...“Papa John’s Pizza – Better Ingredients. Better Pizza.” This is the brand promise of Papa John’s International and the foundation of a careful mix of business strategies used to stand out from, and remain ahead of the competition. Papa John’s was established by a young entrepreneur that had the idea of creating a “better pizza” and with his passion and creativity, created “the third largest pizza company, with more than 2,800 pizza chain restaurants.” Papa John’s International, Reference for Business Encyclopedia of Business, 2nd edition, Oe-Pa. To achieve the goal of better pizza Papa John's has focused on the pizza eschewing pasta and sandwich items. In one article the author points out that everyone involved in the pizza business pretty much shares the techniques and activities needed to be competitive at the operations level: "Since there is no real secret to getting into and being in the pizza business all players basically have shared knowledge of what the competitive advantages are that each could hold". "The Associated Press (2009) Papa John’s successful strategies position themselves in the pizza market by offering reasonable prices, great quality, great service, and a selected menu, which aids in helping in becoming better than the competition. According to CEO Niegel Travis, Papa John’s focused on product quality and service which ensure profits. The trade-off is to avoid discounts, but by focusing on the quality of their ingredients, Papa John’s has successfully...
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...Schreiber John Schnatter founded papa John’s Pizza in the year 1984. John began his career in a small pizza restaurant in the City of Jeffersonville, Indiana. Upon completing his High School education, he matriculated to Ball State University. While attending college at Ball State he continued working in the pizza industry, working at another pizzeria. It was here that he learned much of what he knows about the pizza business. After completing college he returned home and found that, his father’s Bar was encountering financial trouble. Seeing this, John decided that he had to do something. He decided to sell his 1972 Camaro and use the money from the sale of his car to save his dads bar and knock down one of the walls in the bar and use this space to make a small pizzeria inside the bar. This was the first official Papa John’s Pizzeria. “I put my heart and soul, and everything I had learned from my father and grandfather, into my pizza business, and it paid off” (papajohns.com, 2012). From the beginning of his pizzeria, John used a totally different approach to pizza making than other pizzerias. He made a decision to put the same effort of a small town pizzeria into the mentality of the big pizzeria business plan. He knew that having superior quality, great customer service, and exceptional community service would create multitudes of satisfied customers for his business. As a result, Papa Johns has been rated #1 among all pizza chains in the United States. Papa John’s Pizza...
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...Case Assignment 1: Papa John’s International, Inc.: Twenty-First Century Growth Challenges Inverted broom closet in a hometown lounge. He called it Papa John’s. Today, there are over 2,500 locations across the North America, South America, Africa, Europe and Asia. While Papa John’s has done a very good job with their forward thinking strategies, there are still some avenues to be explored to keep them competing as one of the world’s best pizza chains. During the first year of the company’s inception, John was able to grow his business from one store to eight, and generate $500,000 in revenue. While Papa John’s may not have had true first movers advantage (Pizza Hut opened in 1958), they did have a distinct advantage when it came to product differentiation. Papa John’s prided themselves on “better ingredients” making a better pizza, which is something they stand by to this day. This selling point is what gave them an advantage over the likes of Pizza Hut, or Dominoes (est. 1967), and made it possible for them to enter the market. One of the early strategic moves made by John was to implement a hub-and-spoke type “commissary” (or quality control center) that was responsible for delivering ingredients, supplies, and dough to a number of stores in the surrounding geographic location. This allowed John to ensure the quality of the food being served. These centers were key to early expenditure and quality control, but would be hard to sustain in future expansion due to numerous...
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...Desire Nana HRM 587 Projects Domino Pizza vs. Papa John Pizza’s Information System change. Brief history: Domino’s was founded in 1960 by Tom Monaghan and his brother James when they purchased a single pizza store in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The company slowly began to grow, and by 1978, Domino’s had 200 stores. Today, the company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and operates almost 9,000 stores located in all 50 U.S. states and across the world in 60 international markets. In 2009, Domino’s had $1.5 billion in sales and earned $80 million in profit. But it also benefits from highly effective information systems. Brief history: In 1983, John picked up his business degree from Ball State University and went back to Jeffersonville, Indiana. There, at the age of 22, he knocked down the broom closet of his father's tavern (Mick's Lounge), purchased $1600 worth of used restaurant equipment, and began delivering pizzas out of the back of the bar. Today, the company has benefits from information system/ Changes that I will be discussed in this case are: 1- What kinds of information system both companies have adopted 2. How do these systems help Domino and Papa John's improve their business performance? 3. How did the online pizza ordering system improve the two processes of ordering pizza? 4. Which company has a completive edge? References: Retrieved on Sep 08, 2012 from the website: http://www2.sta.uwi.edu/~anikov/info1400/lectures/02-IT...
