Soul Food Express By Kim And Ernest Westbrooke

PepsiCo faces two very different companies in its most recent potential acquisition. Carts of Colorado is a designer, manufacturer, and merchandiser of mobile food carts – not directly in the food services industry, they do cater to a large corporate customer base along with PepsiCo that includes Coca-Cola, Burger King, Dunkin Donuts, and Mrs. Fields. Alternatively, California Pizza Kitchen is a casual dining restaurant with 25 locations in eight states, typically located in affluent areas.

This report examines strategic alternatives that would help owners of Livoria Sandwiches Inc. gain competitive advantage in a growing market, achieve its profitability target and maintain its strong reputation of having a high quality and unique product in the industry. This report provides an analysis of the company’s current situation, identify strategic issues and analyze strategic alternatives. These also provide recommendations as to courses of actions the brothers should adopt to reach their goal, and proposed implementation plan.

The company is geographically located in most major united states locations. It employs a hierarchal organizational design. One of the contributing factors to its success is the company’s success in providing a dining experience for its customers that excel in choices, price, customer service, and serving size. The company is known world-wide for its delicious cheesecakes with the key factor being the variety.

Chick-fil-A is one of the most successful fast food restaurant establishments in the country. With over 1,300 locations in 37 states in the Southern U.S., they continue to grow the brand by expanding to new territories (Chick-fil-A Company, 2009, para 1). In 2008 Chick-fil-A has seen a 12.17 percent sales increase over the chain’s 2007 performance and a same store sale increase of 4.59 percent (Chick-fil-A Company, 2009, para1). Throughout the years Chick-fil-A has come up with many innovative ideas to continue expanding business and satisfying their loyal customers. One of the ideas was to offer different types of restaurant set-ups to cater to customer’s needs. The different restaurant set-ups include mall/in

As a student enters the gym doors of Smith-Cotton they can see various trophies from our athletic teams, along with our JROTC National Championship banners that hang up from the walls. One can see by the quality of our gym that our sports are a main part of our school, but as one wonders on into the hallways of our school, they can see how dull they are. By the plainness of the walls, there seems to be no life, in the JROTC hallway you see the trophy cabinet full of multiple national trophies and as you venture on you get to see images of what these teams do, along with the bulletin board that shows newspaper articles of the success of the program. But as you continue to walk toward the other side of the classroom, one can only see some bulletin boards that do not have many things on them except for some advertising. Just by observing this, a new student can see that our school has a great deal to do with sports, but what they cannot see is how well this school performs academically. As we walk down the halls you rarely see a student’s work displayed. So one can assume what James Coleman thinks to be correct, that “altogether, the trophy case would suggest to the innocent visitor that he was entering an athletic club, not an educational institution." This is a dilemma among many schools that is sometime not dealt with adequately.

The company is geographically located in most major united states locations. It employs a hierarchal organizational design. One of the contributing factors to its success is the company’s success in providing a dining experience for its customers that excel in choices, price, customer service, and serving size. The company is known world-wide for its delicious cheesecakes with the key factor being the variety.

Begin your lunch date with a warm bowl of spinach dip made with artichoke hearts and creamy parmesan cheese or the Thai Spring rolls. Savor the endless garden bar with endless dressing and topping combinations or enjoy the Smoky Mountain chicken entrée smothered in barbecue sauce and Swiss cheese. For dinner, dip into the Italian five cheese skillet appetizer with tomato basil sauce. Cut into a perfectly cooked steak with a side of white cheddar roasted brussel sprouts or the grilled salmon with a fresh baked potato. End your meal with a decedent slice

I recently read an excerpt from an article by Brett Martin, called “Good Food Everywhere”. It is a short, yet funny piece written about Martin’s journey finding amazing food in different and random places. Making a statement, he ends his article with, “How to square the seemingly unstoppable upward trajectory of our eating lives with the supposed downward trajectory of nearly everything else?” (Martin 263). This quote here is the most powerful part of the whole entire piece, as it is stating a much bigger idea than simply eating good food at places throughout a trip. I’m sure the meaning behind this question can be interpreted differently amongst others, but overall, I’m sure we can all get a gist of the big picture. Martin is clearly asking how can we manage to reconcile the impossible, yet positive course of good food in our lives, with the negative path of everything else. For “everything else”, that might be where some opinions differ.

