1. What is the Benihana concept? The Beninhana of Tokyo‚ basically a Japanese Steak House has a very unique concept in terms of the idea of watching the food being cooked live on the table in front of eyes. Benihana featured traditional Japanese cuisine experience in the urban U.S metropolis. It was the first introducer of Hibachi Cooking style in USA‚ celebrating the cooking of food so alive and entertaining. This experience comes with Teppanyaki tables which accommodated eight people and live
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has been achieved by firms practicing TQM. Try to assess what TQM Means for Benihana of Tokyo business model and what are the expected benefits of TQM implementation at it? TQM places quality responsibility on all members of the organization; this is opposed to the earlier models of ‘quality control’ where such responsibility was effectively confined to one particular organizational sector. So considering this‚ for Benihana restaurant it is not only the responsibility of the top management Rocky but
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Case study: Benihana of Tokyo Benihana of Tokyo has been very successful for the last 40 years since 1964. From a small restaurant‚ it has developed into a chain of themed restaurants. The success of Benihana has been attributed to the superb total quality management (TQM) process especially in maintaining the overall exotic ambience and the high quality food provided. All these strengths contribute to providing an unforgettable dining experience to its consumers and are reflected in their ability
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1. Prepare a detailed process flow diagram of a Benihana restaurant on a typical busy night. a) See exhibit 1- Benihana restaurant flow diagram 2. Describe the process flow diagram in detail and contrast it with that of a typical sit-down restaurant. a) See exhibit 2 – typical restaurant flow diagram b) Benihana is much like a typical restaurant in terms of the main process flow of the customers. The flow begins with hungry people entering the restaurant and ends with full/satisfied people
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medium size corporation use. Dell customized its computers to the individual need. 1) Describe and analyze Dell’s process strategy (management philosophy‚ efficiencies‚ bottlenecks‚ supply chain partners‚ etc.). What’s the advantage and disadvantage of their process model? Dell computers 2) Discuss why Dell’s competitors‚ such as IBM and HP‚ would stick to their process models. 3) As usual‚ the last part of the case study will focus on the current PC markets. Do some research in this
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What is the Benihana concept? Rocky Aoki developed the Benihana concept by modifying the normal American dining experience from a job shop operation to a communal dining batch processing operation. The processing model is designed to make the process as efficient as possible‚ reduce scrap‚ minimize wait times‚ and wait times in queues and between processes to effective parts of the process itself. A customer enters the restaurant and is placed into the queue in preparation for processing.
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a bit of fat was left which was dramatically trimmed during Live Cooking in front of diners. Benihana were authentically decorated in Japanese traditional arts. Walls‚ ceilings‚ beams‚ artifacts and decorative lights were all from Japan. This resulted in giving anexclusive ambience to the customers which in turn became unique differentiating factor for the Benihana. In a very short span of time Benihana of Tokoy has expanded in U.S Market and it has developed its own cliental which is not only exhibiting
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BENIHANA - CASE QUESTIONS / DISCUSSION _WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE BENIHANA PRODUCTION PROCESS AND THAT OF A TYPICAL RESTAURANT?_ The key difference was the way in which food was prepared. During the time period of the case Teppanyaki style dining was unknown in the United States. In this model‚ food was prepped table side by a chef instead of a kitchen in back. In this setup‚ customers were entertained with a "dinner show" and were able to see their (foreign/exotic) meal being prepared
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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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conditions of the company‚ particularly the following areas: • Operational and strategic implications of company direction • Labor utilization • Materials • Capacity • Information flow • Evaluating the following performance criteria: Quality‚ Productivity and Delivery. Following detailed analysis of data‚ process flow and inventory strategies‚ my recommendations will be focused on the following opportunities: 1. Changing strategy from current position to one which concentrates on producing
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