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...male athlete. He was born in 1976 and is currently still playing at the highest level he can in the sport he has a passion for. Outside of his career as an athlete, he is a loving husband and dad to twins. He was fortunate enough to marry his college sweetheart. I am a huge fan of this player, but while researching more information about him, I came across that he co-authored a children’s book entitled Family Huddle, which in text and pictures describes a little about his childhood with his brothers. He has also done voiceovers with his brothers on an episode of The Simpsons in 2009. We have seen this famous athlete on numerous sports channels, but you may have also seen him in a few commercials including Papa Johns. About three years ago he purchased 21 Papa Johns franchise. He has also been on an episode of Saturday Night Live where he hosted with a country singer by the name of Carrie Underwood on his 31st birthday. He graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree on Speech Communication along with a minor in business. After his athletic career is has been said that he plans to earn a masters degree in sports management. He had blunders, but his most notable one was when he mooned a friend during a physical causing a gag that offended the assistant trainer who reported the incident causing my famous person to be barred from eating with his teammates for two weeks. On the other hand, during his career of an athlete, he has played on two teams starting in the year...
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...the killer had no motive but mostly because he would leave messages through the letters he wrote. This letter was written to Captain Borrelli, It was left inside the car at the scene of the crime where the bodies of Valentina Surian and Alexander Esay were found. It read: Dear Captain Joseph Borrelli, I am deeply hurt by your calling me a wemon hater. I am not. But I am a monster. I am the 'Son of Sam.' I am a little brat.When father Sam gets drunk he gets mean. He beats his family. Sometimes he ties me up to the back of the house. Other times he locks me in the garage. Sam loves to drink blood. 'Go out and kill,' commands father Sam. 'Behind our house some rest. Mostly young — raped and slaughtered — their blood drained — just bones now. Papa Sam keeps me locked in the attic too. I can't get out but I look out the attic...
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...Contents 1. Abstract 2. Brief Company background 3. Discussion of business problem(s) 4. High level solution 5. Benefits of solving the problem 6. Business/technical approach 7. Business process changes 8. Conclusions and overall recommendations 9. High-level implementation plan 10. Summary of project ABSTRACT During the last decade, technology has evolved in such a way that it is now present in every aspect of our lives. Technology has made is possible to order many things online from the comfort of our home and have them delivered either directly to our house or to a local store where we can pick them up. Many pharmaceutical stores (Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid…), food stores (Pizza Hut, Papa Johns, Dominos…) and stores like Home Depot, Lowes and many others have those services available through their website or mobile applications for their customers. The main objective of this research project is to measure the benefits that such a technology could bring to Wawa stores, so that revenues can grow and production costs lowered. One objective is to identify why the technology is needed, another is to implement the technology and at last, analyze the benefits that it could bring to the company. BRIEF COMPANY BACKGROUND “ Wawa, Inc., privately held company, began in 1803 as an iron foundry in New Jersey. Toward the end of the 19th Century, owner George Wood took an interest in dairy farming and the family began a small processing...
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...To my dearest Mother and Papa, I pray this money indeed helps to ease some of the pain and suffering that I know you and my little brothers are having to endure. I pray to our God daily that he won’t let the blight on the potatoes take all of you from me. Your struggles weigh heavy on my mind and I have come to accept that this is part of my daily existence. I am working tirelessly to earn the money needed for your passage to America. As I know both of you are very giving, I ask you, that you please keep this money for your own sustenance, and to keep a roof over your head. I would be sick to think of all of you being sent to the streets for lack of money to pay our landlords. Please remain strong and know I am doing everything I can to get you out of Ireland as hastily as the Lord will allow. My dear family there is something that I hasten to share, but I feel as though I must make you aware that there is much truth to the stories we have all listened to about the voyage across the seas. The ships are very crowded and there are not enough provisions onboard for everybody. The conditions onboard made living precarious, and many passengers became very ill and others succumbed to death (526). I was one of the fortunate ones, I was selected to work below decks and assist in the steam rooms. My keen knowledge of machinery is fortunate, and when a steam valve ruptured I was able to fix it. The Captain, himself, sought me out to relay his gratitude for saving the voyage. When...
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...Study of Quick Service Restaurants in India Once an introvert, domestic home driven Indian population is now opening up to a culture of eating out. India is a young country with almost 60 percent of people in the age window of 18- 35 years which are also the most spending years, hence QSR. The first foreign Quick Service restaurant and casual dining entered Indian Market around 20 years ago. Although Quick Service Restaurants contributes to only 2-3% to India’s GDP, the market is worth INR 247,680 crore (USD 48 billion) and is expected to grow to INR 408,040 crore (USD 78 billion) by 2018. It comprises of food services that are organized such as full service casual and fine dining restaurants, hotels, bars and lounges, cafes and frozen dessert formats as well as unorganized sector such as Dhabas, street stalls, roadside vendors, food charts etc. The concept of QSR has gained prominence in India because of the affordable, competitive pricing and convenient quick service to the ever growing population. QSRs face few challenges in terms of Health and hygiene, beating local competition, monitoring multiple outlets in various cities, holding on to the customers as QSR customers are easy to sell to but also easy to lose, maintaining quality service, localization of menu and building a cost effective supply chain. Foreign QSRs have more 63% of the market shares but there are many Indian chains such as Haldiram’s, Faasos, Goli Vada Pav etc. that are flourishing in the market that is...
