Download or read book Winning the Chain Restaurant Game written by Charles Bernstein and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1994-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winning the Chain Restaurant Game Are you ready for success?... Find out what it takes in this insider's guide to making it intoday's most exciting growth industry. In this instructive and inspiring book, award-winning authorsand foodservice industry experts Charles Bernstein and Ron Paultell how the most successful restaurant companies win withbottom-up management, putting the customer on top. Based oninterviews with more than a hundred industry executives and packedwith enlightening examples as well as a few historic failures, thisunique book teaches important lessons for restaurateurs and otherentrepreneurs: * Presents the first authoritative, in-depth look at therestaurant chain industry as a whole * Tells how successful chain CEOs produce results with variedwinning styles * Isolates and clearly describes the eight crucial factors, orstrategic "links," vital to restaurant chain success * Tells how chains can capitalize on bulk purchasing, brandidentity, consistent execution, an individual sense of styleand--most of all--finding unique ways to please thecustomer Few success stories so thoroughly embody the twentieth-centuryAmerican dream as those of restaurant chains such as McDonald's,KFC, Pizza Hut, Wendy's, Little Caesar's, and Taco Bell. Butbesides the "true grit" demonstrated by entrepreneurial heros likeMcDonald's Ray Kroc and Wendy's Dave Thomas, what does it take tobuild and maintain a successful restaurant or retail chain? Findout in this first book to give a broad, long-term perspective onone of the nation's leading growth industries and to offer cruciallessons for all entrepreneurs, no matter what the business. Winning the Chain Restaurant Game, by award-winning authors andnoted foodservice industry experts Charles Bernstein and Ron Paul,documents the critical success factors required for one of thetoughest, most competitive industries. Highlighting the winning styles of more than a hundred chainexecutives, their triumphs, trials, disappointments, andturnarounds, this fascinating and instructive book identifies theeight strategic "links" that lead to victory in the chainrestaurant business. With surgical precision, Bernstein and Paulexplore such key factors as leadership, motivation, bulkpurchasing, marketing, identity, consistency, and expansion. Butthey place focus ahead of everything and conclude that theentrepreneurial passion of an executive who deeply believes in hisconcept is the ultimate catalyst for success. Small- to medium-size chains are going public at a dizzying paceand there are enormous financial opportunities for savvy restaurantowners. Winning the Chain Restaurant Game arms operators with thevital know-how needed to win the game.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food written by Andrew F. Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eating junk food and fast food is a great all-American passion. American kids and grownups love their candy bars, Big Macs and supersized fries, Doritos, Twinkies, and Good Humor ice cream bars. The disastrous health effects from the enormous appetite for these processed fat- and sugar-loaded foods are well publicized now. This was particularly dramatically evidenced by Super Size Me (2004), filmmaker Morgan Spurlock's 30-day all-McDonald's diet in which his liver suffered the same poisoning as if he had been on an extended alcohol binge. Through increased globalization, American popular food culture is being increasingly emulated elsewhere in the world, such as China, with the potential for similar disastrous consequences. This A-to-Z reference is the first to focus on the junk food and fast food phenomena from a multitude of angles in addition to health and diet concerns. More than 250 essay entries objectively explore the scope of the topics to illuminate the American way through products, corporations and entrepreneurs, social history, popular culture, organizations, issues, politics, commercialism and consumerism, and much more. Interest in these topics is high. This informative and fascinating work, with entries on current controversies such as mad cow disease and factory farming, the food pyramid, movie tie-ins, and marketing to children, will be highly useful for reports, research, and browsing. It takes readers behind the scenes, examining the significance of such things as uniforms, training, packaging, and franchising. Readers of every age will also enjoy the nostalgia factor, learning about the background of iconic drive-ins, the story behind the mascots, facts about their favorite candy bar, and collectables. Each entry ends with suggested reading. Besides an introduction, a timeline, glossary, bibliography, resource guide, and photos enhance the text. Sample entries: A&W Root Beer; Advertising; Automobiles; Ben & Jerry's; Burger King; Carhops; Center for Science in the Public Interest; Christmas; Cola Wars; Employment; Fair Food; Fast Food Nation; Hershey, Milton; Hollywood; Injury; Krispy Kreme; Lobbying; Nabisco; Obesity; PepsiCo; Salt; Soda Fountain; Teen Hangouts; Vegetarianism; White Castle; Yum! Brands, Inc.

