Boston Chicken Inc. Case Study 10/22/08 (All amounts listed in thousands) 1. Boston Chicken implemented a franchising strategy that differed from most other franchising companies at the time. Boston Chicken focused its expansion through franchising the company through large regional developers rather than selling store franchises to a large number of small franchisees. In that‚ an established network of 22 regional franchises that targeted their operations in the 60 largest U.S. metropolitan
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sport in which two roosters specifically bred for aggressiveness are placed beak to beak in a small ring and encouraged to fight to the death—has been around for centuries. Roosters were first bred for fighting in Southeast Asia more than 3‚000 years ago‚ and cockfighting later spread to Greece‚ Rome and Britain before crossing the Atlantic about 200 years ago. The brutal “sport" found popularity in North‚ South and Central Americas‚ and was particularly prevalent in Colonial New York‚ Philadelphia
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Boston Chicken Case Boston Chicken Inc is chain of fast food restaurants‚ and also in the business of take-out home cooked food. The main business strategy of Boston Chicken is differentiation. To achieve their overall business strategy‚ Boston Chicken implemented four strategies. First‚ Boston Chicken focused on franchising to larger regional developers after a careful screening process. Second‚ Boston Chicken diversified their product offering by keeping introducing new varieties of
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Information Technology Management Question 1 As the team of a group of consultants engaged to design a network plan for a medium sized company‚ you are required to develop a network plan for the company. Your plan must include a covered of the following aspects: a) The type of network to be used b) The type of topology that best fits the requirements of the company c) The server support required d) The types of peripheral devices required e) The communication media to be used Answer In many
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increasingly sophisticated technology in health care‚ comes the factor of “cost”. The rapid progression in the field of health care technology has brought into attention the impact of cost in using these technologies. The increasing use of advanced technologies in health care industry does not come cheap. The cost of implementing and maintaining technology in health care industry is high. According to the article‚ Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology (May 2008) (referred
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Mother company PG Tips is a brand of tea in the United Kingdom‚ manufactured by Unilever UK. The founder of PG tips is Arthur Brooke. He launched the product in 1930. He opened his first shop in Manchester‚ but years later he becomes big in the market. This because a big grocer placed a bulk order of tea at wholesale prices. The original name was Pre-gest-tee which shows that the tea could be uses as a digestive aid. Grocers changed the name into PG‚ and the company added ‘tips’ to highlight
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343 Dandan Chen Gangs of New York: A Cultural Shift In the 2002 Film “Gangs of New York” by Martin Scorsese we see New York City reshaped and changed through cultural influence of feuding individuals and groups with different ideas. On the surface the movie seems to have a straight forward theme but in the back ground we see a cultural shift as immigrants come into America and New York City. In the movie we see the political influence during that time in history‚ and we see social status
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Writing assignment #2 Compare and contrast essay Over the past ten years Portland and New York have been vying for distinction of being creative capital of the United States. They range in size‚ both geographically and in terms of population‚ they have very different environments and people‚ although they have some things in common‚ like a diverse art and music scene. We can explore these differences and similarities to better understand the significance of each city and the things they
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impact does sales promotion have on consumer behavior‚ what information should be given to the customer‚ locations where advertising should take place to reach target audience. Our secondary research has provided us with many useful information that has answered many questioned we had unanswered. For example‚ we were curious into how some sales promotion would affect consumer behavior. In our research we discovered that there are different types of promotion (such as coupons and rebates) and that
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