Aggressively pursuing refranchising opportunities:
Burger King are strongly working towards finding ways and means to refranchise their domestic and international company outlets to their existing or new franchisees, they believe a business model where their entire business is highly franchised will mean lesser capital investment on their part and better profits and margins.
Maintaining strong focus on corporate-level cost structure: .
Burger King are continuously trying to find opportunities to improve the Corporate level general and administrative efficiencies (G&A). The method that they introduced is called Zero based budgeting program which basically means that departmental budgets, estimation of costs and expenditure should be from
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Burger King Marketing mix
Price
Burger king faces high competition from competitors like Mcdonalds. It looks after the needs of the customers and sees to it that the customers feel satisfied paying the price they are for the items so the prices range from easily accessible to, to high price range as it has a vast number of customers from different income range. The prices are also determined by looking after the prices of its competitors.
Burger King recently joined McDonalds in offering a $1 double cheese burger.
Burger King plans to sell slushy drinks for $1 leading into the summer in order to offer an alternative to McDonalds $1 summer drink.
The company also will continue to sell its new premium burger, the Steakhouse XT, for $3.99 through mid-September, with another national television ad splash planned in August
Promotions
Like any other fast food chain burger king has made itself popular by advertising in television and print media. Its strategy is based around the concept of reorganization and revitalizing its brand at definite periods. It is very well known for its hit slogan “Have It Your Way” and its famous
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Physical Evidence
Buger King is based in Miami, Florida and is present worldwide having 11,900 restaurants in more than 50 states inclusing 336 in Michigan, 122 in Arizona, 547 in Florida and 107 in Alabama
Burger King has its own website bk . com . The site provides people with information about the products being sold , offers, about the company, its history etc.
Burger King is trying to reinvent itself and its doing this by changing its décor. It wanted to create an exceptional and memorable dining environment and drew inspiration from its flame-gilled cooking process.The company revamped up all of its nearly 12,000 locations with the new look, including LCD menu screens, corrugated metal and brick walls, as well as an exterior that emphasizes the “Home of the Whopper” tagline. It also got its franchisees to commit to these remodeling efforts by developing a low Burger king cost remodeling alternative and provided them with access to a third-party financing
McDonald’s can introduce a new item to their $1 menu and the world wide web will have dozens of articles written about it. the Sean John label as seen on its website
Core Competency(ies) of the Company The core competencies of Yum! is its ability to build up its supply chain quickly in new locations leading to above average procurement of packaging, key in the fast food industry. These factors combine to allow locations to hit the ground running and do what Yum! Brands locations do best; providing low cost items to their customer in a quick and timely fashion both domestically and internationally.
Like most companies, Tyson Foods is not invulnerable to threats from other companies or external elements that the company can’t control. The company has not been able to tackle the challenges present by the new entrants in the segment and has lost small market share in the niche categories. Tyson Foods has to build internal feedback mechanism directly from sales team on ground to counter these challenges. Financial planning is done improperly and inefficiently. The current asset ratio and liquid asset ratios suggest that the company can use the cash more efficiently than what it is doing at present.
In the review of the corporate level strategy, we can see many different competitive advantages branching from their use of corporate diversification and vertical integration. Going deeper into those strategies the three elements that allow for a competitive advantage for The Kroger Co. include operating into different markets, having a successful customer reward program, and by having many different locations nationwide under many different brand names. The VRIO analysis found that all three of these give Kroger’s a sustainable competitive advantage by being valuable, rare, costly to imitate and having the right organization structure business wide. In the review of the business level strategy, there were just as many different competitive
Introduction Company Summary The franchisor is Chick-fil-A, Inc. Franchisees (referred to as Operators) will operate a franchised Chick-fil-A Restaurant business which is a quick-service restaurant specializing in a boneless breast of chicken sandwich. Chick-fil-A Restaurants are established in free-standing locations as well as in non-free-standing locations, including mall and in-line units, non-traditional locations, and locations which are drive through only. Mission Statement Chick-fil-A doesn’t have an official mission but express it through its purpose: “To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us.
