Groupon Proposal

The third issue was the process of the servers running the food. Since they are shorthanded on servers, the scheduled servers help each other out by delivering each other’s food which in turn takes away time away from their own guests.

Customers of Groupon are defined as both suppliers and end customers. It is apparent that Groupon is very weak in retaining customers. In the case of suppliers, the low switching costs and less than impressive effect Groupon provides in increasing customer base causes suppliers to switch to competitors and leave Groupon’s management. As mentioned in the SWOT analysis, many merchants cited that employing Groupon as a local advertising tool is ineffective, expensive and risky. In the case of end customers, similarly, low switching costs and lack of incentives to continue using Groupon does not allow Groupon to tap on a larger, more loyal customer base when doing their marketing. It takes more to capture a new customer than retaining customer, as seen where costs is higher in attracting new customers and lesser value earned. With the misalignment between customer and Groupon’s needs, Groupon has to look into the management of these customers to improve their value provided for

1. With Katie being the general manager she needs to get her staff under her jurisdiction and control how things are running in the dining area. Her first solution should be having her staff trained more on the POS system and test their knowledge on the system before the system is put to use in the dining area. Her second solution could be having a meeting with her staff and discuss what they like and dislike about the POS system and what she could do to make using the POS easier and simpler for her staff. Her third solution could be enforcing rules that would lower problems in the dining area such as making sure everyone is using the POS system and if they don’t there will be consequence if they don’t. Her last solution could be her taking

My plan to eliminate such problems include the forcing shutdown of restaurant at first violations, to not allow the reopen. We as society should not have to be worrying about dining out or about seeing a violation sign stating this restaurant has had such violations.

The restaurant industry has been booming since the 90’s to now. With over 600,000 restaurants in the United States alone, and about 14.4 million employees

Blackshop is a popular casual restaurant in the area of Cambridge. It is a well run business in quite a competitive market. However, in a competitive market, proprietors of a business must do what is necessary in order to remain competitive and “maximise the number of guests” (Cerny). Blackshop must decide whether or not the Open Table system will allow them to gain a competitive advantage, and if so, what sort of operational strategy needs to be implemented for it to be successful. Issues that need to be addressed are whether Open Table systems such as the new reservation system and the table management system will, in fact, leave Blackshop with a competitive advantage.

Groupon is an internet website company focused on generating revenue by utilizing relationships with merchants to provide consumers with discounts on select items. The goal of the discounted vouchers is to drive additional consumer store traffic and generate revenue for merchants which are shared with Groupon via a predetermined contractual percentage. Groupon generates visibility and exposure with email and social networking to increase consumer spending at specific merchants. Groupon has many features from personalization of product offerings to specific demographics and target segments. In addition, a more defined value proposition allowing merchants an opportunity to showcase their own product offerings on

Children with ADHD are in need of a group that will help to improve their academic functioning. This group would be important for children with ADHD because those with ADHD have significant impairment in multiple domains of functioning. “The most problematic is academic impairments because children with ADHD will most likely be retained, placed in special education, and drop out of school

cash register (already owned by the restaurant), will increase the process capacity to 60 orders per hours, making the flow rate 40 orders per hours. Therefore, it will increase the revenue.

After discovering errors in its accounting and the failure to set aside enough reseveres for customer refunds, Groupon. Inc announced revision of its first financial results posted as a public company in April 2012, which resulted in a cut to its 2011 fourth-quarter revenue of $14.3 million. In addition, this revision has reduced its fourth quarter operating income by $30 million, net income by $22.6 million, and earnings per share by $0.04, due to an increase of operating expenses after compliance with GAAP.

would need at least three additional servers per day at a cost to the restaurant of $80 per day per

Here is how it works: A business offers a deep discount for its good/service, for example, a restaurant offered $40 value meals for the price of $20 via Groupon. The customer buys the voucher on Groupon for $20, and then later redeems it at the restaurant at the value of $40. Groupon makes money by charging a marketing fee for advertising and promoting their offers. In most cases, that fee is a percentage of the revenue generated by selling on Groupon, normally about 30-50% commission. Local business owners starting to sign up as part of their marketing strategy and spread the words to other locals. By the end of 2008, Groupon had around 300 employees and grew to more than 10,000 employees today. Groupon is a pioneer and leader in Daily deal Niche market, growing from 5 cities at end of 2008 to 150 domestic markets and over

Panera Bread was recognized by Forbes for the innovative use of what is known as consumer facing tech. Panera is using the technology to make it easier for their customers to order their meals using apps and in store kiosk tablets (Greenwald, 2015). One of the issues the company was trying to address was reducing the amount of time patrons stand in line. The thought behind the technology is a customer comes into the store and picks up one of the 8 tablets and orders his or her food and also plays and takes a seat. Not only does this make the process faster, it also increases accuracy of the orders. The company also plans to redeploy the cashiers that are freed up to better serve the customers by delivering their food to their tables. Not

This is where Groupon comes in with having the ability to save the consumer money anywhere from 50% to 90% through different services and products. Saving people money is only going to mean better things for Groupon in these economic times. We can only think that Groupon is going to fair well despite the economic situation the country is currently suffering.

In my opinion Groupon is not a ready-to-go solution to the problem of low marketing budgets of many local merchants. If Groupon is good