Strategic Hospitality Management A case analysis of Dunkin’ Donuts with a focus on tools available for strategic planning. April 2013 Abstract The following essay is based on the Quick Service Restaurants brand (QSR)- Dunkin’ Donuts. The company has been studied and a case study regarding the growth of the company from 1950 till today has been studied. Growth strategies of the company have been used to understand how they reached the position of America’s largest QSR. The Legal‚ Moral and
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Pricing Decisions are decisions faced by top management and marketing managers. How much to charge for a product or service depends on a multitude of factors such as competition‚ cost‚ advertising‚ and sales promotion. Economic theory suggests that the best price for a product or service is the one that maximizes the difference between total revenue and total costs. However‚ in reality‚ the price charged is usually some form of cost-plus‚ which is later adjusted for market conditions and competition
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1. Pricing decisions Factors to consider when setting prices All profit organizations and many non profit organizations must set prices on their products or services. Simply defined‚ price is the amount of money charged for a product or service. More broadly‚ price is the sum of the values consumers exchange for the benefits of having or using the product or service. A company ’s pricing decisions are affected both by internal company factors and by external environmental factors. These factors
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Case Study 3 Pricing Strategy Payless Shoesource: Paying less for fashion Table of Contents BACKGROUND…………………………………………………... 3 OBJECTIVE……………………………………………………….. 3 PROCEDURES……………………………………………………. 4 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS………………………………………. 4 CASE STUDY QUESTION: 1…………………………………….. 4 CASE STUDY QUESTION: 2 …………………………………….. 5 CASE STUDY QUESTION: 3……………………………………... 6 CASE STUDY QUESTION:
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J.CO DONUTS & COFFE DISTRIBUTION CASE STUDY I. Viewpoint The viewpoint will be on the said company’s retail customers. Walk-in customer as well as the loyal customer of the store. II. Time Context The donuts may be good but service has been deteriorating over the past months‚ year 2013-2014. III. Short Historical Background The Company is a premium‚ lifestyle café brand founded in Indonesia has now come to the shore of the Philippines. It is a lifestyle café retailer specializing in donuts
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thanks to her for supervising us during this semester in order to come up with this report. Also‚ I would like to thank Mrs. Prasitha Nair for welcoming us at her office and being kind with us by delivering the needed information about Dunkin’ Donuts Marketing Channel. At the end‚ I have to admit that without the teamwork spirit this report had no chance to exist. Thanks for each who spent his or her effort and even a single moment on this report. By: Khalid Yahia Raghad Ahmad Majid
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Dunkin’ Donuts is a company entrenched within the United States. There is a 94% brand awareness for Dunkin’ Donuts within the United States‚ which shows that it has some standing within the United States‚ whether it is good or bad. Dunkin’ Donuts made about $591.1 million in revenue just from stores within the United States. Its quick service has allowed it to become an integral part of many consumers’ mornings. While Dunkin’ Donuts is extremely popular‚ our research findings have lead us to believe
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DUNKIN DONUTS PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Performance Management strategy focuses on what is involved in managing the organization. It is a natural process of management‚ not a system or a technique. (Fowler‚ 1990). It is also about managing within the context of the business (its internal and external environment). This will affect how performance operates. (Michael Armstrong‚ 2004). This paper will analyze Dunkin Donuts’ performance management strategy. Dunkin Donuts is one
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environment. This is indeed the case with its implementation of its pricing strategy‚ which is one of localisation rather than globalisation. Table II illustrates the comparative Big Mac prices (flagship brand of McDonald’s) from around the world. It succeeds in highlighting the point that McDonald’s has had to come up with different pricing strategies for different countries. More importantly‚ rather than just having a different pricing policy for the Big Mac in these listed countries‚ McDonald’s has
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2.2 Pricing Strategy 2.2.1 Factors affecting pricing decisions Milo is considered as a product of monopolistic competition market because there are many competitors of Milo in the market. Some of the competitors include Vico‚ Ovaltine‚ Horlicks‚ Dutch Lady and Nutrilite. Secondly‚ monopolistic competition market has free market entry and exit. This means that new competitors can enter the market easily and Milo may be easily force out of the market by its competitors. Monopolistic competition
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