Pizza Hut-the Complete Package

The way that Burger King and other fast food restaurant chains do business and markets their products to consumers is due to the change in our society to where the consumer wants the biggest, fastest, and best product they can get for their money. This change in society can be attributed to a process known as McDonaldization. Although McDonaldization can be applied to many other parts of our society, this paper will focus on its impact on Burger King and Taco Bell restaurants. My belief is that the process of McDonaldization has lead our generations toward a more a much more efficient lifestyle, with much less quality. From my observations and studies of these fast food resturants, several themes have become

With the demand of fast food on the rise, two rival competitors continue the argument of “Who is better, Zaxby’s or Chick-Fil-A?” Zach McLeroy and Tony Townley founded Zaxby’s in 1990, almost forty-five years after Dan T. Cathy established his first Chick-Fil-A dwarf house in 1946. Since these entrepreneurs started their businesses, their restaurants have popped up all across the country. Both share many similarities while still keeping their individuality, and each company brings in a tremendous amount of revenue each year. Typically, Zaxby’s is open twelve hours a day, seven days a week; Chick-Fil-A’s normal work day is sixteen hours, but they are closed on Sundays. Each restaurant provides both drive through

From a study completed by Chicago-based Research International USA completed a study called “Fast Food Nation 2008. The panel consisted of 1,000 respondents of ages 16-65 who provided their inputs with an online survey which was conducted between March 13 through 2008. Which was based on results on fast food restaurants like McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s are gaining popularity even through the economic hardship and recession. Marketing strategy has become more of influence on kids and young American’s. As population grows and the demand increases of fast food restaurants are expanding their stores to capturing more consumers. Fast food chains are also willing to change their menus to continue to gain and retain repeating customers.

Yum! Brands started out as Tricon Global Restaurants in 1997 as the result of a separation from PepsiCo, and became owners of the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell brand names worldwide. Yum! Brands is now a Fortune 500 company based out of Louisville, Kentucky and the world’s largest restaurant company in the world in terms of system restaurants. With over 37,000 restaurants in over 110 countries, Yum! Brands dominates four sectors of the quick-service food industry: Mexican with the Taco Bell name, chicken with the world famous Kentucky Fried Chicken brand, pizza with the Pizza Hut chain, and seafood with their Long John Silver’s restaurants. Yum! Brands also owns A&W Restaurants, the longest running franchise chain in the

“Hi, welcome to CiCi’s!” This is the warm greeting that every CiCi’s employee will welcome every customer with when they walk through the door. This warm welcome is just one of the many things that CiCi’s does to exceed the customer service expectations that come with a buffet style restaurant. With competition lurking, and the economy pinching, great customer service has become a premium. This is why CiCi’s focuses so much on the customer’s wants and needs. The mission statement

Papa John’s is one of the leading organizations in the pizza industry. This organization has worked on making their organization stand out amongst its other competitors in the industry over the duration of time being in business. They have achieved this by making quality their main goal across all aspects of their organizations.

The fast food, or quick service restaurant industry (QSR), represents approximately 200,000 restaurants and $155 billion in sales in the U.S. alone, they are one of the largest segments of the food industry (Hoovers, 2011). This segment of the restaurant industry is “highly competitive and fragmented… number, size and strength of competitors vary by region, market and even restaurant. All of these restaurants compete based on a number of factors, including taste, quality, speed of service, price and value, name recognition, restaurant location, customer service and the ambience and condition of each restaurant” (Chipotle, 2010).

