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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customers something different from any other restaurant in the country. He was in New York‚ the city of Broadway shows. Theatre is what people come here for and to get theatrical experience with their lunch or dinner‚ what better one would ask for? Benihana also wanted to serve their food in authentic Japanese style in the environment where customer would feel that they are really in Japan and having Japanese dish. The customer base was of the
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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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USING QUEUING ANALYSIS AND COMPUTER SIMULATION MODELING TO REDUCE WAITING TIME IN THE HOSPITAL ADMITTING DEPARTMENT Igor Georgievskiy‚ Zhanna Georgievskaya‚ William Pinney (Alcorn State University) Donald McWilliams (Texas Wesleyan University) ABSTRACT The Admitting Department is one of the most highly congested hospital services‚ and faces a great deal of pressure‚ compared with other components of the health care system. Delays in the AD system may result in difficulties of scheduling services
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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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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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CHALLENGE 1 How many additional customers can Benihana service with batching? First of all‚ it was obvious from the first glance that batching strategy was the right one‚ as it was profitable. On the contrary‚ the non-batching strategy it was not profitable and there was a loss of $ 201.58. This is due to the fact that batching allows the restaurant to use fewer chefs which lowers the fixed costs maximizing the profit. We can also notice that in the cases of batching versus the cases of non
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restaurant which is an existing restaurant in Kato Paphos. Benihana is located near the sea‚ in the heart of one of the most popular tourist places for summer holidays in Paphos‚ Cyprus. It was set up in 2006 and had followed a successful track for almost seven years. However after the founder left the country‚ the restaurant remained closed until recently pending the completion of the obtainment of the estate from the ex owner. Benihana is an existing medium-sized restaurant with a fully equipped
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Module B: International operations management Case: Benihana of Tokyo Case Preparation: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. What are the differences between the Benihana production process and that of a typical restaurant? Examine the production system in detail. (Try and draw a simple process diagram). What are the major design choices which generate operating efficiencies? What is the process flow at Benihana? How many customers can the restaurant process and what is this as cash flow? What role does the
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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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