Download or read book Chain Leader written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Winning the Right Game written by Ron Adner and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to succeed in an era of ecosystem-based disruption: strategies and tools for offense, defense, timing, and leadership in a changing competitive landscape. The basis of competition is changing. Are you prepared? Rivalry is shifting from well-defined industries to broader ecosystems: automobiles to mobility platforms; banking to fintech; television broadcasting to video streaming. Your competitors are coming from new directions and pursuing different goals from those of your familiar rivals. In this world, succeeding with the old rules can mean losing the new game. Winning the Right Game introduces the concepts, tools, and frameworks necessary to confront the threat of ecosystem disruption and to develop the strategies that will let your organization play ecosystem offense. To succeed in this world, you need to change your perspective on competition, growth, and leadership. In this book, strategy expert Ron Adner offers a new way of thinking, illustrating breakthrough ideas with compelling cases. How did a strategy of ecosystem defense save Wayfair and Spotify from being crushed by giants Amazon and Apple? How did Oprah Winfrey redraw industry boundaries to transition from television host to multimedia mogul? How did a shift to an alignment mindset enable Microsoft's cloud-based revival? Each was rooted in a new approach to competitors, partners, and timing that you can apply to your own organization. For today's leaders the difference between success and failure is no longer simply winning, but rather being sure that you are winning the right game.

Download or read book Franchising Hospitality Services written by Conrad Lashley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Franchising in the Hospitality Industry' provides an overview of the issues, debates and challenges associated with business franchising. In two parts, this text firstly looks at the issues from both an academic and practitioner perspective. The second part looks more closely at service sector groups in the hospitality industry, such as hotels, leisure and catering using national and international examples and illustrations. These demonstrate how the theories and debates discussed in the first part, are tackled in real life situations. Examples used are from well known companies such as McDonalds, Baskin Robbins, Burger King, Choice Hotels, Holiday Inn, Domino Pizza, Pierre Victoire amongst others.

Download or read book Fat Land written by Greg Critser and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today Americans are the fattest people on the face of the earth (save for the inhabitants of a few South Seas islands). About 61 percent of Americans are overweight. This book shows how and why Americans got that way.

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Download or read book Top Secret Restaurant Recipes written by Todd Wilbur and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series with more than 4 million books sold! Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars gobbling up meals at full-service restaurant chains, inspiring Todd Wilbur to change his focus from cracking the recipes for convenience store foods to cloning the popular dishes served at these sit-down stand-bys. Wilbur's knock-offs, absolutely indiscernible from the originals, are selected from national and regional chains, many drawn from a list of the top ten full-service restaurant chains, including Houlihan's, Red Lobster, and Pizza Hut. Also included in this savory cookbook is a special section devoted to dishes from hot theme restaurants such as Hard Rock Cafe, Planet Hollywood, and Dive! Recipes include: Applebee's Quesadillas; Denny's Moons Over My Hammy; Bennigan's Cookie Mountain Sundae; The Olive Garden Toscana Soup; The Cheesecake Factory Bruschetta; T.G.I.Friday's Nine-Layer Dip; Pizza Hut Original Stuffed Crust Pizza; Chi-Chi's Nachos Grande, and many more!

Download or read book New Serial Titles written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

Download or read book Cheering for Self written by James S. Vass Jr and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-05-13 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of UW men's basketball fans during the 2001-2002 season and explores their proclivity to 'cheering for self' during basketball events. The term 'basketball event' is used rather than 'basketball game' to make clear that everything connected to and seen, heard, or experienced before, during and after a basketball game is included. The actual game itself is only part of the 'basketball event. An undercurrent runs throughout this participant observation mini-ethnography dealing with access, and the relative quality of that access, to basketball events being affected by ones age, class, race, and gender. The prominent role of advertising in shaping basketball events and helping to construct fans as consumers of products (both commercial and institutional) during the process of cheering for self is central to this idea. Cheering for self is the activity engaged in by individual fans after they find things to identify or connect with through personal investment. Fans cheer for self indirectly. Fans cheer for the team that they identify with. Through the process of cheering for self while attending the basketball event people are taught how to become fans, to consume a UW product--the basketball event and to consume advertisers' products. People have a tendency to spend their entire life trying to impress others.

Download or read book Financial Valuation Website written by James R. Hitchner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 1583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real world applications and professional consensus by nationally recognized valuation experts Filled with a wealth of detail, practice tips, and examples, Financial Valuation: Applications and Models, Third Edition brings together thirty nationally recognized names in the valuation industry hailing from a variety of professional specializations-including accounting, business appraisal, and financial analysis-to provide practitioners with an indispensable reference on various valuation issues. Assembled by valuation authority James Hitchner, these contributors analyze, explain, and collaborate on the most effective valuation procedures to share real-world applications in the field of financial valuations. Written by 30 top experts in business valuations field Provides the valuation theory, the consensus view on application, and then the tools to apply it An all-encompassing valuation handbook that presents the application of financial valuation theory for business appraisers and consultants New chapters on Assessing Risk and Expert Witness Testimony Expands chapter on Cost of Capital Comprehensive in coverage and authoritative in treatment, James Hitchner's Financial Valuation, Third Edition provides trusted, complete business valuation information for CPAs, appraisers, analysts, attorneys, and corporate executives.

