or visit a child in the hospital, followed, of course, by a convoy of reporters. These “heroes” are showered with media attention and admiration. But in every community, there are also quiet heroes. I know several of these quiet heroes, ordinary people of all ages who work to make their community a better place. One of my heroes is Deb, an outgoing grandmother of three who works with Habitat for Humanity. Deb can wield a hammer with the best of them, but it is her talent for feeding people that makes her contribution special. Deb spends the morning chopping, slicing, and mixing in a kitchen filled with delicious aromas. By 11:30, she is on the road to the construction site. In winter, she may bring hot vegetable soup or Brunswick stew. On warm days, lunch may be homemade pimento cheese sandwiches, fruit, and iced tea. But day after day, Deb uses her money, time, and talent to keep the Habitat crew going. Another hero in our community is Pete, an accountant, who uses his clear, expressive voice to share the joys of reading. He is a member of the Rolling Readers, a group that visits elementary schools to interest children in reading. Pete reads every week to a class he has adopted. To keep the children reading over the summer, he gives each child a book furnished by the Rolling Readers program. Pete also shares his love of reading by volunteering for the Radio Reading Service for the blind and print-handicapped. Once a week, he gets up at six a.m. and drives...
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...restaurant. Starting as a hot dog stand, the McDonald brothers’ first restaurant had no play area, no happy meals, and didn’t even serve hamburgers. Ray Kroc transformed that concept into a fast food machine, starting first with hamburgers and fries and then always changing with American tastes and culture. By 2000, more than 43 million people visited one of McDonald’s 26,000 restaurants in 120 countries every single day. That translated to more than 15 billion customers a year with system-wide sales of over $40 billion. Yet the previous ten years had been traumatic for McDonald’s. In search of growth, the company had rushed from pizza and veggie burgers to popcorn and pasta. Massive campaigns to increase dinnertime sales with adult-targeted sandwiches like the Arch Deluxe were utter flops. And while McDonald’s was the clear market leader with 42% of the fast food burger share, competitors like Wendy’s had steadily nibbled at their core customers. Caught in the dot.com market excitement of 1999, little that McDonald’s did caught Wall Street’s attention. Even investments in food.com, a fast food delivery service, received nothing but yawns. To contain its archrival, Burger King, it...
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...restaurant. Starting as a hot dog stand, the McDonald brothers’ first restaurant had no play area, no happy meals, and didn’t even serve hamburgers. Ray Kroc transformed that concept into a fast food machine, starting first with hamburgers and fries and then always changing with American tastes and culture. By 2000, more than 43 million people visited one of McDonald’s 26,000 restaurants in 120 countries every single day. That translated to more than 15 billion customers a year with system-wide sales of over $40 billion. Yet the previous ten years had been traumatic for McDonald’s. In search of growth, the company had rushed from pizza and veggie burgers to popcorn and pasta. Massive campaigns to increase dinnertime sales with adult-targeted sandwiches like the Arch Deluxe were utter flops. And while McDonald’s was the clear market leader with 42% of the fast food burger share, competitors like Wendy’s had steadily nibbled at their core customers. Caught in the dot.com market excitement of 1999, little that McDonald’s did caught Wall Street’s attention. Even investments in food.com, a fast food delivery service, received nothing but yawns. To contain its archrival, Burger King, it...
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... This business plan describes a proposed venture to expand Busters from a one-store to two-store operation. b) Busters is a small retail store located in the lobby of a thriving large office building. It currently has three employees and sells snacks, sandwiches, beverages, cards, newspaper, books and small gift items. c) Ultimately, we hope to expand Busters so that it becomes a chain of 10-15 stores situated in the downtown office buildings. Statement of purpose The purpose of this Business Plan is to outline our current operations and map out our plans for expansion. Our goals are to raise additional capital through private loans and private equity injections from individuals who see the potential in this opportunity. This business plan provides a description of a proposed venture to expand our current retail operation from a onestore operation to a two-store. The reason for developing this new business plan is to include our second store to be located in the Luhrs Building in the Downtown Sector in Phoenix, Arizona. This location is approximately four blocks from the current Buster’s. We have secured a lease, effective Jan 15th, 2014. This building is currently under construction with an expected completion date of 30 Mar 2014. This space, in the building will house Buster’s Inc when the multiple, state of the art office building opens for business. 2. Organization of the business and key players Marsha Jones is the owner...
