Boston Chicken, Inc.

The company of restaurants started in 1946 when Truett Cathy opened his first restaurant in Georgia. They are credited with inventing the Chick-Fil-A’s boneless breast of chicken sandwich. In the 1960’s, he pioneered the opening of the restaurant in different malls in Atlanta. It has grown to become the largest quick service chicken restaurant chain in the United States based on their domestic annual sales and with over 1900 branches countrywide. The restaurant is privately held and family owned and has been progressing in the delivery of exclusive services to all their customers. The mission of the restaurant is to give identity and value to their clients and the vision is to be America’s best service quick restaurant.

Chipotle’s operating income increased from $108.2 million in 2007 to $532.7 million in 2013. This produces a CAGR of 30.43%. Rising market prices for natural meats and organically grown ingredients led to Chipotle’s rising costs for food and beverage from 31.9% of revenues in 2007 to 33.4% in 2013 and a CAGR of “only” 30.43%. Besides the operating income, the operating profit margin increased almost every year (10% in 2007, 13.4% in 2009, 15.7% in 2010 and 15.4% in 2011). In 2013 Chipotle had a profit margin of 16.6%, while in 2012 the profit margin was 16.7%. This effect should not be exaggerated, as the total revenue and operating income in 2013 was still higher than the total revenue and operating income in 2012. In addition, the net income almost quintupled from $70.6 million in 2007 to $327.4 million in 2013, generating a CAGR of

Boston Chicken implemented a franchising strategy that differed from most other franchising companies at the time. Boston Chicken focused its expansion through franchising the company through large regional developers rather than selling store franchises to a large number of small franchisees. In that, an established network of 22 regional franchises that targeted their operations in the 60 largest U.S. metropolitan markets and in order to do so, the franchisee would have been an independent experienced businessman with vast financial resources and would be responsible for opening 50 – 100 stored in the region. Boston Chicken focused on widespread

I was immediately intrigued from the beginning of Food, Inc. There was interesting and valuable information brought up during the film. Many people do not think about where their food comes from. I believe that if people were to know where their food comes from, they would not want to eat it. There are 47,000 products at a grocery store. But, Food, Inc. implies that this is in fact an illusion because all of them are made with the same crops. The fact that there are only a few multi-national corporations that control all of the crops and meat production is a huge surprise. I believe that each person in society would be absolutely shocked if they were to watch this documentary.

With KFC operating as a franchise, it is required to pay a percentage of the revenue it has received to its parent company located in the United States. One of the important factors to be considered is regarding the current economic condition and growth forecast of the country it is operating in. In addition if the economy is experiencing a downturn, therefore affecting the country’s income per-capita, surely KFC shall be experiencing a decrease in the demand of their product. However, if the economic climate of the country is good which leads to an increase in disposable income, then more people are willing to spend their money at fast food restaurant that is considered a

Chick-Fil-A is an American food restaurant franchise having its head office in Georgia, USA. The company was established in 1946 and has gradually entrenched itself in the American food industry as a cultural icon in the Southern United States for its specialty in preparation of chicken sandwiches. Chick-Fil-A prides itself for the establishment of over1690 branches located within the United States alone as well as its economic contribution to the larger part of Western America and California. It realized sales of around $4.6 billion in 2012, which reflected a 14 percent increase over the overall performance experienced in the previous year by the chain while the same-store sales performance increased by 8 percent. In Houston, Texas, the greatest performer realized a 7.2 million total gross sales in 2012. Chick-Fil-A uses a significantly distinct model, notable in the retention of the ownership of each restaurant since its acquisition. Chick-Fil-A selects the most suitable restaurant location, undertakes its construction, then takes over its ownership. Chick-Fil-A requires a payment of only a $5,000 as capital to become an owner of their branch while its rival franchises pay almost $2 million. The company receives over 15, 000 submissions annually from interested franchise operators for the available 70 slots. Chick-Fil-A receives a bigger allocation of income in comparison to other chains amounting to $190,000 per year. Chick-Fil-A’s solid mission statement and its