The fast food industry has been growing dramatically during the last few years. For this reason, we should try to find out what are the several factors why fast food consumption keeps growing among young people and adults. Therefore, as we have seen, the popularity of fast food is spreading rapidly among many people due to the following three main reasons: good taste, convenient time, and price. Personally, working for a fast food restaurant for a brief moment in my life, I can attest to this. Marketing also plays a big part to more people eating fast food. It’s in our culture in America to expect fast food companies to market and strategize their ways to make us, the consumers, to buy more food and consume more food so they can make more profit. Especially now with commercials and social media. The fast food industry has thrived in the modern era. It’s thriving so much, the industry is growing faster than the U.S economy, at

The Pizza Delivery Quick (PDQ) Industry service in America is considered to be a very successful market in the quick service restaurant industry. Although the industry success is very appealing, managing the day-to-day operations needs significant planning and a clear tactics to create, implement, execute and have successful results. However, the PDQ last report sales are on the level of 30%, which places the company in a serious difficult position to continue operating competitively.

If we look at the fast food industry today there is room for success. Based on RNCOS’ new US Fast Food Market Outlook 2010, fast food industry growth rate is strong. Especially, hamburger sales growth is reported at the healthy rate of 4.6% in 2008. The market is expected to grow to cross the $170 billion marks by 2010.It is believed that due to the economic meltdown, fast food industry is benefiting from people being more prices conscious. People who were enjoying nice means at fancier restaurants are now turning their choice of means to more economical ways.

Pizza hut is amongst the best fast food chains spread international. They offer wide varieties of pizza as well as include side dishes; salads, wings pasta, buffalo, breadsticks and garlic breads. Moreover pizza is founded in 1958 by two brothers Frank and Dan Carney in Wichita, Kansas and well-known as an American restaurant chain consist over 6000 pizza huts restaurants in the united states and have more 5600 branches in over 94 countries around the world. As the marketing strategy is based on customers centric, customers are being provided the best services, helpful services and create a pleasant atmosphere so as they come back again, as it is believes Pizza Hut make the perfect pizza with extra ordinary menu. Thus the business has adopted value chain activities to operate in a specific industry, by transforming inputs into outputs that value the customers. Customers’ value consists of concept abilities to differentiate products, lower cost and able to respond the demand of customers. Michael Porter was the first introduced the concept of value chain analysis in 1985 and this approach will develop competitive advantage.

Notably, with technology advances, everything has become so easy and fast such that we all want every other aspect of our lives to assume a similar concept, and fortunately, the fast food restaurants provide a suitable means of satisfying our hungry stomachs as fast and easy as possible. Surprisingly, most people have adapted a lifestyle that incorporates fast food chains as an important element. For instance, instead of making coffee at home in the morning, I buy coffee on my way to college, for lunch, I buy a sandwich or hamburger from a food truck, and in the evening after a tiring exhaustive day, I order pizza for supper from Pizza Hut. Arguably, food take-outs are part my daily routine, which serves the purpose efficiently but barely sufficiently.

Hometown Pizza has been extremely successful in the United States. As you requested I have looked into our own success and I believe it is now time to expand our business. I believe that it is time to expand our business internationally. In order, to expand our business and help us be successful internationally I have been looking into Pizza Hut and their success. To help understand Pizza Hut’s success internationally; I have chosen the following nations to help better understand their success:

Have you ever sat down at a fast food restaurant enjoying a delicious triple grand slam cheeseburger and think about all the strategies of how all of this was created? I know I have. The fast food industry is one of the most complex industries out there. With all the marketing strategies, healthier options, and completive markets this could easily but one of the most difficult industries to be a part of. To evaluate, this industry I will dive into the fields of management, the completive landscape, organization of the industry, changes in the industry, and the organizational culture around it.

When it comes to pizza, everyone has an opin ion . Some of us think th at our current pizza is just fine the way it is. Others h ave a favorite pizza joint th at makes it like no on e else. And m any pizza lovers in America agreed up until recentl y that Dom ino 's home-delivered pizza was amo ng the worst. The home-delivery market for pizza cha ins in th e United States is approximat ely $15 billion per year. Domino's, which owns th e largest home-delivery market share of any U.s . pizza chain, is find ing ways to innovate by overhauling its in-store transaction processing systems and by providing other us eful services to customers, su ch as its Pizza Tracker. And