Executive Summary: McDonald’s Corporation (Abridged)
McDonald’s development from its first drive-in restaurant in San Bernardino, California, to the famous fast food giant was based on the perfection of its operations - the recipe for its success and growth. Its operating system is characterized by focusing on uniformity for consistent quality, the formation of partner relationship with its franchises and supplier to improve operating system innovatively and last but not least the introduction of new products. With its steady drive for improvement and consistently high quality,
McDonald’s revolutionized the entire supply chain. Instead of regimenting its supplier and franchisees,
McDonald’s expected commitment from them in terms of
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All these factors are not in line with the existent nature of McDonald's premises and business model. Thus, it is recommendable to
McDonald's to extend its operating hours to 24 hours a day to cater late-night activist, especially in big cities. Additionally, McDonald's could acquire dining specialists or consultants who could help McDonald's to penetrate into the dinner market without risking its existing business model for fast food while benefiting from the profit arising from investing in established dinner specialists.
After successfully coped with the mentioned hurdles, McDonald’s did not interpret the rising call for protecting the world’s environment as a threat, but as another opportunity and soon implemented a responsible environmental policy into its evolving operations strategy. Moreover, though, McDonald's could show further support by using environmental friendly material and solar-energy heater, introducing healthier food as well as sponsoring environmental protection events. All these efforts not only can enhance McDonald's image on the one hand but also can boost its sales and reduce operating costs on the other.
All in all, the case has shown that although McDonald’s needed to adopt to certain industry changes in order to sustain its market position, it still offers its standardized core products and benefits from its wellstructured operating system, making it to the McDonald’s which everybody is familiar
• Continual improvement to the quality of its product by offering value-added initiatives such as:
Sustainability is one issue that McDonald’s faces in regard to their food. McDonald’s uses ingredients that are not sustainable such as expired meats and unknown fillers. However, McDonald’s also provides fresh fruit with their meals which are put into vacuum sealed bags. It should also be mentioned that McDonald 's Canada, McDonald 's USA and their franchisees are investing more than $6 million into a farmer technical assistance program. This initiative includes collaboration with SCAN (Sustainable Commodities Assistance Network) and TechnoServe is to provide farmers with training and assistance in order to produce coffee in a more sustainable manner. Bob Langert, Vice President of Sustainability at McDonald’s said, “We are on a mission to leverage resources and talent across our global system to challenge the status quo and make meaningful, positive changes to the environment.” “The stakeholders within McDonald’s are identifying practical, scalable
Being a responsible corporate citizen, McDonald’s firmly believes in giving back to the communities it operates in. We love to provide support and encouragement to the people who need it the most. All our restaurants contribute to their local community and every year we help set up and support numerous educational, sporting and charity programs designed to help a wide range of people.
They, in return, gave their dedication to the firm, promising high productivity and innovation. This gives the firm its competitive advantage in terms of speed of new product development and superior product quality and design, which translates into brand value.
I have chosen the company named by Mc Donald’s for my assignment topic as it is a worldwide and well-known fast food company covered in Asia and Europe countries .
On the other hand, buyers were more increasingly focusing on value and healthy foods. This condition can force McDonald and its competitor to offer product innovation that can attract the buyers and match with the buyers' requirements.