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to International Hospitality Management written by Marco A. Gardini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hospitality sector is facing increasing competition and complexity over recent decades in its development towards a global industry. The strategic response to this is still that hospitality companies try to grow outside their traditional territories and domestic markets, while the expansion patterns and M&A activities of international hotel and restaurant chains reflect this phenomenon. Yet, interestingly, the strategies, concepts, and methods of internationalization as well as the managerial and organizational challenges and impacts of globalizing the hospitality business are under-researched in this industry. While the mainstream research on international management offers an abundance of information and knowledge on topics, players, trends, concepts, frameworks, or methodologies, its ability to produce viable insights for the hospitality industry is limited, as the mainstream research is taking place outside of the service sector. Specific research directions and related cases like the international dimensions of strategy, organization, marketing, sales, staffing, control, culture, and others to the hospitality industry are rarely identifiable so far. The core rationale of this book is therefore to present newest insights from research and industry in the field of international hospitality, drawing together recent scientific knowledge and state-of-the-art expertise to suggest directions for future work. It is designed to raise awareness on the international factors influencing the strategy and performance of hospitality organizations, while analyzing and discussing the present and future challenges for hospitality firms going or being international. This book will provide a comprehensive overview and deeper understanding of trends and issues to researchers, practitioners, and students by showing how to master current and future challenges when entering and competing in the global hospitality industry.

Download or read book A Profile of the Hospitality Industry written by Betsy Bender Stringam and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hospitality industry is one of the world's largest and oldest industries. A Profile of the Hospitality Industry provides an inside look to the strategies of this industry. This book reviews the developments, challenges, and opportunities for the hotel, restaurant, foodservice and gaming industries. The hospitality industry is unique in many aspects which makes this book a must read for hospitality students, business students and those interested in management strategy.

Download or read book Fast Food Maniac written by Jon Hein and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved personality from The Howard Stern Show celebrates American fast food, exploring the history and secret menu items of both national and regional chains, ranking everything from burgers and fries to ice and mascots, and offering his own expert tips on where to go and what to order. Jon Hein is the ultimate fast food maniac, and in this book he draws on his extensive knowledge of, and love for, both nationwide chains and regional gems, from McDonald’s and KFC to In-N-Out Burger and Carvel. He digs into their origin stories; reveals secret menu items; includes best lists for everything from fried chicken and shakes to connoisseur concerns such as straws and biscuits; takes a nostalgic look back at the best giveaways, slogans, and uniforms; and even provides a battle-tested drive-thru strategy. With behind-the-counter looks at places like the Dunkin' Donuts headquarters and Nathan's original hot dog stand, Fast Food Maniac is the definitive, cross-country guide to some of America's best-loved guilty pleasures.

Download or read book Pioneers of the Hospitality Industry written by Linda J. Shea and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hotel sector is highlighted by pioneers Conrad Hilton, Howard Johnson, Richard Kessler, J.W. Marriott, Isadore Sharp, Kemmons Wilson in the U.S. and Che-Woo Lui of China and Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh of India (Oberi Group). The food service sector highlights the quick service segment. Also represented are the casino resort segment, the club segment, the cruise sector and the hotel investment segment.

Download or read book Breaking the Chains written by John F. Nargi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-12-12 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Breaking the Chains” starts off where “If I fell” ended, and is an illustration at how friendships develop, devolve, and sometimes end. From diffidence to recklessness, follow John as he tries to navigate the choppy waters that is college life at Umass, Amherst. From trying to overcome his fears and phobias, to meeting the friend of a lifetime, this story encapsulates what life was like, coming of age, for an awkward, shy, introvert, in the nineteen eighties.

Download or read book reFresh written by Ruth Tal and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Canada’s hottest restaurants puts a Fresh spin on vegetarian cuisine! Toronto’s Fresh restaurants are consistently rated as among the most popular restaurants in the city. Appealing to vegetarians, vegans and those who enjoy meatfree meals as part of a healthy diet, Fresh has evolved from a humble juice bar into a chain of three dynamic and gorgeous downtown restaurants. reFresh is a new edition of Ruth Tal’s first book, Juice for Life (Wiley 2000, 978-0-7715-7690-4). Completely revised and updated, reFresh offers the reader a sumptuous selection of the best recipes found on the restaurant’s menu today, all in a gorgeous full colour package that reflects the award-winning style and design of the restaurants themselves. New in this edition: Over 100 of the latest recipes from the three Fresh restaurants A fresh new design that calls attention to the health benefits of various menu items Information on nutritional supplements that can be incorporated into the recipes for an added boost! Up-to-date information on buying and using a juicer at home A complete recipe index A new foreword by renowned chef Susur Lee