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The age old debate: is Chipotle or Qdoba the better fast food Mexican restaurant? Of course, one could choose from many pros and cons for either side, but my goal was to dig down into the debate. Which restaurant has a better atmosphere? Which one has better ingredients? Are there more options at one than another? Which restaurant gives it’s customer more bang for their buck? Although I may be biased because I work at Qdoba, I’ve thoroughly researched each restaurant and come to a conclusion. Each restaurant brings many different options to the table, but in the end Qdoba is far superior to Chipotle in many ways.

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

You need to set ambitious targets that will motivate and inspire your employees; however it is important to get the balance correct otherwise you risk disheartening them. Companies should refer back to past performance data for recent years to get a sense of what kind of performance boosts you 've seen before – doing this will help give a

In-N-Out starting pays are $10.50 regardless of California’s minimum wage of $9 an hour. Most restaurants in California grumble at having to give their employees $9 a hour, California’ minimum wage ($1.75 more than federal minimum wage) while In-N-Out goes over the top by adding $1.50 more than the state’s minimum wage. Using the average amount of hours the typical American works this adds up to giving each employ seventy dollars more than California’s minimum wage would a week. Workers if are eligible receive complementary medical, dental, and vision insurance. To put a nice red bow on top of the amazing benefits that can be attained by working at establishment workers receive a free meal on work days, fifteen percent discount at company restaurants, assistance in a 401k retirement plan, company sponsored events and two paid vacation weeks after one year of service. They even have their own nonprofit organization, called “The In-N-Out Child Abuse Foundation” which has raised over seventeen million dollars in the past twelve years. Even with all these employee benefits and contributions to society In-N-Out still made an estimated six hundred twenty-five million dollars in 2012! All of these facts and statistics should surely prove to you that you don’t have to be a greedy corporation to be prosperous

In fast-food corporate America In-N-Out Burger has always remained family-owned. It had no stockholders to respond to and was able to invest in maintaining high standards of quality. Unlike its competitors the chain, with 258 stores presently, is able to retain its constant growth in sales, even in times of recession.

The current system is such that each franchise is equipped with a manager who works under area supervision and is the only full time salaried employee, an assistant manager, a few night managers and roughly 18-20 other non-managerial employees all of whom work part-time with a minimum wage pay. Within this set the managers are

Within today’s modern society we like to have everything when we want and have it at any given time. Growing with that trend, modern fast food places like McDonald’s and In-N-Out Burger have giving their consumers that very thing. Even though In and out and McDonald’s have been around for years, both vary their menus and the way they appeal to their consumers with the change of time. On the west coast, In-N-Out is favored more than it is on the east coast. While McDonald’s is a worldwide company, with restaurants open in France, China, Iraq, and also America. Who is the better franchise; it is time to find out.

Steven Shaer puts into writing some of the things that managers of all forms of organizations should consider when counselling their underperforming employees. First, the managers should make it clear to the underperforming employees that they are not meeting the minimum standards set for them in their respective job specifications (Shaer 25). This entails sufficiently dealing with the issues of employee rationalization and denial. The manager should explain to the employees the significance of doing a quality job, remind them of the employment contract they signed, and make it clear to them that they will definitely lose their jobs suppose they do not meet the minimum thresholds set for them at the

When goals are established there are a set of rules put in place to meet a certain criteria. Depending on the severity of the goal, one could establish policies that go against the system. In the novel “The Goal” by Eliyahu Goldratt, Alex does just that. Alex the main character of the novel is put in between a rock and a hard place. There are only two ways out, which are to either quit or to fix the problems in a span of 6 months. There are numerous ways and processes that are implemented for the factory to get out of the slump, but being that this is from a managers perspective I have gained knowledge on three major ideas that will definitely impact my managerial thinking for the rest of my life. Those are Mentorship, Fact Finding, and Policies.

When problems like this arise the only possible solution may be to “make explicit to the employees” that their behavior needs to be corrected and outlining the corrective actions if they fail to do so. Nonetheless, situations that are irresolvable are seldom within the workplace if both managers and employees are able to discover them before they get to this point.

According to the article “Falling Short” there are 10 top strategies to retain employee’s. 1) Leadership skills developed from top down, 2) Shift motivation rewards to match the task, 3) Provide more creative and challenging work, 4) Allow flex time, sabbaticals and extended time off, 5) Invest in training and growth for all employees, 6) Recognize employee performance goals rather than tenure, 7) Provide a career path, 8) Offer full-time employees contracts, 9) Provide real-time performance evaluations, 10) Have fun. (Cran, 2012)

Compare, Contrast, and Evaluate performance. Is performance going up, down, or remaining the same? Set SMART goals and make sure to

know what your EMPLOYEES are doing; or YOU do not CARE. You have created expectations

Good presentation, meal variety, and several salad choices, are all part of the evaluation a fast food chain. In today’s era one is searching for a fast and easy way to eat healthy, and with fast food chains like Wendy’s and McDonalds, is making the healthier choices much easier. Most

The organisation I have chosen to examine from an operations management and decision making standpoint is McDonald’s, a worldwide chain of fast food restaurants, which are run either by a franchise, an affiliate or by the corporation itself. There are over 31,000 branches of McDonald’s worldwide1. It is estimated these restaurants serve a collective 47 million customers daily2. The restaurants mainly sell customers traditional fast food fare such as burgers, cheeseburgers, French fries, fizzy drinks and milkshakes, in addition to breakfast, dessert items and (in response to growing health concerns in the consumer marketplace) healthier items such as salads and