The movie Soul Food is a comedy/drama made in 1997 by George Tillman Jr. The movie is centered around a Chicagoan family and their struggles to handle life situations while maintaining the concept of family. Soul Food not only represents the delicious food that has nourished the black body for generations; the movie also represents the concept of preserving family tradition. This film covers the basis of the Great Migration, when people from the south migrated to the north and Midwest in search of work and freedom from southern oppression. George Tillman Jr. does a good job at creating well rounded characters and depicting the positives and the negatives of each character’s role in the movie. Soul Food is a representation of the numerous benefits and the disadvantages of being black in America.

In this paper I will compare my favorite restaurant, Olive Garden, to its most direct competition which in this case is Milestones Bar and Grill. These two restaurants are in competition because they target the same market and are located within one block of each other. Each restaurant is owned by one of top restaurant companies in North America. Olive Garden is owned by Darden Restaurants which also owns Red Lobster, Smokey Bones, Bahama Breeze, Longhorn Steakhouse, and Seasons 52. Cara Operations Ltd. is the owner of the Milestones chain as well as Montana's, Swiss Chalet, Coza, Kelsey's, and several others. Although there are several other restaurants within the same area as the two I have chosen, I

Texas Roadhouse is known for their outstanding made-from-scratch foods such as their steak, sides, ribs and their fresh bread. This restaurant specializes in steak house style, but don't let the name fool you. If you're not a so much of a “meat lover” their wide selection of food provides some pastas and sea foods for you. If you are allergic to anything, they won't hesitate to provide you with a safe meal that you would enjoy. For example; if you have a gluten allergy they will give you a selection of foods that does not have gluten in them and you could choose from a variety of foods safe for your health. Their menu is large and consists of a lot of options such as appetizers, soups or salads, your entree and dessert. Their menu gives a selection of “lighter foods” for those who are watching what they eat and provides a calories count on the bottom of each food item. Their food is always warm when arriving to our table and never under or overcooked. They always check to make sure your food is properly cooked and asked for criticism. The food is always cooked to perfection and never fails to impress its

The Capitol Grill serves up classic American eats for breakfast and lunch. Executive chef Tony DeChiara has created a menu filled with favorites from the grill, along with fresh bakery items that are prepared each day. Stop in for breakfast and enjoy croissants, Danishes, strudels, cinnamon rolls and muffins. Visit the parfait bar and create your own perfect combinations of house-made granola, honey, yogurt and fresh fruit. There's also an omelette bar, eggs and biscuits and gravy.

Another way Chipotle strives to achieve this goal is by taking orders online or through a smartphone app without slowing down service within the restaurant.

operates 25 years’ history. Compared to Chuck E Cheese, Inc. and California Pizza Kitchen, Inc.,

Social media plays a very large part in todays society. It influences most aspects of our lives. Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest are all forms of social media that impact people’s daily lives. As we all live busy lives eating healthy has become extremely important. A healthy nutritious diet is a part of most peoples lives. Social media allows people to have access to the latest health food trends, recipes, blogs and information about cafes that offer these types of healthy foods. Dining out is also very popular in todays society. Healthy cafes are frequently seen on social media through people tagging themselves via Facebook and Instagram. Social media allows people to follow their favourite cafes which then gives them the opportunity to get a hold of the different food and recipes that that specific café offers. Savvy business owners use video and photography to improve their business and encourage healthy eating. Café dining has become extremely popular with the general public. Trendy hip organic cafes are very much the rave with brunch becoming the to go meal, smashed avocado has become very popular through this. The rise in this popularity can be linked to social media. People via Instagram, Facebook and Twitter have shared photos of café meals which has made a big impact on the cafes influence on our lives. I personally have accounts on many different social media sites that promote and share