Fundamentals of Management
Final Project
Max Livingstone, Joi Wright, Zenea Johnson, Malcolm Smith, Samuel Death
Dr. Fening
November 3, 2015

Barcelona Restaurant Group is a collection of seven wine and tapas bars in Connecticut and Atlanta, Georgia that serve an authentic Spanish cuisine. Andy Pforzheimer founded Barcelona Restaurant. Pforzheimer was captivated in the smells and tastes of the cities restaurants when he took a road trip to New Orleans at the age of nineteen. Decades later, he is now a renowned chef and co-owner of the Barcelona Restaurant Group along wit the CEO Scott Lawton. Barcelona prides itself as being an “antichain” restaurant because every dish has the color, flavor, and touch of the neighborhood in which it is located. The dishes are custom made by the chef, and wine is imported from various countries around the world such as Spain and Portugal. What makes this restaurant particularly unique is the style of management that both Lawton and Pforzheimer use when there is running their business. Andy’s approach is both consistent and inconsistent to the modern development and way of thinking in today’s world of management. According to Robbins’, Decenzo’s, and Coulter’s textbook “Fundamentals of Management” book, there are four primary definitions of management. There are multiple definitions because every organization is different in terms of ownership. However, for the purposes of this report we will use the most general definition, which defines management as the process of getting things done effectively and efficiently with and through people. (Fundamentals of Management, Pg. 461). When running his business, Andy primarily uses the behavioral approach to management. According to Robbins’, Decenzo’s, and Coulter’s textbook “Fundamentals of Management” book, the behavioral approach to management is an approach that focuses on the