Strategic Message Planner: Chili’s
Advertising Goal
“Food like home brought close to you,” the goal is to appeal to the target audience, students that make up a large portion of the populace, by comparing Chili’s hot and diverse options to home-like food they may have previously consumed. As well as families in the surrounding areas, there are select choices for eating out in the surrounding area.
Client: Key Facts
Chili’s was founded in 1975 by Larry Lavine in Texas, currently, it is operated by Brinker International and is considered a casual American dining experience. The company focuses primarily on burgers, fajitas, and ribs while incorporating a variety of Tex-Mex and blended American options.
Their yearly revenue is around 3.8
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There are options for vegans and vegetarians and even gluten-free is included. There are meals you can order with allergen concerns acknowledged as well as offers the dietary information of the diverse choices.
Like many restaurants, when your food needs to be handled according to special protocols to reduce cross-contamination of allergens, you notify your server. Chili’s can fulfill steps to prevent contamination with gluten products, but these ingredients are still present. Therefore, Chili’s can not guarantee a meal is absent of gluten.
Inspired by Southwestern-style cuisine as well as traditional casual dining favorites, Chili’s menu caters to many different tastes and diets. Also worth noting, are the large serving sizes, bottomless drinks, and a menu of salty, high-protein, and fiber dishes. This is a huge selling point for college students who find their food on campus or surrounding options lacking in certain aspects. Serving sizes are a huge bonus for their budgets as well as for the families of Weatherford.
Target Audience: Demographics and
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The most recent “Three for Me” deal is an example of helpful money management options. The large and sizable portions also allow for more bang for their buck.
Direct Competitors and Brand Images
Texas Roadhouse is Chili’s largest looming competitor in the market, having the same originating point, being the state of Texas. However, there is no Texas Roadhouse here in Weatherford, Oklahoma so Chili’s would be taking advantage of the promising open real estate. There are 7 Chili’s alone in Oklahoma City and only 3 Texas Roadhouse locations. Hawaii is the only state lacking a Texas Roadhouse. Texas Roadhouse supports over 82,000 employees with a yearly revenue of 4 billion dollars.
Indirect Competitors and Brand Images
Indirect competitors would include other restaurant and hospitality businesses such as Olive Garden, Cheesecake Factory, Red Robin, and Applebee’s. Each is a dining experience with American blended foods and utilizes wait staff and servers to magnify personable customer service within establishments. Applebee’s employs 28,000 individuals, while Olive Garden has about 100,000 in employment. Red Robin operates with 24,335 people, and the Cheesecake Factory has around
Texas Roadhouse is an all American restaurant that serves a variety of delicious dishes. Texas Roadhouse is by far the best restaurant in Columbus, Indiana due to it’s environment, delicious mid-priced meals, and the hospitality of employees. The first thing that attracts customers to a restaurant is the appearance and environment of that restaurant. Texas Roadhouse is a western-style restaurant that is perfect for any lunch or dinner. The environment is friendly and extremely energetic.
Last year there was more than 20,000 inquiries and only 75 to 80 were accepted. Chick-fil-A is very highly regarded in the fast food industry with only 2,000 locations. The company generates more revenue per restaurant than any other fast-food chain in the US, according to QSR magazine. These restaurants are very selective, and are never open on Sundays and they still beat out or are par with the bigger chains that are open seven days a week and are in 14,000
Companies can increase their sales by trying different promotional tactics to keep their revenue growing. Chick-fil-A introduced many innovative concepts. To include Quick service Mall restaurants, Stand alone restaurants for high traffic locations, Drive-thru only outlets, Dwarf House offering full-service with an extensive menu, Truett’s Grill full-service '50s diner-themed concept, Truett’s luau offering seafood and Hawaiian inspired dishes, Licensed Non-Traditional Outlets offering Chick-fil-A food in settings such as college campuses, hospitals, airports, and business and industry locations, and Satelite/Lunch-Counter offering service to customers in office buildings and high-traffic locations during peak lunch
It is firmly committed to its clean food policy, meaning that the company only uses fresh and high-quality ingredients with no artificial preservatives. Furthermore, as 2016, Panera operated and franchised over two thousand stores throughout the U.S. as well as few stores in Canada (Panera Bread Company [PBC], 2017). Panera is similar to Chipotle with regards to their alike business philosophy and their strong presence in the U.S market. • The Wendy’s Company: Wendy’s highly values food quality, claiming to use fresh and never frozen ground beef in its food items. The U.S. is probably the most relevant market for Wendy’s, considering that there were 6,098 Wendy’s restaurants in the North America and only 439 restaurants outside of this territory as the end of 2016 (TWC, 2017).
