Benihana Simulation Analysis Harvard Business Publishing has created a computer simulation to replicate the operations management decisions facing Benihana. Benihana is a teppanyaki style restaurant franchise that focuses on bringing a theatrical dinning experience to its patrons. The layout of the restaurant consists of two seating areas: the bar and the dining area. The goal of this simulation is to maximize utilization‚ throughput time and the nightly profit using different batching‚ bar sizing
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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 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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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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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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..................................................................................................................................................... Using Simulation-Based Training to Enhance Management Education EDUARDO SALAS JESSICA L. WILDMAN University of Central Florida RONALD F. PICCOLO Rollins College We suggest that simulation-based training (SBT) offers many advantages as an approach for management education‚ and in an effort to guide and encourage its appropriate use‚ we provide several
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EP313 Chemical Process Simulation and Design L1 - Introduction 10/1/2014 Process modeling: Concept 1 Identification: our objective is to find structure‚ R of the process. We must know the input‚ I and output‚ O parameters. I R? O 10/1/2014 Process modeling: Concept 2 Simulation: our objective is to get the value of O. We know the structure of the model‚ R and we can simulate what the output‚ O for the given input‚ I. I R O? 10/1/2014 Process modeling
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SIMULATION • WHAT is Simulation ? • WHY is Simulation required ? • HOW is Simulation applied ? • WHERE is Simulation used ? DEFINITION • Simulation is a representation of reality through the use of model or other device‚ which will react in the same manner as reality under a given set of conditions. • Simulation is the use of system model that has the designed characteristic of reality in order to produce the essence of actual operation. • According to Donald G. Malcolm‚ simulation
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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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