Cosmo Panetta, a 74 year old immigrant from Greece, living in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada with his wife and two sons. After working odd jobs for ten years, Mr. Panetta used personal savings and a loan from a family member to purchase a variety store. He always dreamed of starting a family business. Panetta eventually sold the variety store and purchased, renovated, and renamed a drive-thru restaurant. A second location was added shortly thereafter. Both sons skipped college to help Panetta run the restaurants. Sales were good and customers returned for the good food and good price. Mr. Panetta’s brainchild food item, The Cosmobob, was praised by patrons of both locations, so he began preparing for mass-market introduction and development.…
The greatest pizza delivery place, Papa Johns was created in 1985 by John Schnatter CEO, founder, and spokesman of Papa Johns. He never would've gotten to where he is today unless he never gave up and never took anything less than perfect. Now that he has lots of money, he’s donated to a lot of charities.…
Little Caesars is a pizza chain in the United States that is most well known for their advertising catch phrase, “Pizza! Pizza!” The chain was founded on September 20, 1959 in a strip mall in Garden City, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit under the name “Little Caesars Pizza Treat” by Mike and Marian Ilitch. Little Caesars is currently best known for their “Hot-n-Ready” pizzas. The chain offers a variety of pizzas with popular toppings along with crazy bread, their version of breadsticks, and cheese…
The food industry in Canada, with its highly competitive market continues to evolve and change each day, affected by its financial surroundings, mechanical progression and accordingly, the shifting nature of consumer behavior (Office of Consumer Affairs, 2013). Canadian restaurant sector can be divided into three groups, the fast food or quick service, the mid- scale casual dining, and the fine dining. Ostensibly dominating the second group of casual dining is the Boston Pizza International Inc. (also known as BP). This research project is based on the Boston Pizza perceived as a Platinum Member of Canada 's 50 Best Managed Companies. This is to appreciate how the company has placed itself in the market and the factors at play, which have contributed not only to scale the pinnacle of success but also ward off the strategies of competitors and new entrants alike. Data collected is through the information available on the company’s website and other relevant websites, journals and articles and hence the implied limitation. It begins with the evaluation of the impact of various functions of the Boston Pizza such human resources, finance, operations, and marketing. Review of the organizations design and departmentalization with respect to the geographic location, products, services, and marketing…
This article explains the expansion of all the different fast-food restaurants in Russia and delves into Papa John’s. Also, it talks about their owner in Russia, Christopher Wynne who had previously worked in the U.S.…
Founded in 1967, Pizza Pizza is an industry pioneer and Canada's number one pizza chain. With the 2007 acquisition of Pizza 73, a leader in western Canada, Pizza Pizza operates more than 600 traditional and non-traditional restaurants coast to coast.…
I had the pleasure of dining at Pizzeria Luca for the first time on February 19, 2017 for lunch. Although this small business has been operating in Albuquerque, New Mexico for 8 years, I had no idea it existed till now. Luca had a friendly, welcoming atmosphere. The lighting was a little too dark for lunch time, but had a nice quiet setting. When you walk in, you can see…
During the 1950s, two immigrant Italian brothers, Primo and Secondo are trying to face the difficulties of running a restaurant. Primo is a master chef who serves culinary delights every night. The only problem is that frequently there is no one to serve food to. The two brothers are lucky if anyone even shows up to eat, since the diners all expect standard Italian-American food and not gourmet fare. When someone does decide to dine at their restaurant, Paradise, Secondo is forced to cope with his brother's artistic temperament. When one woman orders risotto and is dismayed that it doesn't come with spaghetti, she orders it on the side; Secondo goes into the kitchen to ask Primo to prepare a side of spaghetti. Instead of preparing it Primo…
In 1959, the Ilitch Family of Michigan started the famous American carry-out restaurant pizza franchise Little Caesars. Yet critics all over the nation thought a restaurant with no tables or chairs would inevitably fail. By 1969, Little Caesars’ restaurants became an international chain. Soon after, and to most people’s surprise, it became the largest carry-out chain worldwide with 65 locations between the United States and Canada alone. The delicious pizza was and continues to be generally located in military bases, university campuses, sports’ venues, and within the entertainment industry. By 2013, “Nation’s Restaurant News (NRN), in its 40th annual Top 100 Ranking by size of USA food service chains, revised some sales numbers from 2011 and 2010” and nominated Little Caesars as the number three Pizza chain, trailing only Pizza Hut and Dominoes ("Little Caesars Rises to No. 3 Pizza Chain”). Little Caesars promotes and promises to “continue to innovate to provide more value to more people” by providing “business opportunities for entrepreneurs, new stores across the world, tasty and convenient new products and marketing” that will delight costumers and business seekers ("Our Story | Little Caesars Pizza").…
John's Incredible Pizza Company is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, the presence of mental, physical or sensory disability, sexual orientation, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or provincial law.…
Please answer the following questions applying OB concepts and theories as appropriate. While the case primarily focuses on motivational approaches, you find that other OB concepts that we have covered are applicable.…
Cosmo Panetta has always wanted to own a family business. An immigrant from Greece, he migrated to Canada 1958 with his wife and son. A former mine laborer, he decided to open up his own variety store. Because of economic challenges Canada faced, the grocery market was very competitive. After owning the tore for a couple of years, Cosmo Panetta sold it and opened up his very own drive-in restaurant. He picked a good location and served high quality products with a fair price for consumers and his business. Cosmo’s drive-in had a…
As soon as I was old enough to get a job, I started working. I got my first job in high school at a pizza joint called Rocky's in my hometown of Jeffersonville, Indiana. I started as a dishwasher and worked my way up to making pizzas. That's when I first saw my determination pay off. But I also noticed something else; I noticed there was something local pizza joints could provide that seemed to be missing from national pizza chains – a quality pizza delivered with excellent service right to the customer's door. It was then that I realized my dream was to open my own pizza restaurant.…
References: CiCi 's Pizza. (2011, November 7). Retrieved November 30, 2011, from wikipedia.com: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiCi 's_Pizza…
Lucky Luciano made the modern mafia. In 1931 he cut New York into five slices and served the rackets up in a form that still exists today. He had his fingers in every slice of the metaphoric mince meat pie that was America in the first half of the twentieth century, and then spent his remaining years ruling the underworld from afar. In the history of organized crime, there has never been a more powerful boss, and unless there is a drastic change in American law enforcement, no one person will ever be able to consolidate so much criminal power again.…