He explains the new technology that Chili’s has placed in over 800 of their restaurants (41). This tabletop computer is designed to take your order, but Chili’s claims it is not intended to replace servers (“Wage Warrior” 41). The last time I ate at Chili’s I noticed this new edition. They had a similar look to many of the various tablets that can be found in many peoples homes today.
Also I have seen an abundance of Mexican food in the local grocery stores. 3. Support material: Everywhere I go around Houston, I see a lot of fast food restaurants for example: Whataburger, McDonalds, Subway and Taco Bell etc. Houstonians also enjoy steak restaurants located all over the area. BBQ is very famous in Houston. We as Houstonians we love to eat a lot.
Not only is the utility of the food outstanding but the quantity of the food is equally outstanding. All of Texas Roadhouse’s meals come in large portions, enough to save some and take home for later. Multiple times, boxes are needed to pack up leftover food that was not indulged. For outstanding quality food and big portions, their prices are not excessive either. For the amount of food received, the price of the meal is affordable.
The fast food restaurant brand Chick-fil-A is known for its chicken sandwiches, nuggets, and waffle fries. S. Truett Cathy established the business in 1946 in Hapeville, Georgia, where the original restaurant is still open today. At the age of 25, Cathy opened his first company, a modest diner. He was a natural businessman. The first Chick-fil-A was The Dwarf Grill which was a little eatery that provided fast foods such as hot dogs, hamburgers, and hamburgers.
Then in 1998, McDonalds invested $360 million into Chipotle, allowing it to expand rapidly. The Chipotle Mexican Grill experience is an introduction to fast food 2.0, a new version of chain eateries that focus on quick, fresh, and hip food for us young people. Focusing on fresh ingredients, Chipotle’s ingredients are organic and their meat is not contaminated with chemicals, unlike most other fast food chains. When I step up to the counter, I notice a refrigerator filled with drinks. With a full liquor license, Chipotle also
Although Whataburger is loved in Texas it still competes against all other fast-food chains in the market and has a harder competition in out of state markets. Some of Whataburger’s biggest competitors are In-N-Out burger, Five Guys, McDonalds, Jack in the Box, and Chik-fil-A (“Whataburger Competitors”, n.d.). They do not compete only in financial revenue but also in areas where the public judges them like customer service, pricing, Product Quality, and Culture (“Whataburger Competitors”, n.d.). Among all these categories Whataburger continues to stay within the top five as shown in Figure 1.
The firm is aesthetically pleasing, efficient and they have a distinctive interior. Chipotles serving line layout helps with their efficiency. This type of layout allows them to serve as many as two hundred customers and hour. Another factor that increases the brands value is the customization of food products it provides to consumers. Customers have the ability to add as many ingredients as they would like at a consistent price point, this added value increases the customer’s willingness to pay (www.fastcasual.com).
Abstract Chipotle Mexican Grill is a well-known company that deals with fast food and has made significant and distinctive progress compared to other companies in the fast food industry. The company not only prepares food in front of customers but also makes sure that food is made with integrity. The integrity is enhanced by finding, evaluating, and choosing the right ingredients, which are from animals, farmers, and the environment (chipotle.com). These are the principles that serve to direct and guide the organization and help position it as a leader in the industry.
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.
In 2002, fast-food chains were competing by following the concept of lowering the prices, while Wendy’s chose to focus on product expansion and product quality a new selection of fresh healthy salads called Garden Sensations. 2) As Wendy’s founder David Thomas dies in 2002, Wendy’s planned to add from 2,000 to 4,000 location in a decade and focus
On the other hand, taco bell Dubai maintained a good relationship with its suppliers in order to create customer value. Moving on to the competitors, Taco bell Dubai has many competitors but since it is in the Dubai mall. Taco bell is the only fast food restaurant providing Tex-Mex foods. In this case, Taco bell competitors are the other fast food restaurants located in the same area. Taco bell Dubai has few customers compared to their competitors.