When you first come into the United States, what is the first restaurant that you be well known and noticeable, most of the answer should have McDonald’s restaurant. Even McDonald has built in America but in recently, to describe McDonald’s restaurant, it is one of the biggest fast food restaurants in the world. Today, McDonald has cover more than 100 countries, more than 30,000 restaurants and serves more than 50 million worldwide in one day. McDonald use letter M with golden color for their logo, the logo is really important because the company show the brand quality and company has developed for customers for many years ago. However, the McDonald has been successful company is not be achieved by selling or provide a good food, but the company need to have a good business strategies for expanding into the worldwide. In addition, brand image of McDonald is really strong and well known for the worldwide, that maintain internal and external of company to worker and consumers for organization trust also, the company has brand loyalty from consumers. Even the large company like McDonald, it has to face with problems and many challenges for being a leader in term of fast food line. In addition, McDonald has to face with criticisms, which are health issues and nutrition also; races with other fast food companies and every problem come from external and internal environments. McDonald try to satisfy consumer with different menu in different area but it’s not
The McDonald’s Corporation is the world 's leading fast food service retailer. In 1948, This infamous fast food company initially began as a small hamburger stand in Des Plaines, Illinois. This restaurant which would soon become a market leading force. It was founded by two brothers, Dick and Mac Donald. McDonald’s currently has over 30,000 restaurants in over 100 countries. McDonalds serves nearly 47 million customers daily. It is one of the worlds most well-known brands and is a significant leader in the highly globally competitive food industry. McDonald’s has numerous social and economic influences across the world. Thus, McDonald’s has become an inherent aspect of various cultures world wide. Its menu consists of a very diverse food group. This includes foods such as; Hamburgers, Apple Pies, Sausage Biscuits, etc. McDonalds also implements locally adapted food menus. As there are McDonalds over 119 countries, the diverse cultures’ taste buds are different from European or US consumers. Although the menu may attract an array of customers, McDonald’s consistently makes minimal changes that will maximize results. As a result of many changes in the habits of many individuals world wide, competition and other factors such as the economy and profit loss, McDonalds attempts to continue new innovations and services. These attempts are in hope of maintaining old customers, attracting new customers and ultimately increasing revenue and profit. Over the past 60 years,
As one of the most successful fast food chain in the world, throughout the development of McDonald’s, we could easily identify many successful business strategy implementations. As well as some not so good business decisions. In this paper, I will discuss some critical business strategies, which are linked to the company’s structure and external environment. This paper is organized as follows: In the first section, I will give brief introduction to the start of McDonald’s. In the second section, I will discuss the growth of the company and showcase the negative image that they have encounter over the years. The start of McDonald’s began in Manchester, New Hampshire by two brothers Dick and Mac McDonald and in the late 1920’s it migrated to
McDonald Corporation is the world’s largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurant. There are over 30,000 McDonald’s restaurants in more than 100 countries and served an average of 50 million customer daily. A McDonald restaurant is operated by either a franchisee or by the corporation itself. The very first McDonald was open in Singapore in 1979 and today there are over 120 McDonald restaurants across the island which served 1.2 million customers weekly. McDonald employs around 9,000 employees to keep their restaurant running across the island. (McDonald’s Company Profile, 2012)
While, McDonalds is the world largest fast food chain that does not come without problems, the more knowledge that people have the more power they have, McDonalds has in recent years made many adjustments to preparation of certain food items, adjustments to the size food items as well as increased nutritional value to certain food items. Many
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The McDonalds Corporation is one of the largest chains in Fast- Food market. It spans over 68 million franchises and is known for serving over 99 billion customers. It has expanded overseas and implemented over 35,000 outlets. This essay will dissect the different aspects, and business ideas that the McDonald Corporation is using. From business management to social responsibilities to the environment and consumers, we will go into detail how McDonald use these different practices to help maintain and grow this large company.
When it comes to innovation and entrepreneurship, McDonald’s has been a key innovator in the fast food industry. According to Hjalager (2010), for the whole catering sector and far beyond, McDonald’s has served as their inspiration for transforming the food organization (p.1). When McDonald’s first started their goals were to be fast, high quality food, at an affordable price (mcdonalds.com, 2016). McDonald’s has influenced other companies outside of the food industry as well. According to Hjalager (2010), McDonald’s methods of development focus on well-planned training and socialization, promotion from within, and enforcement of corporate values which has influenced companies like Disney (p.3). Along with that, Upadhyay (2015) mentions, being responsible towards the community, business, and the corporate world are the practicing values of McDonald’s that help to maintain their reputation (p.2). McDonald’s is a remarkable, innovative international company focusing on their values, company, and customers. Looking at the future for McDonald’s they should continue to follow their innovative path and build on the customer’s needs.
McDonald’s does not believe in opening its restaurant without any knowledge of the local culture and tastes.