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...Valerie Bauer Case #1 Starbucks Due: 9/23/12 1. Based on the case information and your personal experiences, list at least five things you know about Starbucks. This list offers you some idea about your cognitions concerning the coffee shop chain. After reading the case I have a greater amount of knowledge about Starbucks. From my personal experience and from reading the case I know that starbucks is a fortune 500 company since the year of 2003. I know that Starbucks has expanded to over 16,000 stores worldwide. From reading the case I learned that Starbucks is trying to expand internationally and that they are trying to have 500 stores operating in Asia. I also know that starbucks not only sells coffee but they sell hot sandwiches, bakery items, a variety of games, and other great products. I also learned from reading the case that 63% of their employees are women. Cognition refers to what a person thinks and believes about a particular product. Consumers develop knowledge, meanings, and beliefs based on their experiences (Peter & Olson, 2010, P 21). These things that I know about Starbucks are based on my cognitions about this coffee shop chain. Knowledge about a company is important to me so facts such as Starbucks being a fortune 55 company since 2003, having over 16,000 stores, and trying to have 500 stores in Asia would be things that I would remember and find fascinating. My personal memories and experiences of going to Starbucks I always remember them being...
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..."Fooooood fight!" These two words launched one of the best known cafeteria food fights ever filmed—it’s a scene from Animal House, a 1978 campus comedy. While this food fight still makes people laugh, the film footage unfortunately solidified many of the negative stereotypes about college food and students’ unhealthy eating habits that we still hold today. Students are labeled as mindless overeaters who load up on junk food and unhealthy snacks and are believed to be clueless when it comes to healthy eating. Since Animal House was filmed, we continue to be bombarded with images and messages that students are hopeless eaters. It’s true that many students have difficulty moderating their eating, even those without clinical eating disorders. Studies on "normal" college eating habits highlight the unhealthy nature of many college students’ diets.1 Studies suggest between 30 to 70 percent of college students engage in "disordered eating habits." Disordered eating among college students can include weight preoccupation, binge eating, body dissatisfaction, obsessive focus on calories and fat, unhealthy eating, and compensatory behavior such as obsessive exercise and vomiting. While some eating problems don’t meet the full diagnostic criteria for anorexia and bulimia, they are a concern and warrant attention. "Disordered eating" and subclinical eating disorders/dieting can be distressing enough to interfere with academic work, health, relationships, and social life. Concerns...
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...1995 and operated in the 68 countries. One of the first fast food chains to international during the late 1960’s, KFC had developed one of the world’s most recognizable brands. Despite of the KFC’s past success in the U.S market, much of the KFC’s growth was driven by its international operations, which accounted for 94 percent of all KFC restaurants built in 1994 and for 100 percent of the increase in 1995. Domestically the restaurant count dropped by seven restaurants because of unit closures, intense competition among the largest fast food competitors resulted in a number of obstacles to further expansion in the U.S market. Expansion of free standing restaurants was particularly difficult. Fewer sites were available for new construction and those sites, because of their increase cost, were driving profit margins down. However the most critical or major issue of this case in the future will be their ability to handle changes. Their system is older, in terms of facilities and product form, and their attitudes still don’t reflect the realities of their changing business environment. One on the great challenges at KFC is that there is a lot that needs fixing and the toughest challenge is that they have to stay focused. They also have a significant service problem in a service driven industry. And they have to figure out a way to meet their customer service expectations which they don’t meet today. In 1996, the major problem was how to transition...
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...the thing that helps make the buyers choice easier or harder to make between two similar objects. Successful companies now how to reach everyone by using the right words, and by trying to appeal to everyone. As the one of the worlds biggest fast food branches McDonalds is easily recognizable in any country. How does a franchise get to be so big, and be so popular with such a large amount of different people. Simply, they have something for everyone; ice cream, hamburgers, french fries, chicken sandwiches, fish, coffee, breakfast food. All these things appeal to at least one person,except for maybe the fitness nuts, but even now the infamous McNuggets are all one-hundred percent real white meat. McDonalds continues to reach out to the unreachable, while still carrying the fast food restaurant name. They use commercials, constantly changing the technique from evidence of...