Introduction The restaurant industry in the United States had annual sales of $ 631.8 billion and employs 12.9 million people in 2012. Even in times of recession there is little evidence that this industry has seen a decline especially in its fast food and quick service segment. But with a depressed economy with no immediate upward trend in the near future, majority of the customers indicated that they would either curtail their spending on eating or best maintain its current level which is certainly going to affect the future of many restaurants in the industry. Chipotle is part of the fast casual segment of the U.S industry with over 1,600 restaurants.
What are the two types of core competencies that drive a firm’s competitive advantage? Which firms demonstrate a clear competitive advantage because of (a) major value-creating skills/core capabilities and/or (b) superior assets or resources? Which firms have demonstrated sustainable sources of competitive advantage? The two core competencies that drive a firm’s competitive advantage are cost leadership and differentiation.
For this efficient communication with its customers is very important. It makes use of networking, media and internet to communicate. Apart from advertising itself through radio, television, banners, barouches it’s also been reaching out to its customers with the help of social media like Facebook and twitter. It also uses demographical strategy to meet its consumer’s interest. Burger king have established a data driven marketing process whose main focus is driving restaurant sales and traffic, while targeting a larger consumer
It also contributes directly to ensuring the food they serve is safe for guests. Burger King works directly with producers to ensure all products are ethically sourced and that they comply with global standards and best practice. Their criteria is strict and closely monitored to ensure they partner with responsible suppliers who apply water saving techniques, don’t abuse the use of chemicals, and who conduct stock rotation to name but a few. This helps us to ensure that the products served to their guests fully comply with their responsible food journey
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT CASE STUDY: MCDONALD’S CORPORATION 1. INTRODUCTION McDonald’s Corporation is the world’s leading fast food restaurant chain with more than 34,000 local restaurants serving approximately 69 million people in 119 countries each day. More than 80% of McDonald’s restaurants worldwide are owned and operated by independent local franchisees. Its revenues come from the rent, royalties, and fees paid by the franchisees, as well as sales in company-operated restaurants (McDonald’s, n.d.).
The age factor used by the target market of McDonalds is a family with dual income that does not have the time to prepare their food for their children, the workers who are having lunch and teens. Besides that, according to Schroder and McEachern (2005), global target market fast-food industry account for 79 percent is at age 17-25. The income factor used by McDonald target customers are upper-middle and lower income consumers. The Mac value offered by McDonalds will attract lower class customers to upper-middle customers. McDonald 's lunch meal RM5.95 has improved the product as it is attractive to upper-middle and even lower customers.
A consumer can buy dishes from the basic menu and go for add-ons which is optional pricing and there are combo offers which comprise a mix of items. KFC has variety of options in each category. For example, in Bucket, there are menus with 8pcs, 12pcs and also 12pcs variety bucket (Hot & Crispy Original Recipe and Chicken Strips). KFC come up with different pricing and bundling strategies for the new launch product which are Vege burger and Vege Wrap such as lunch treat, combo meal and family meal. The superworthy meal enable to attract middle and lower class people to increase overall sales
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE & DESIGN KFC share in a divisional structure of Yum! Brands, Inc. Pizza Hut, Long John Silver’s, Taco Bell and A&W are the other divisions Offers spots to many people; good for senior executives Eager, alert, and flexible to growth and change KFC makes everything to be recognize and provide money to Yum! Brands, Inc. Chick-fil-a is KFC’s biggest competitor, and quickly growing in popularity. Other competitors include AFC Enterprises and McDonald’s CULTURE Big on diversity in the office
This is a huge market since the U.S. and the world revolved around convenience. Although McDonald’s is very popular right now you never know if one day it will become a shadow to another company. Next, since there are so many competitors each company is trying to be unique and bring new things to the market. Whether it is McDonald’s McPick 2 or Wendy’s 4 for 4 competitors are trying to out shine each other, making it hard to compete and keep prices down sometimes. With a quick google search I found that there are over 50,000 different fast food chains in the United States alone.
Background of KFC KFC was formerly known as Kentucky fried chicken and headquartered in Louisville in United States. Founded Colonel Harland Sanders, KFC is known mainly fried chicken, which is usually served in a bucket. KFC is one of the few brands in America that become the rich, decade’s long history of success and innovation. It all started with one cook who created the famous recipe in the world soon to be more than 70 years ago, there are more than 18,000 KFC outlets in 115 countries and territories worldwide (wisnudewobroto, 2016).