...Castle Family Restaurant HRM340 9/15/2014 INTRODUCTION Different areas of HRIS systems have been considered to help Castle’s Family Restaurant and Morgan save time and money. Morgan is the Operations/HR manager that has been using out of date methods for timekeeping, personnel support, and payroll. If a more efficient system could be implemented, Morgan would be able to accomplish more in other areas while limiting time and travel. BUSINESS ASSESSMENT The Castle Family restaurant is a restaurant chain located in Northern California that consists of 8 restaurants. They have approximately 340 employees, with 40% of those being full time. . Castle Family currently only has one person over both Operations management and HR, preferring to keep the business small as to make it seem more close nit and making it seem to employees that upper management was more accessible. Restaurants fight for customers daily, so having efficient management operations is crucial to providing the over the top customer services that restaurant goers look for. The National Restaurant Association shows that there are currently about 990,000 restaurant locations in the United States, and restaurants take in 47% of the food dollar that consumers spend. USDA estimates that the amount spent at full services restaurants will rise 18% from 2000 to 2020. Efficiency needs to be implemented at Castle’s Family Restaurant so that they can entice more restaurant goers and capitalize on the...
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...Jennifer Todaro DeVry University Professor Georgia Katsianis HRM420: Training & Development June 26, 2014 Instrument #1 Pre-Test 1. What are you looking to get out this training? 2. Are there certain areas you want covered? 3. What type of training do you respond best to? 4. Is this training required for your job? 5. Are you willing to stay for the entire training session? 6. What do you know about CSI? 7. What area of CSI are you most interested in? 8. Are there any areas you feel you do not need training in? 9. How long have you been in CSI? 10. Are you excited about this training? Instrument #2 https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FLW2TC7 Explanation on Measurement The way I would measure the gains that my trainees learned from the training is by using the four steps of Kirkpatrick’s four stages. The first being reaction I will see how the trainees feel about the training in general. I think by them taking the survey I provided it will give me good feedback on this training. It will also help me to know how they feel about having to do this training. Secondly, I will go to his level two which is learning, an example of this is also above by using my pre-test and seeing if I met their expectations in my training. I can also use a post-test as well instead of my survey to see if the information they learned matches in what the initially wanted from my pre-test....
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...Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage II April Reid November, 26 2010 DeVry University Mr. Morgan now that I have assessed your business needs I want to go even further and explain the details of the HRIS application I feel would be beneficial to you and your company Castle’s Family Restaurants. The HRIS I mentioned to you before that I feel would work best for you is the Management Information System (MIS). HRIS TYPE: The MIS system will allow for the eight stores to be connected to you at your location of work. You will be able to significantly cut down your time on the road away from the office as well as the gas that it is costing you in your travels. This will provide you with reports, current performance and historical information and it will also provide you with the ability to plan, control and make important decisions without having to travel to every store each week. You will also be able to conduct payroll properly by obtaining the information via the internet and shared information between each of the stores, by accessing the employees weekly work schedule from the comfort of your office. You will also be able to make the checks and have them processed in a timely manner for each pay period. MIS will also give you a transaction processing system, which simply records the routine transactions needed to conduct your business, such as shipping, or sales orders; and office automation systems, which are intended to increase the productivity of your office...
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... film ‘The Black Balloon’ produced by Tristram Miall and ‘The Road Not Taken’ written by Robert Frost, clearly display these misadventures and the rewards achieved once overcoming them. In difficult times individuals have must leave behind their old life and the safety it once provided in order to fully accept and enjoy their new life. In the novel ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’, Tom’s family is forced to leave the comfort of their hometown Mumbilli and move to Coghill due the selfish actions of his brother Daniel. Symbolism throughout this novel highlights the suffering of Tom and his family. “My father closed the door…for the last time”, this symbolic act and the secrecy in the way the Brennan family leave Mumbilli reveals the families remorse about the situation, they are not only closing the door of their old home, but the respectable life they once had, ruined by Daniel. “The silhouettes of houses slipped past before I could catch them and remember the people we were leaving behind”; Darkness or black is also used throughout the novel to represent the family’s state of despair. The Family fled Mumbilli close to dawn when only the silhouettes of the...
