Wilson 's Bakery : A Friendly Cafe Business

I will continue to offer the hot and cold beverages and add healthy and organic breakfast and lunch with homemade pastry at a reasonable price. I also will target all of the university students and staffs by offering them a discount with a reward card. Also I will hand out flyers to all nearby businesses in the area and advertise in the local newspaper biweekly. Moreover, I will extend my business to cater for all events such as: gaming tournaments, art show, Special events and more. If you are a loyalty customer you will receive additional discount on all catering. Since this is a newly develop area any new business open in the area will received free lunch for a day for employees and staff.

As mentioned in the case study, Panera Bread Company is known to be one of the leading bakery/café that offers freshly baked pastries and French inspired entrées across various states in the US. However in the recent years, Panera Bread faced a decrease in their usual high growth rate from 9.1% and 12.0% in the year 2000 to merely 0.2% and 0.5% of comparable sales and annualized unit volumes respectively.

Marketing are always trying to spot “cultural shifts” which might point to new products that might be wanted by customers or to increased demand. For example, the cultural shift towards greater concern about health and fitness has created opportunities (and now industries) servicing customers who wish to buy:

Sociocultural factors influence and restrict consumption ideas, needs, desires and purchase behavior. People from different countries and different regions have different life patterns and different sociocultures. These differences directly influence the products that industries want to produce because people may even have different attitudes and value toward the same product due to different sociocultural factors. With the rapid development of modern society and the continuous improvement of living standards, the degree of attention paid to health has increased. “Franchise businesses continue to pay close attention to their customers' need for convenience, new flavors and, yes,

Kudler fine foods is a store that markets fine foods but needs to bring some focus toward expanding their goods to the public. Improving their business operations will increase store efficiencies and the demand of its customers at a higher volume of purchases. The growth of this organization is significant and growth will coincide with strategic marketing that will expand Kudler Fine foods locally and internationally. Kudler’s current marketing strategy and tactics have limited the company from targeting the right group of areas of consumers to promote goods too. Examining demographics and consumer behaviors

Kudler Fine Foods is the brain child of Kathy Kudler. She envisioned a one stop gourmet food store and has grown to three locations to date. She continues to maintain direct control over large bulk purchase order items, stringent customer service policies, and hiring. This paper discusses how the organization competes in the marketplace and the strengths and weaknesses of the company according to the marketing surveys their customers completed. The following also discusses which market structure best applies to the organization and how that structure positively and negatively affects the firm, how the effectiveness of the competitive strategies in the market structure affect the

For this project, I have decided to open a coffee shop that serves regular and specialty coffee, and small pastry items that is located in a prominent neighborhood near a train station or a high foot traffic area. Coffee has become a popular beverage where it is not just needed in the mornings but throughout the day, whether they are on their way to work or just to sit and relax. I am a coffee drinker myself and it is uncommon to find a coffee place that has a warm, home feeling atmosphere. It is important to have one of these types of coffee shop in any neighborhood. My goal is to provide every customer coffee and pastry whether

The target audience is artisan bread consumers. Not everyone enjoys artisan bread; it is important to narrow down the target audience so that money isn’t wasted. Advertising is expensive and it is not possible for one single product to satisfy everyone. Selecting the target audience is a choice that the advertisers have to make. Data is taken based off of the United States population and different demographics are viewed within the average household. The numbers suggest the success that Breadsmith has with its customers. Any numbers greater than 100 are a good thing. The target audience can be determined with the help of the chart which shows the demographics of the average households who purchase non-white bread. The average age, gender, marital status, and house hold income are the demographics focused on for the target audience.

I am very pleased to have received the position proposal of the Bakery/Deli Manager in our store here that you extended. I look forward to accepting this great opportunity to work with this valued company. I believe that I am the perfect candidate for this position and I am confident that I will make a significant contribution to the success and growth of Winn Dixie over the long years to

When deciding on your target market you have to realize that you aren’t going to appeal to everyone, people have different tastes and interests. Trying to appeal to everyone is a plan that will bring failure rather than success. When figuring out who your target market will you have to consider the type of food

The Broadway Cafe emerged in 1952 in Brooklyn, NY. That is specialized in coffee, tea and full service bakery. This café thrived for 59 Years but now faces declining in business from last 5 Years as the new competitors are arriving rapidly tho it had competitive advantage from an established menu and loyal customer base. Now it seeks ambitious approach to realize its goals to bring the café back in the business. To make this vision possible some questions have come forth:

The Pillsbury Cookie Challenge is a case study written by Natalie Mauro under the supervision of Professor Allison Johnson. The case study creates an open discussion about what the marketing manager of the refrigerated baked goods category for Canada General Mills should do to revive his products. Ivan Guillen, the marketing manager, was faced with tough challenges. He was initially “…faced with the challenge of developing a strategy that would lead to improved business performance on his category” (Johnson and Mauro, p.1, 2011). To clarify, Guillen’s category is refrigerated baked goods (RBG), which means, this category is his marketing responsibility. The issue here is that “RBG was GMCC’s fourth largest category, and its performance over the past two years had been less than stellar” (Johnson and Mauro, p.1, 2011). It is important to note that GMCC stands for General Mills Canada Corporation. Pillsbury has enjoyed majority market share in the RBG category in Canada, however, recently, the market was experiencing only moderate growth. Guillen was disappointed that their goal of 5%-7% market growth was not being achieved mainly in the refrigerated cookie dough segment. To be exact, their volume growth for two years was flat and they were having difficulty reaching new households. There was a shift among consumer’s purchases, which Guillen was challenged to figure out why.

In other words, prêt a manger identifies the culture of the place and make products that suit the culture. As an example, Prêt offers its customers in the UK a wide range of sandwitches, and croisants. Where as in the US, they offer a wider range of soups and Bagels to cater for the society’s taste. This is an important step in its international marketing. Prêt operates in food industry and because food is culture-bound, adaptation is highly recommended (Lee and Cater, 2005).

In conclusion, the Broadway Café faces a strong buying power and rivalry among competitors due to the large volume of shops offering the same products and services. The threat of new substitute products and alternatives is also high for the same reasons for buyer power. The Café also faces the threat of new entrants due to the lack of insignificant entry barriers. One upside is the relatively weak supplier power. The coffee industry is huge as stated above and vendors are more than ample. With this information we can conceive our business focus. The Broadway Café is best suit for a focused differentiation strategy. We plan to achieve

In the premium foods and coffees industry, there are substitute products. According to Mary Coulter, the best way to evaluate this threat is to ask whether other industries can satisfy the customer need that this industry is satisfying (Coulter). Other beverage industries can satisfy the customer's need for a drink, and other food industries can satisfy the customer's need to eat. There are obviously good substitutes to Broadway products and the threat is high. This is why it is very important for Broadway Cafe, to innovate and differentiate. By providing free Wi-Fi in the Cafe and marketing signature food products from the famous old recipes of Grandfather, Broadway Cafe can create different image than its competitors.