Case study: Fast-Food War in Singapore Mc Donald’s Corporation is the giant fast food restaurant chain in the world. It serves around 68 million customers every day in 119 countries. The first restaurant in Singapore was opened in 1979. Nowadays‚ 121 McDonald’s restaurants operate across the island‚ serving 1.2 million customers weekly (McDonald’s‚ 2013). Primary products which mean selling world wild include cheeseburgers‚ hamburgers‚ chicken‚ hash brown‚ coke and milkshake. To keep menu diversity
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strategy to give customers a new experience and to experiment with products that may become permanent (1). As McDonald’s expands internationally‚ the local products have been created to meet consumer demands in particular markets (1). The way that McDonalds’ implements its business level strategy is through product differentiation‚ such as the company’s response to criticism and the public’s increasing desire for healthier items. They are continuing to develop healthy versions of popular menu items
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in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States‚ the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948 they reorganized their business as a hamburger stand using production line principles. Businessman Ray Kroc joined the company as a franchise agent in 1955. He subsequently purchased the chain from the McDonald brothers and oversaw its worldwide growth. A McDonald’s restaurant is operated by either a franchisee‚ an affiliate‚ or the corporation
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attracts children is the free toys that is accompanied with the meal. Varying from Strawberry Shortcake toys all the way to Hotwheels‚ McDonald’s have been employing this tactic of giving away free toys just so that children would choose to eat at McDonalds’. A concerned parent has also taken McDonald’s to court over McDonald’s strategy of giving away free toys. Mrs Monet Parham is suing McDonald’s of “getting into her child’s mind without her permission”. She felt that her daughter‚ Maya Parham‚ is
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Strategic Profile The internationally known golden arches of McDonald’s were born in 1948 when the McDonald brothers of San Bernardino‚ California opened the first McDonald’s restaurant . The original restaurant provided the theme of hamburgers‚ fries and milkshakes that has become a staple of Americana fare. Later in 1961‚ Ray A. Kroc bought out the McDonald brothers and started to sell the restaurant franchises. Currently‚ McDonald’s has grown to over 34‚000 locations in over 118 countries
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and processed their food according to the Indians tastes‚ value system‚ lifestyle‚ language‚ and perception. Mostly in all countries everyone loves their traditional hamburgers which are prepared from beef and pork. Since Indians don’t eat pork‚ McDonalds had to rethink their strategy which was to introduce chicken‚ lamb‚ and fish to satisfy the Indian Market. When it comes to advertising they use a wide array of advertisement. In the United Kingdom they like to use
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McDonalds Case Study Introduction McDonald’s is the most famous and well-known fast-food company in the world. It was started by Dick and Mac McDonald’s in 1940. Their concept of the restaurant was based on speed and therefore called ‘Speedee Service System’ in 1948‚ which in today’s times is known as the fast food concept (Wikipedia‚ 2009). McDonald’s serves fast food to approximately 47 million people in more than 30‚000 restaurants located in 121 countries (Bized‚ 2009). The product offering has
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International Journal of Operations & Production Management A service positioning matrix David A. Collier Susan M. Meyer Article information: To cite this document: David A. Collier Susan M. Meyer‚ (1998)‚"A service positioning matrix"‚ International Journal of Operations & Production Management‚ Vol. 18 Iss 12 pp. 1223 - 1244 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01443579810236647 Downloaded on: 09 February 2015‚ At: 04:39 (PT) References: this document contains references
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Improving Production at Sutton Branch McDonalds Productivity is a very important factor in a business. It is how well a business produces it’s goods depending on how efficient the output is made. For McDonalds this is very important because as a fast food chain we need to keep costs and waste as low as possible‚ whilst still producing quality burgers and chips to meet customer demands and company goals. McDonalds in general uses all three types of production. Job production is when one-off specialised
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