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...Castle Business Plan Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage III Susanna Vilim DeVry University HRM-340 1 Castle Business Plan Table of Contents Item Table of Contents Executive Summary Introduction Page # 2 3- 4 5 Company Review 6- 7 Business Analysis 8 - 11 HRIS Type/Comparison 12 - 14 HRIS Recommendation 15 - 17 Conclusion 18 Bibliography 19 2 Castle Business Plan Executive Summary Castle’s Family Restaurant being the successful family owned chain of restaurants completing in a dynamic yet economically challenged environment is to be commended. To continue to achieve the strategic business objectives of living out the corporate mission and expanding the current chain, the business plan set forth in detail will address current challenges being faced in payroll processes and the recommendations in addressing each of these needs so that the organization can meet and exceed current and future goals. Jay Morgan, operations manager, currently carries the responsibilities associated with payroll activities. Payroll processes are vital to the organization and the risks associated with implementing these activities are high. Implementing an automated Human Resource Information System (HRIS) will mitigate these risks and in turn will be beneficial to current and future objectives in growing the organization. Currently Castles utilize Compeat to address other aspects of the business; the recommendation...
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...Insurance…………………………………………………………………..p.9 Hotel Concept and Theme…......................................................................................p.10 Food Service Concept and Theme…………………………………………..………p.11 Hotel Licensing……………………………………………………………...………p.12 Liquor License, Health and Fire Permits…........……………………………………p.13 Business License……………………………………………………………….……p.13 Description of Target Markets………………………………………………………p.14 Market Potential…………………………………………………..…………………p.15 Competitive Analysis………………………………………………………………..p.16 SWOT Analysis………………………………………………..…………………….p.16 Location………………………………………………………..…………………….p.17 Nature of Competition…………………………………………………………….....p.17 Potential New Hire Competition…………………………………………………….p.17 Potential New Restaurant and Food Service Competition…………………………..p.17 Location Analysis………………………………………………………..……..……p.18 Description of the Area……………………………………………………………….p.18 Commercial Residential Profile………………………………..…………………..…p.18 Traffic Flow………………………………………………………………………...…p.18 Accessibility………………………………………………………………………..…p.18 Food Service Menus…………………………………………………………………..p.18 Beverage Menus……………………………………………………………………….p.18...
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...summary 3 II. Introduction 3 1) A Short story of Warwick Castle 3 2) Warwick Castle today 4 III. An overall look at Warwick Castle 4 1) Audit 4 2) Core competences: 7 3) New special events: 8 IV. SOSTAC 8 1) Situation (S.W.O.T model) 8 2) Objective (S.M.A.R.T model) 9 3) Strategic 11 4) Tactics: 12 5) Control: 12 V. The Detailed Budget for “Family Togetherness” event 12 1) ‘Salute’ 12 2) ‘Discover castle’: Visit castle with guider. 13 3) ‘United night’: It is the evening that all members in the family have comfortable time in castle to talk, to share and enjoy royal banquet. 13 4) ‘Competition among families’: it is a gift from sponsorship Coca-Cola. 13 5) ‘Child menus in the restaurant’ (sponsorship with Coca-Cola) 14 VI. Marketing and operation 14 VII. Management risk 15 VIII. References 15 I. Executive summary The purpose is to develop a new business strategy for Special Events in 2013 for 1 month. In this plan, we provide the background of Warwick Castle where happens the event. Moreover, we conduct some analysis about audit, core competences of Warwick Castle, and list 8 events happened at the same time in season. In addition, it is the plan to develop service, analysis of special event ‘Family togetherness (SOSTAC, marketing and operation, management risk). II. Introduction 1) A Short story of Warwick Castle Lord Brooke David Greville sold Warwick Castle in November 1978 after which it became a visitor attraction...
