Case Study : Restaurant Brands International

Senior Management of PepsiCo is evaluating the potential acquisition of two companies – Carts of Colorado and California Pizza Kitchen – in order to expand the company’s restaurant business. If indeed PepsiCo decides to pursue the acquisition of one or both, they must decide how to align each of these business units in its historically decentralized management approach and how to forge relationships between the acquired business units and existing business units. In their evaluation, Senior Management is faced with the question of whether the necessary capital investment in order to purchase one or both of the businesses can be profitable for each of the acquired business units, but must

McDonald is a famous fast food chain that started as a little hot-dog stand operated by the brothers of McDonald, Richard and Maurice. Raymond Albert Kroc, which was a distributor of a milk shake maker called the Multi-Mixer, saw the potential of the McDonald who had purchased 8 of his Multi-Mixers after Kroc visited their store at San Bernardino. (----) He was convinced that this could become an exploding potential across the globe and he offered his service to the brothers who were looking for a new franchising agent. After Raymond Albert Kroc

Burger King was found in 1953 and named InstaBurger King. Its Head office is based in America, Florida and is a chain of hamburger fast food restaurant. InstaBurger King had financial difficulties in 1954, David Edgerton and James McLamore bought the company and renamed it “Burger King”.

In today's extremely competitive business environment, there are numerous fast food outlets. But when it comes to fast food, we cannot forget to mention In-N-Out Burger, Inc. It is a private and family owned company. Harry Snyder and Esther Snyder started the brand in 1948. Headquarter is located in Irvine, California. They opened their first drive-thru restaurant on Francisquito Ave. and Garvey Ave. in Baldwin Park, California (www.in-n-out.com). Three years later, in 1951, Harry and Esther opened their second restaurant, and then they started accumulating profits for reinvestment and step-by-step growing. In 1976, Harry Snyder passed away because of lung cancer. During that time, there were only 18 units opened. Then,

Kroc gave McDonald’s to people willing to allot great amount of time and effort in the McDonald’s name. His idea turned out to be affluent as many ideas were created because of this caring franchisees. The Filet-O-Fish (originally intended for Catholics during lent), Big Mac (in celebration to its fifth billion burger sold), Egg McMuffin (wanted to cater to breakfast lovers) ,Quarter Pounder, and McFlurry were all introduced by franchisees and all reaped prosperous benefits. In 1956 Kroc hired Harry Sonneborn, a former vice president of finances at ‘Tastee Freeze”. Harry quickly rose among the ranks at McDonald’s Corp. and even became the very first president and chief executive. A couple months later Sonneborn pitch the idea that McDonald’s hould own the buildings of the franchise and make franchisees pay rent. They even could evict franchisees if necessary for the first time. This revolutionized McDonald’s turning them into a semi-real estate institution forever changing urban land

Gordon Food Services, known as GFS Canada distributes fresh foods, canned and dry foods, fresh and frozen meats, seafood and poultry, special orders, equipment supplies and cleaning chemicals across all provinces of Canada. GFS Canada is one of the largest foodservice distributors in Canada.

Kroc continually clashed with the McDonalds brothers over changing the formula. He decided that he wanted full control of McDonald’s. In 1967, Kroc bought out the brothers for 2.7 million cash. This, however, did not include the original McDonald’s. Without the rights to their own name, the brother were forced to change the name of their original restaurant to The Big M. Kroc decided to open a McDonald’s one block away. By doing this he put the McDonald brothers out of business for good.

McDonald’s began as a barbeque, and the brothers strictly offered burgers, fries, and pop. Ray Kroc heard about McDonald’s one day and went to visit the restaurant. Kroc was surprised by their efficiency and the quality of the food. Kroc liked the fact that the brothers could focus on the quality of food, due to the limited menu items. Subsequently Kroc realized their success could amount to much more and shared his vision. Kroc told the McDonald brothers that McDonald’s could be a national business serving people across the country. (At this point, Kroc did not even think about being international). Dick and Mac were thrilled with what they heard, so in 1955 Kroc founded the McDonald’s Corporation and opened the first McDonald’s in Des Plaines, Illinois. By 1960 Kroc had bought exclusive rights to McDonald’s. In 1961, Kroc developed Hamburger University where new employees were trained on how to run a successful McDonald's. Kroc wanted to develop the most efficient methods to store, cook, and sell food, so he had a laboratory built at Hamburger University where students' test different ways to make McDonald's more productive. Hamburger University is still in use today in the search for ways to better McDonald’s. McDonald’s had their first sit-down restaurant in 1962, and then in 1975, McDonald’s had opened their first drive-thru restaurant in Arizona. The first drive-thru restaurant was

Castle’s Family Restaurant being the growing and successful family owned chain of restaurants carrying out in an active yet cost-effectively challenged environment is to be applauded. To continue to complete the strategical business goals of living out the (related to big business) mission and expanding the current chain as well as future chains, the business plan presented in detail will speak to current challenges being faced within the payroll processes and the recommendations in dealing with each of these needs so that the organization can meet and go beyond current and future goals.

Since Burger King has officially bought the Canada coffee shop chain Tim Hortons in August for $11 billion, its headquarters had moved to Canada (successfully saving money by avoiding American tax rates), not only the new cooperate brand has new location, but also a new name: Restaurant Brands International. In mid-December, the company officially went public in both American and Canadian markets under the name Restaurants Brands International, and categorize as quick service restaurant.

By stating straightforward, Mcdonald 's share the most in the hamburger industry. However, Burger King is much better than McDonald 's business wise, taste wise, and charity wise. Burger King was founded in 1954, and is the second largest hamburger chain in the world. Burger King serves in 79 countries and every day, more than 11 million people come to Burger King around the world.

In the 21st century, everybody has become so busy in his life. People have to work more hours to live better life. So they prefer to eat fast food in the restaurant, which consume less time rather than cooking in the house. There are so many information on the internet that people are getting addicted to fast food, which is really unhealthy for them. So our main purpose to findout that is fast food really unhealthy for the people and if yes then how many its adverse effects will be. Because of there are lots of fast food company, we have choosen McDonald for our research perposal because it is well known and old fast food company all over the world. McDonald is the one of the leading food industry, which started in 1940 by two brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino, California. In 1954, to began new restaurant outside California, Ray Kroc who was a entrepreneur and milkshake-mixer salesman, acquired the franchise of McDonald. He opened his first restaurant in Illinois, Chicago and established McDonald`s corporation. In 1961, Kroc had owned the whole McDonald business by pay 2.7 million dollars to McDonald brothers. To spread his business on the international level, Kroc opened first branch of McDonald in Richmond, British Colombia in 1967. After that McDonald started spreading its roots in other nations. In Porirua, New Zealand, first restaurant was introduced in 1976. In present era, there are more than 150 restaurants all over

The Burger King name was built on customer satisfaction and superior products. Over the years it has turned its business into a

Since the 1950's, Burger King has been offering its famous flame-broiled fast food burgers throughout the United States and, eventually, the world. Burger King, also known by the initials B.K., has evolved from a small Florida-based hamburger chain to one of the most well-known and recognizable fast food franchises on earth.

Specialty Food and Beverage company (SF), which founded in 2004 in Denmark, mainly covers foods and beverage, restaurants and hotel area. Recent years, the company had faced several problems which lead SF to an embarrassing situation. This assignment will introduce SF’s current issues, analyze the decision and then discuss the solution way which chose by SF’s high level management team.