National Doughnut Day

A competency describes anything that a business does well and differentiates them from competitors. The authors from Essentials of Strategic Management say it best as they define a competency as "the cross-functional integration and coordination of capabilities." They continue to clearly define that core competencies are the "collection of competencies that cross-divisional boundaries, is widespread with the corporation, and is something a corporation can do exceedingly well" and that distinctive

As was already discussed Panera 2.0 plans to bring a point where there is no wait time for your food to be prepared and ready to go. This is one of the main reasons that companies like Starbucks and Dunkin Doughnuts have a competitive edge against companies like Panera. Panera in the last few years has struggled to increase their revenue stream. This issue will likely be solved by expanding into the European and Asian markets. By expanding into the western markets

baked goods and coffee chain, serving more than 3 million customers per day. Dunkin' Donuts sells 52 varieties of donuts and more than a dozen coffee beverages as well as an array of bagels, breakfast sandwiches and other baked goods. A simple philosophy, "Make and serve the freshest, most delicious coffee and donuts quickly and courteously in modern, well-merchandised stores." While the company originally focused on doughnuts and other baked goods, over half of its business today is in coffee sales

Introduction Three-dimensional (3D) printing, also known as rapid prototyping (RP) and additive manufacturing (AM), is a transformational technology that is anticipated to revolutionize the healthcare industry. Current and projected healthcare applications of 3D printing include: customized prosthetics; personalized surgical implants; drug delivery, pre-operative and educational anatomical models; and tissue and organ engineering. The implications of 3D printing are expected to be considerable

no idea what is in the food from you school, half of the time you will not even know what the food is. Also, the specials that are provided for students on special food days increases their calorie intake as well such as; pizza day or wing day. On these days children have shown to intake more food because these are the days that they provide greasy foods that taste swell and the children like them so they will gravitate to them because they do not have the proper knowledge to know what this food

Children can be easily influenced by their elders and can create habit forming eating patterns based on their guardians. If a child grows up around a healthy parenting style, that child will make good choices and hopefully follow their footsteps. “An obese adolescent must therefore learn to eat and enjoy healthy foods in moderate amounts and to exercise regularly to maintain a desired weight” (AACAP, n.d, para. 6). Children’s parents should be entitled to prepare a compelling standard of living for

Burn the cake, baby. “Ask me something” her face gleamed with joy, (and some glitter she put on her face, later that day), not like her normal face on some Monday morning. “What” I responded with a flat tone. The gleamed on her face faded. “Come on, Jamie. Don't be such a doughnut on a Monday morning”. Knowing that, I won't react to her protest, she starts baked her peanut butter biscuits. I glanced at Charlie. Even though I don't care and I don't want to know what happened to her,

people, leading busy lives. These days there is an incredible interest across the country in premium coffee. The average consumer is now demanding what Dunkin’ products — served fresher and faster than ever before. Dunkin’ Donuts is well positioned for the future. Taken together, Dunkin’ Donuts’ entrepreneurial

outside of the home. This creates a larger market for coffee shops. An increased amount of people are starting their mornings off by purchasing breakfast and a cup of coffee away from home (Tuttle 2014), more people are enjoying gourmet coffee (NCA National Coffee Drinking Trends 2015 Infographic), and younger generations are demanding more coffee and coffee drinks from coffee shops (Tuttle 2014, S&D Coffee and Tea inc. 2014, Statista 2015). Coffee shops must compete with at home coffee, work place

calls a team meeting because Katherine was just diagnosed with breast cancer, the third coworker this year, so he rallies the troops to support her by “baking a dozen for the cure” and wearing even morepink tomorrow. you come home exhausted from the day and put on Monday night football to sell all of your favorite athletes, wearing what other than pink. You say to yourself “If I didn’t know better I think I have been pink washed”. The Pink Campaign is in the Epicenter of a Bad Health Paradigm When