Street in New York City by 25-year-old Hiroaki "Rocky" Aoki. Aoki‚ a wrestler who had qualified for but did not attend the 1960 Summer Olympics started the restaurant with $10‚000 earned from driving an ice cream truck in Harlem. The first restaurant‚ Benihana of Tokyo‚ was named for the red Safflower that was the name for the coffee shop owned by his parents in Tokyo. Aoki’s concept was for the meals to be theatrically prepared by a knife-wielding‚ joke-telling chef at a teppanyaki table surrounded by
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1964 as Benihana of Tokyo Employees: 1‚763 Sales: $81.6 million (fiscal year ending March 31‚ 1996) Stock Exchanges: NASDAQ SICs: 5810 Retail Eating & Drinking Places Company Perspectives: Helping our guests feel welcome is as important as our cooking. And it is just as great a skill. Ever striving for excellence in hospitality‚ it is truly our restaurant family who has built Benihana’s success. Company History: Benihana‚ Inc. owns and licenses restaurants in the Benihana and Benihana
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Benihana of tokyo wac analysis: The case benihana of Tokyo was simply about how to expand the business. Benihana is a service restaurant chain providing only minimal menu. The issue identified was they were unable to make a decision that how would they expand their business. They have some options waiting but its hard to make a strategy. It is a very difficult to expand a service nature of business because in service type of business everyone thinks he is a expert due to his practical observation
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Benihana of Tokyo Benihana is a steakhouse with food cooked in front of the customers by Japanese chefs and the decorated in an authentic Japanese setting. Operation advantages: Benihana has several operation advantages: firstly‚ by eliminating the need for a conventional kitchen with hibachi table arrangement‚ the restaurant keep labor cost low while providing attentive service. Secondly‚ the dining space was increased. Thirdly‚ by reducing the menu to three simple Middle American entrees‚ the
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BUSINESS SCHOOL Cover Sheet for Individual Assignment: Case Study of Benihana of Tokyo Your assignment cannot be returned to you unless you clearly print your name and address in the box below. William Tan Wei Leng Block 308 Canberra Road #13-99 Singapore 750308 Name: William Tan Wei Leng Student ID: 1656521 Subject name: Operations Service Management Lecturer name: Max Zornada Due date: 10 July 2015 KEEP A COPY Please be sure to make a copy of your work before you submit it. On rare occasions
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1. Where do you see Benihana has the most advantage? And what allows it to achieve such advantages? Percentages Dollars/yr. Typical Benihana restaurant $1‚300‚000 $910‚000 $390‚000 $273‚000 $78‚000 $949‚000 $130‚000 $130‚000 $65‚000 $162‚500* $461‚500 $30‚000 $431‚500 $215‚750 $215‚750 $245‚750 1.2 years Sales and costs (percentages are relative to gross sales‚ unless stated otherwise) Gross sales Food sales Beverage sales Food cost‚ % of food sales Beverage cost‚ % of beverage sales Gross profit
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Case Study Component: Benihana of Tokyo 1. What are the differences between the Benihana production process and that of a typical restaurant? Benihana focuses on creating a dining experience that is not just about the food and service as most other restaurants do. Benihana emphasizes customer entertainment whereas when you eat at a typical restaurant you and your family‚ friend‚ or partner have to create your own entertainment. By using the hibachi table where chefs make the food right in front
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EXPERIMENT 2: BATCH DISTILLATION AT CONSTANT REFLUX OBJECTIVE: To operate a batch distillation unit at constant reflux. To examine the change in top and bottom composition over time in a batch distillation. PROCEDURES: 1. Perform the general start-up procedures (Section 4). Refer appendix 1. 2. Record initial volume and refractive index of the liquid mixture in the reboiler. 3. Set the heater power to 1.5kW. 4. Set reflux timer to 10 second for set 1 and 30 second for set 2. ( Note: Set 1:
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Installing Server Roles with a Batch File Jason R Stacy ITT Technical Institute Email and Web Services NT2670 Mr. Abanilla September 24‚ 2014 Using a batch file: When you use this mode‚ it displays all the roles and features that the server can support. All the entries have a box next to them. A check mark in this box shows that you installed the role or feature on the system. When you supply the name of an XML file‚ this mode also places the information in
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Batch Production Batch Production is a way of creating items in bulk. In batch production‚ general-purpose equipment and methods are commonly used to produce small quantities of items that will be made and sold for a limited time only. Usually a similar design and process will be used to make a new product‚ cars are a good example of this. Often after car has been made another version will be created that has got new features. In batch production specialized tools or items for construction purposes
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