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...Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage III Lamont Stokes Keller Graduate School Executive Summary The business is a food chain restaurant that is located in Northern California with roughly 300-400 full time and part time employees. There are other competitions within the area which are other fast food restaurants and we all serve the customer that wants fast food, but we are more family oriented. The majority overview of this business plan was to review and discuss the HRIS needs of the company, the type of HRIS that will be used and also what vendor would be providing these services to Castle's Family Restaurant. Introduction This business plan will discuss the importance and the benefits of having an HRIS implemented for the payroll function of the Castle Family Restaurant. Discussing of the Vendor that is selected and some key information on what the vendor provides is available in the paper. This paper will serve as a recommendation to assist the company in streamlining the payroll function of the business. Company Review The name of the business that we are evaluating is called Castle’s Family restaurant. The business is currently located in Northern California and has approximately 300-340 employees. Most of the employees at Castle’s Family restaurant are part-time with about 40% of the employees being full time. As we take a look of...
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...Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage I Introduction Human Resource management teams work with the performance of activities such as bookkeeping, upholding policies and guidelines, employee performances, and ensuring that labor laws are enforced. Human resource managers utilize information systems to help in their daily duties of payroll, training, and organizations of personnel files. Human Resource managers develop and analyze functions that will determine the specific type of Human Resource Information system application is necessary to automate and create a strategic alliance for the Human resource department. The importance of determining the type of human resource information system application is to define which system can help make the business run more smoothly. A system is used to store, manipulate, analyze, acquire, retrieve and distribute important information. An HRIS system will help Human resource managers by providing them with more data on strategic levels and allow for the function of more efficient and better information for decision making. Business Assessment The Castle Family Restaurants has eight locations throughout Northern California. They currently have eight restaurants; only 40% of the employees are full time, with approximately 300-340 employees. In most traditional restaurants the food service managers are generally responsible for the daily operations of the restaurant. The Castle Family restaurant is currently being operated...
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...Castle’s Family Restaurant Business Plan: Stage III DeVry University Executive Summary The purpose of this business plan is to understand the restaurants business and its operations to improve its customer service and its employee relations. The Castle Family Restaurant has eight restaurants that operate under one regional manager that also acts as the Human Resource Manager for the restaurants. The goal is to develop a plan that can decrease the travel time of the regional manager so; that he, Jay Morgan, can save on gas due to high gas prices since each restaurant is located in the northern California area. The objective is to introduce a HRIS application and one vendor that can assist in the developing of the HR department and ease the transitioning of one individual HR manager to multiple employees. There are restaurants with profits in mind and provide the same food and service while the Castle’s Family believes in family, partnerships and developing relationships with one another for a great customer service. Introduction The Castle’s Family Restaurant has eight restaurants in northern California with about 300-340 employees. Most of the employees are part time with about 40% of them full-time. This business plan is to determine strategies that will eliminate the Human Resource position from Jay Morgan, so that he can reduce his travel time to all eight locations and to develop an HR department for the restaurants. In addition, the business plan is to enable...
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...Castle Family Restaurant Business Assessment Nathan Przybyl-Gallagher DeVry University Introduction As most of us know, being any type of manager no matter what is being managed is a lot of work and takes a big role, even more being an HR manager. The HR manager Jay Morgan, wants to reduce or just minimize some of his HR tasks issues that are not the easiest to solve overnight because there’s so many things that Jay has to think about not only for himself, but for the family restaurant and the employees he has working there full time and part time. Being the HR consultant of this project, he has chosen me to come up with a proposal to make things run a little smoother and less expensive of course. The name of the business I will help assist with is called Castles Family Restaurant in which is a restaurant made up of 8 locations with approximately 300-340 part-time employees and only 40% are full-time employees. This isn’t a small type of business we are working with. There are so many guidelines, rules and restrictions in managing any type of Food Chain Company. There are so many things to think about as a HR manager of a restaurant. Not just the restaurant itself but the environment, industry, and the work of the employees. There is definitely more important decisions to be made, pressure, and work and responsibility. Being a HR manager, there is a considerable amount of planning that goes into all the business travel. Even though, the high costs of the gas prices...