Overview The Boston Beer Company has had amazing success in its transition from a small scale microbrewer to a large scale national brewery. Almost all of the company’s success is due to the Samuel Adams Lager product line, which has hardly changed from the founding of the company in 1984, to the IPO in 1995, to the present day. In fact, much of the appeal of Samuel Adams comes from its microbrew image and the founder, Jim Koch’s, commitment to the brewing process and a premium beer. In recent years, however, the company has implemented a new strategy for growth which has included introducing a light beer that

Because most services are dependent upon people (employees, customers), HHBBQ must avoid past mistakes in variations in quality and inconsistency such as overstaffing, food waste, and less than ideal image promotion (Ferrell & Hartline, 198) to maintain high service quality and profitability.  Although service quality is a subjective phenomenon (Ferrell & Hartline, 198),  this particular marketplace would not allow for service customization but allow HHBBQ to focus on food quality and speed of service to meet their customers’ needs.

In this paper, we present a detailed financial analysis of the Regency Blue Ribbon Restaurant. In the analysis, we include a detailed calculation of the 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 profitability, financial and business activity ratios. The profitability ratio calculation is limited to the calculation of Gross Profit, Net Profit and Return on Owner's Equity (ROI). The Financial stability ratio analysis involves the calculation of the Working capital/current and Debt while the business activity ratio analysis involves the calculation of the accounts receivables turnover. While performing the above calculations, the credit sales are pegged at 10% of the total sales while the credit terms are paged at net 30 days. After the calculation and analysis, we perform a further analysis aimed at comparing the results with industry averages. The actions to be taken in order to achieve future results that are close to or even better than the industry averages are then presented. We then discuss the future concerns that are identified in the given forecast as well as the necessary actions for addressing them.

During the Great Depression, Arkansas poultry farmer John Tyson supported his family by selling vegetables and poultry. In 1935, after developing a method for transporting live poultry (he installed a food-and-water trough and nailed small feed cups on a trailer), he bought 500 chickens in Arkansas and sold them in Chicago (Hoovers, 2011).

The Bargaining Power of Suppliers - According to the article “Company Overview,” the bargaining power of suppliers is low because there are many suppliers to choose from, and big QSR chains make up their largest and most profitable customers. AFC Enterprises currently deals with four quantified suppliers: Pilgrim’s Pride, the largest producer of chicken in the United States; Sysco Corp, the world’s largest broadline food distributer; Xformity Technology, which provides software and other business solutions to QSR’s; and Micros Systems, which offers hardware and point-of-sale solutions to help make restaurant operations more efficient (“Company Overview,”

b. Sales and profits earned at the franchised outlets very comparatively higher and stronger than what Panera could make

Belco Global Foods is a leading marketer of poultry, meat and other food products. Majority of their products are sourced in the United States and then exported to more than 125 countries. Belco has seen rapid growth and great success due largely to its commitment to understanding markets and its customers. Because of their commitment their customers have kept them informed of local demands, and have helped them gain invaluable knowledge about foreign suppliers, which has helped Belco source some products more effectively from other countries.

Born and raised in Henryville, Indiana, Sanders passed through several professions in his lifetime. Sanders first served his fried chicken in 1930 in the midst of the Great Depression at a gas station he owned in North Corbin, a small city on the edge of the Appalachian Mountains in south eastern Kentucky.[5] The dining area was named Sanders Court & Café and was successful enough for Sanders to be given the honorary title of Kentucky Colonel in 1936 by the Kentucky Governor Ruby Laffoon. The following year Sanders expanded his restaurant to 142 seats, and added a motel he purchased across the street.[6] When Sanders prepared his chicken in his original restaurant

There is an increase of demand of chicken today. Most of the restaurants in our country are using chicken for their specialty. As we all know chicken is one of the most common foods that we eat, and that is our reason of pursuing this