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...My present hall involvement takes the form of being a Reilly Hall Association officer. While I am a current member of Reilly Hall Association, I also hold a position as the advertiser for events run by ReHA (Reilly Hall Association), and am in charge of advertising for hall meetings. This past month, I was also in charge of designing and coordinating the construction of Reilly Hall’s homecoming float. In addition to these responsibilities, Reilly Hall Association has held two official events as of this date, one being the 47th Annual Grilled Cheese Event- where I and other members of ReHA worked together to cook a variety of grilled cheese sandwiches for Reilly residents. I also helped orchestrate the most recent hall event with a few other members of ReHA which was a Halloween event in combination with another RA’s program: Mocktails and Cattails (which educated students on alcohol consumption) whilst playing Halloween movies and providing popcorn and a variety of candy for residents....
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...because it contains important information about the franchise. The FDD provides key financial information such as the initial fees payable to the franchisor, annual royalties, likely start-up costs and probably most importantly, likely earnings from owning a franchise unit. If you are interested in finding out more about a franchise, it is essential that you get a copy of their latest FDD. | | Date Incorporation: 1954 Franchising Since: 1955 Headquarters: Canton, Massachusetts Business Description: A Dunkin' Donuts Store sells coffee, donuts, bagels, muffins, compatible bakery products, sandwiches, as well as other food items and beverages compatible with the franchisor’s concept. Franchise Offer: The franchise offered is for the right to operate a Restaurant, selling doughnuts, coffee, bagels, muffins, compatible bakery products, croissants, pizzas, snacks and other sandwiches and beverages that Dunkin’ Donuts approves. Dunkin’ Donuts encourages franchisees to develop a network of Restaurants within a targeted area or areas under the Store Development Program. Financial Assistance: The franchisor facilitates through third party lenders, financing for qualified franchisees. The amount of financing and period of repayment varies by program, circumstances, and creditworthiness of the applicant. Training and Assistance: Two individuals, one of whom must be the franchisee or another partner, shareholder (if franchisee is a corporation) or member (if...
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...area 8 4.3/business competitors 8 5/Marketing plan: 9 5.1/ S W O T analysis 9 5.2/ Marketing mix 10 5.3 growth plan 10 6/ Operations: 11 6.1-Overview 11 6.2 facilities and equipment 11 6.3 employees 11 6.4/suppliers 11 7/technology 12 8/Financial plan 12 8.1/ assumptions (appendices 1) 12 8.2/profit and loss projection (appendices 2) 13 8.3/cash flows projection (appendices3) 13 8.4break even analysis (appendices 4) 13 8.5 ratios analysis 14 Appendices 14 1-assumptions 14 2/ profit and loss 15 3/ cash flow 15 4/ break-even point 16 References 17 ------------------------------------------------- Formal Business Plan 1/ Executive summary: W B deli is a new sandwich delivery company that serves different kinds of sandwiches and salads as well as drinks and snacks such as crisps and chocolate bars. Our company makes also a homemade and tasty soup. Strategically located in Beddington lane, Croydon, a huge area which contains an industrial park formed of many companies. Croydon contains a big number of education institutions with more than twenty secondary...
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...Introduction Starbucks Corporation is an American global coffee company and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 20,891 stores in 62 countries, including 13,279 in the United States, 1,324 in Canada, 989 in Japan, 851 in China, 806 in the United Kingdom, 556 in South Korea, 377 in Mexico, 291 in Taiwan, 206 in the Philippines, 171 in Thailand and 10 in India. Starbucks locations serve hot and cold beverages, whole-bean coffee, microground instant coffee, full-leaf teas, pastries, and snacks. Most stores also sell packaged food items, hot and cold sandwiches, and items such as mugs and tumblers. Starbucks Evenings locations also offer a variety of beers, wines, and appetizers after 4pm. Through the Starbucks Entertainment division and Hear Music brand, the company also markets books, music, and film. Many of the company's products are seasonal or specific to the locality of the store. Starbucks-brand ice cream and coffee are also offered at grocery stores. From Starbucks' founding in 1971 in Seattle as a local coffee bean roaster and retailer, the company has expanded rapidly. Since 1987, Starbucks has opened on average two new stores every day. The first store outside the United States or Canada opened in the mid-1990s, and overseas stores now constitute almost one third of Starbucks' stores. The company planned to open a net of 900 new stores outside of the United States in 2009, but has announced...
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