Understanding Strategic Management UB: Understanding Strategic Management A Strategic Analysis of Pizza Express. Industries: Restaurant/Retail FAO: The Board of Directors. Word Count: 2495 (not including Tables or Executive Summary) Report prepared by UB: Module Leader: 1 Understanding Strategic Management UB: Executive Summary Pizza Express is a key player in the Restaurant Industry. It is one of the biggest chains in the casual dining sector. Alongside this, Pizza Express boasts an in‐restaurant takeaway service and offers their signature pizzas in supermarkets as a fresh prepared pizza ready to cook at home. All three of the markets which …show more content…
Company Summary Company Name: Pizza Express (Restaurants) Limited Industry: Restaurant – Casual Dining Sector Parent Company: The Gondola Group Type of Business: Private Equity Business Owner: Cinven Number of Restaurants: 413 Number of Employees: 9,300 Average Spend per Head: £14.00 1.1 Background Pizza Express (PE), a market leader in the casual dining sector is owned and operated by The Gondola Group, who currently own several brands of restaurant chains including ASK, Zivvi, BYRON and Kettner’s. Gondola Group formulates strategies across the board for all their brands with Chief Executive Harvey Smyth responsible for operational activities. PE is the largest of the brands being an Italian themed restaurant chain focusing mainly on pizzas and pasta. Their services have also expanded, with a range of retail pizzas available to buy in supermarkets to cook at home, or the ability to use the restaurant as a takeaway facility where customers can collect their favourite pizzas to eat in their own surroundings. 1.2 Current Market Position Restaurant Market Value: £26.18 billion. (Keynote, 2012) increased 5.7%. Number of Meals served: 3.854 billion (Keynote, 2012). Average spend per Head: £11.95 (Keynote, 2012). 1.3 Current Financials Figure 1: Current Financials of PE. (FAME,
The three top pizza chains in America are Pizza Hut, Domino’s and Papa John’s. The pizza business is very competitive. We are going to discuss the third-largest pizza company, which happens to be Papa John’s. John Schnatter is the CEO of Papa John’s, he founded the company in 1985 and he own 30 percent of the company’s assets. Papa John’s is different from the other pizza places because they pride themselves in using only fresh ingredients, by them using fresh ingredients this gives their pizza the distinguished taste that the consumers crave. The fresh ingredients are delivered two times a week is a part of the prideful quality center that Papa John’s has put in place to guarantee fresh quality ingredients. Another unique difference in Papa
For the manufacturing process Papa Johns Pizza Delivery was chosen. This store is very well placed in the small town that it operates in. Located on a very busy street in Moses Lake it is centrally located and the whole town can be navigated within an easy ten minutes of the store. This allows the workers within the store to be very detail oriented. Assembling the pizza, cooking it and making sure there are no big bubbles in the dough when cooking is easily done. This makes it very pleasing to the eye and customers are less likely to complain. Drivers can take the completed pizza and deliver it within minutes of coming out of the oven. Hot fresh pizza
Papa John’s has a verity personal pizzas fresh out of the oven along with fresh bread sticks and dipping sauces.
Mario’s Pizzeria, a family-owned establishment is known for authentic taste, fresh ingredients, brick oven baked pizza, is an example of common modern phenomena. The pizzeria has been in business since 1950 and brings with it a reputation in its home in Palm Springs, California, for its quality and uniqueness. Mario wishes to pass the business down through his family, however a new set of streamlined processes are required to remain competitive while still providing that family owned ambience that is one of their hallmarks. Customers are dissatisfied with the wait time and it necessary to evaluate the customer population, customer que wait times, the servicing system, and develop a priority rule for
operates 25 years’ history. Compared to Chuck E Cheese, Inc. and California Pizza Kitchen, Inc.,
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.
Weekends are very exciting for all working individuals. The reason behind this is that they can go out watch a movie, have a meal outside, prepare for some late night parties and of course have all type fast food that are preferred. When talked about fast food, one of the most economical as well as delicious fast food loved by almost all the individuals is pizza. This Italian food which is baked in an oven in just one crust for a couple of minutes having all customer friendly ingredients such as peperoni, all types of sauces, baby corns and chicken. Not only are these, but also some of the well-known ingredients that pizza may contain are chicken, sweet corn, mushrooms, cheese and many more. The benefits that one can look for and needs from any restaurant
The market studies consisting of the forecast of the estimated demand show that the pizza
The Papa John’s case provides a classic example of a company that entered a highly saturated and mature market and was able to enjoy immense growth and success due to its creative product differentiation strategy. The company’s motto has been consistent from the day the first restaurant was opened: Superior ingredients and a superior product from its competitors. John Schnatter took the basic concept of product differentiation and positioning to new heights as he created a strong global brand, which had an unprecedented track record of success and customer loyalty over its competitor’s pizza products.
Over the past several years, pizza chains have begun to extend their menus to other items like chicken, salads, pizza dough, and cheesy bread stick. Not many of them are still kept on the menu though. It could be described as once a chain launches a new menu, the other competitors would imitate the new item or launch a
In today’s world in the busy world every people does not have the time to cook in the daily busy life and while the work is finished or some of the students while going to the School and after the classes is finished they go to the restaurant’s to have their dinner instead of cooking and some of the people in the fast going life, they don’t have time of going to the restaurant’s they instead make an order a pizza and which will be deliver at their work place.
The overall attitude towards growth for Domino’s Pizza is to grow and become the largest, fastest, and overall best pizza delivery company in the world. To do this, they operate themselves by implementing and executing an array of growth strategies.
Domino’s Pizza is the No. 1 Pizza Delivery Company in the world and the undisputed pizza delivery expert. The Company has a unique business and operation model and is a pioneer in the fast food industry. Since 1960, Domino’s Pizza has successfully expanded from 3 outlets in the United State to 9,350 stores operating in seventy countries. Domino’s operation in Malaysia and overseas uses the franchise model. The parent company, Domino’s Pizza LLC is head quartered in Michigan, United State of America. It maintains overall control on the sourcing and supplying of raw materials to the master franchises and enforces quality of the service and products sold. Founded in 1960, Domino's Pizza is the recognized world leader in pizza
Pizza hut also send the leaflet or discount voucher to customers’ house. IT helps to attract
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