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...Currently, fast food industries are dominating America. Instead of going to fancy and expensive restaurant, people tend to buy fast food. Do people really fast foods? Indeed, half of American like fast foods more than restaurant dishes. They are convenient, cheap and tasty. First of all, America is the home of fast food industries, for example, we got McDonald, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and other big brand fast foods. The fast food industries are become international and have their stores all around the world. Second, fast food industries have their own famous products or foods, like McDonald has this BigMac, Big Breakfast, and KFC has their own recipe of Fried Chicken. Third, fast foods is attracting the kids and keeping their family to have meals like promoting the Kid’s Meal with the famous toys, like Minions from Despicable Me. And last, once a while, the fast food industries develop new menu, so people would like to try out their new foods. These are only the social advantages from the fast food industries. There are also economic advantages. First, fast food industries are improving people’s productivity. The foods are FAST, so people get their meal within a possible time. Therefore, they are improving their lunch time with fast food. Second, nowadays, everything’s costs are going up, the price also increase. People try to save money from spending to get nice looking and expensive foods but even can’t fill their half of their stomach. Therefore, fast food industries...
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...in Scandinavia Peninsula, has been offered for the consideration of the board and a detailed plan for implementation has attached. We will be looking forward to discuss the plan after you had reviewed our proposal. As always, please do not hesitate to call us or drop us an email if you have any enquiries or if we can be of further assistance. Thank you for your time and attention. Sincerely, Syndicate Group 1, Tutorial 10 – 11, Tuesday. Table of Contents Description | Pages | 1.0 Executive Summary | 4 | 2.0 Introduction 3.1 Background | 55 | 3.0 Investment Ideas 3.1 Eagle Nest Resorts & Spa in South East Asia 3.2 Aurora Resort in Iceland with spa 3.3 Castle by Eagle Nest with wine yard | 6789 | 4.0 Cost and Benefits 4.1 Cost/Income Statements | 1011-12 | 5.0 Recommended Idea | 13 | 6.0 Project Plan 6.1 Financial Evaluation 6.2 Timescales | 141515 | 7.0 Conclusion | 16 | 1.0 Executive Summary This proposal provides suggestions of investment ideas with details that fit within the given budget to create a sustained and long term growth for Eagle Nest Hotel Inc. The purpose of this proposal is to: * Create long...
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...Throughout the inception of civilization, restaurants have been an around in one or another shape or form. The utility of a restaurant or inn can provide to hungry travelers from all centuries of the past with invaluable resources of survival. Often times, whether or not a restaurant or inn was in proximity of travelers would determine whether or not these people met life or death. Nowadays, restaurants provide a convenient way to access a meal without having to go through the trouble of buying the raw food ingredients and cooking it yourself. While there are many kinds of restaurants, fast food restaurants tend to be pop up most often in everyday conversations and the media due to the fact that they are big corporations with vast locations throughout the world and are publicly traded in the stock exchange. White Castle is a famous burger restaurant that was once featured in a popular movie involving two young men on an adventure to said restaurant. It also so happens to be known as the first fast food chain. Founded in the 1920’s, White Castle revolutionized the perception that the public had of burgers. At the time, burgers were seen as low quality and were thought to have consisted of scraps and parts of animals that no one liked to eat. With White Castle setting the precedents, the McDonalds’ brothers soon followed suit, as well as Burger King and Taco Bell in the mid-1900’s. The concept of eating out became more accessible as well as more affordable to Americans. Most fast...
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...Executive Summary Castle’s Family Restaurant has been a highly successful restaurant operating in the northern California area for the last thirteen (13) years. As a family-owned chain, the restaurant as proven success by operating eight (8) restaurants under the family name. In an effort to continue achieving the high levels of success that it has experienced over the years and possibly expand further, certain aspects of the operation of the company will have to be controlled by technology. One such area is the HR process that has become a manual, time consuming, daunting process. Castle’s can improve their HR operations and support their growing company overall, by implementing a web-based HRIS. After much research and evaluating the needs of the organization my recommendation to help with automating the HR process would be Asentis. This web-based software would be an asset to the restaurant chain. It would assist the operations manager, Jay Morgan is carrying out his duties in a more time effective manner rather than driving from store to store to deal with HR issues. Asentis is secure, comprehensive, caters to the needs of a growing business and is very easy to use. Asentis will assist with the payroll process and other aspects of the business including scheduling, benefits management etc. Additionally, with a staff of 340 plus, having this system will allow for better scheduling which can also be tied into the payroll system once implemented that way. The software...
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