Maxie's Supper Club Business Analysis

Bimbo Bakeries USA, headquartered in Horsham, Pennsylvania is the United States affiliate of Grupo Industrial Bimbo, founded in Mexico City, Mexico. Though Grupo Bimbo is now a multinational corporation, it began as a single family-owned bakery in Mexico City called “El Molino”. Lorenzo Servitje Sendra worked with his father in the family bakery throughout his childhood, but when his father died in 1936 he had to take over. Lorenzo was educated and ambitious, and together with three of his family members devised a plan to increase the scope of their business. They bought five delivery vans to deliver their breads, wrapped in plastic to preserve freshness, to various small stores daily. Customers loved their product and within a few years they had increased production and were expanding outside of Mexico City.

How may I serve you? This is the greeting everyone gets when they dine at a Chick-fil-A restaurant. The company's relentless pursuit to build relationships with its customers goes beyond chicken sales. As a leader or manager, scanning your organizations external environment for opportunities and threats will assist in keeping employees motivated and the customers loyal during turbulent times. This paper will evaluate the external environment of Chick-fil-A, determining the extent to which opportunities exceed threats, or threats exceed opportunities.

Chick-fil-a first opened its doors in 1946 in the state of Georgia. Founded by the owner Pruett Cathy, he later, in the early 1960s, incorporated Chick-fil-a. Since then, chick-fil-a has grown massively all over the United States making them the largest quick-service chicken restaurant in the United States. Chick-fil-A began as a restaurant named the Dwarf House but has grown to over 1,700 locations.

Today, Chick-fil-A is a family owned business and has over 1900 branches all over the United States and compose a net worth of $7 billion. According to Speigiel (2014), “In 2013, Chick-fil-A made over $5 billion in revenue, up from 4.6 billion in 2012.” In 2014, sales for the company had reached over $6 billion, creating a fast-food restaurant that is completely different amongst its competitors. In fact, its closest competitor is the Yum Brands, Inc the owner of KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut. An article in Business Insider entitled, “ The 15 Fastest-Growing Retailers in America” had the company ranked at number 10 with a 13 percent sales growth since 2011 (2012). The rapid success of the popular southern restaurant has led to company opening its first store in New York City. According to Kuafman (2015), the restaurant will be located at New York University at 1000 Sixth Avenue in Manhattan’s Herald Square. The new

Cracker Barrel Restaurant is a country-based food chain. The restaurant offers a variety of food. Their mainly dishes are home-style breakfast, lunch, dinner as well as desserts. For forty-eight years, Cracker Barrel has been contributing people who drive on the freeways in the United States a quick breakfast stop. With that being said most of the Cracker Barrel Restaurants are located along the highways, attracting travelers and tourist (CrackerBarrel.com). Therefore, not only does the restaurant serve food but it also, brings a vintage gift shops to people dinning.

After carefully analysing the mission statement and the about us page of Maxie's Supper Club and Oyster Bar, I have concluded

From a strategic perspective, I believe that Whole Foods is executing at an extremely high level. Currently, Whole Foods is the market leader in its niche (organic food). Whole Foods has an international presence while also boasting some of the largest shop sizes compared that of its rivals. This allows for products from all over the world to be stored on their shelves while also allowing for more exotic displays to show off their products. Profits have “grown at a compound average rate of 30.4 percent” and it also has one of the strongest social media presences all of retailers in the world.

Sam’s Club is a very well-known business around the country. They are located in 47 different US states. Sam’s Club currently has 660 members and 100,000 employees. Sam’s Club was founded in 1983 by Sam Walton in Midwest City, Oklahoma. The new CEO is John Furmer on February 1st, 2017. Sam’s Club has given $.4 billion to people in need who don’t have enough money to support themselves. They are owned by Walmart and affiliates with them. In 2016 alone, they had $486 billion in revenue. Over the past 10 years their sales trends have ranged from 5% - 3.9% in sales growth. The only year that their sales growth went down drastically was in 2016 when they went down by -3.2%. They have many different competitions but one major competitor is Costco

BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse specializes in house-made craft beer alongside elevated versions of classic American bar food. The atmosphere is the perfect blend of brewery and sports bar, a match made in heaven. BJ's is also heavily involved in the communities it serves, and constantly partners with local non-profits to run benefit nights where a portion of the proceeds go to help a charitable cause.

Big Sky Restaurant is touted by locals as the best in the Stoughton area for charm, delicious food, impressive service and reasonable prices. Not only does the food taste great, the expert presentations are a feast for the eyes as well. Try the crab cakes, for example. The menu is diverse with options such as pork schnitzel, salmon, lobster crab bisque, seafood on angel hair pasta, tenderloin Oscar and grilled shrimp with polenta.

The history of fast food strongly correlates with the beginning of mass production of cars. Since the late 1940’s fast food was a new and exciting industry with a huge market, just waiting to be served and catered to in a timely manner. Throughout the years, fast food companies such as In-N-Out have tried to make their way to the top of the food chain by providing quality meals while maintaining a speedy service. In this paper, I would like to discuss some of the aspects that have made In-N-Out so successful. The overview and history of the company will shed some light on how In-N-Out got started and what quality means to them.

Darden Restaurants owns a number of specialty brands that are located throughout the United States and Canada. These include: the Olive Garden, Red Lobster, LongHorn Steakhouse, the Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52, Eddie V's Prime Seafood and Wildfish Seafood Grille. The company has 2 thousand locations and they employ 135 thousand people. Their primary markets are middle class to affluent families. ("Our Company," 2012)

Maggie’s Place is an organization that provides houses of hospitality and support to help pregnant and parenting women. Maggie’s Place was founded in 2000 in Phoenix, Arizona and was created to honor the spirit of the Catholic Worker tradition of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin as a sign of their faith. The website informs people of what Maggie’s Place provides, how long the guests that seek help can stay for, and who is eligible to stay. The goal of Maggie’s Place is helping these women reach their goals by providing them with the necessaries they need to survive and connecting them with resources such as education programs, and health insurance. Pathos is mostly used seeing as this organization is providing these woman with support, supplies,

The Rock’s Edge Café, located in Western Washington University’s Wade-King Recreation Center, is campus’s premier healthy dining location. Floor-to-ceiling windows allows natural light, creating a soft ambiance. Views of the weight room, rock wall, cardio room, and outdoor turf field combined with the sounds of background conversations and the smoothies and coffee being made sets the perfect scene for living healthily. The Rock’s Edge Café functions well as a place for students to sit and socialize or study, but its main purpose it to provide healthy dining options for students. The café has a wide variety of drinks, including coffee, tea, “green juices,” and Freshëns smoothies, as well as snacks, such as nuts, trail mix, salads, fruit, and

The Bayou Bar & Grill is a laid-back sports bar that shows the latest games and provides food and drink. The staff is mainly female to cater to the largely male audience. The Bayou Bar & Grill has a full bar and multiple televisions all around the venue. It also has an extensive food menu full of tasty and satisfying dishes. There are even options for vegetarians to try out.