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...1937. It uses The Great Depression as a backdrop and hints of the black migration from South to North after the end of the Civil War and before desegregation in the South. The play is about a dispute between a sister, Berniece, who has moved to Pittsburgh and her brother, Boy Willie, who still lives in Mississippi. The brother wants to sell a family heirloom, a piano, to buy land down south. The sister wants to keep it in the family because of its family history and association with tragedy. The piano has carvings on it done by their great-grandfather and depicts important events in the lives of the Charles family during slavery. There is also the ghost of John Sutter, a member of the Sutter family who owned the Charles family during slavery times. He hovers over the piano and seems to not want the piano to be disturbed. The title of the play suggests that the play is about someone teaching a piano lesson, but the story is really about the lesson the piano teaches. The piano teaches this family that their ancestry and history are important but that one should not dwell in the past or base the future on dreams of symbolic retribution. Berniece and Boy Willie are the great grandchildren of Berniece and Willie Boy Charles, slaves owned by Robert and Ophelia Sutter. “Chattel slavery contributed significantly to pre–Civil War economic growth in the United States. The invention of the cotton gin (1793) dramatically increased the demand for slaves by lowering the cost of cotton production...
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...Kayla Farrant English 1550 Professor Roberts 10/16/2013 The Trippy Days “Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, no need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people sharing all the world.” This is a famous quote by John Lennon, a key model figure in the “counter-culture era”. If I invented a time machine and traveled back through time, I would stop in the year 1964. During this time period, the world started to change from a black and white opinion to the freedom for individuals to do and think as they please. The counter-culture era was a period when long held values and norms of behavior suddenly broke down, especially among the young. Teenagers became political activists and separated themselves from mainstream culture. They stood out through their appearance and lifestyle. Many members of the counter-culture saw their own lives as ways to express political and social beliefs. Personal appearance, song lyrics, and the arts were some of the methods used to make both individual and group statements. I chose to go back in time to this particular era because this period was all about going against the status quo. Attitudes about sexuality appeared to loosen, and women started standing their ground openly protesting their old- fashion roles of a mother and housewife, and people lived happy and free. Hippies catch my eye the most. With the tye-dye shirts, long hair, sexual promiscuity and recreational drugs like marijuana and hallucinogens...
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...Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis.[1][2] In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy. On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the newConstitutional Union Party. He was the first president from the Republican Party. His victory was entirely due to the strength of his support in the North and West; no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states, and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states.[123] Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights usingnonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. He was born Michael King, but his father changed his name in honor of theGerman reformer Martin Luther. A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)...
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...Research Methods Christina Childs ENG 225 Introduction to Film Jenessa Gerling August 5, 2013 In the opening credits, there is a close up shot of a feather flying in the wind. Like one of Forrest Gump’s sayings, “Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re gonna get” the feather is also used as a symbol for Forrest’s life and the way he has come to look at the world. Although he had an IQ of 75, Forrest takes us on a journey through his accomplished life from the 1950’s to the 1980’s from being disabled as a child wearing braces on his legs to a wealthy businessman who ironically became involved in almost every major event in American history. The movie “Forrest Gump” is said to be a movie that makes you laugh, cry and think. In 1995, Robert Zemeckis, director of Forrest Gump won the Oscar for best achievement in directing and in his acceptance speech he thanks the “motion picture fans” by saying “In historic numbers you have embraced a film that at its heart offers a human life affirming hopeful story” as I agree that this movie has made a social impact on us all that have seen the movie. “Telling the story out of chronological order, jumping back and forth between the present and the past is in Non-linear order” (Goodykoontz, 2011). The movie begins with Forrest Gump played by Tom Hanks is sitting on a bench waiting for a bus. We don’t know why he’s sitting there but as he’s sitting, he is telling his life story to people who are waiting for the...
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...for a moment. Helen Keller is famous--and justly so--precisely because she did, in many respects, overcome the physical impairments of deafness and blindness, as well as the formidable social obstacles facing people with disabilities at the end of the nineteenth century. Her story retains its power to startle and inspire even now, just as Anne Sullivan's story remains among the most startling and inspiring tales in the history of pedagogy. Keller's story is also a member of the genre of disability autobiographies in which the writing of one's life story takes on the characteristics of what the philosopher J.L. Austin called "performative" utterances: The primary function of The Story of My Life, in this sense, is to let readers know that its author is capable of telling the story of her life. The point is hardly a trivial one. Helen Keller was dogged nearly all her life by the charge that she was little more than a ventriloquist's dummy--a mouthpiece for Anne Sullivan, or, later, for the original editor of The Story of My Life, the socialist literary critic John Macy, who married Sullivan in 1905. And even for those who know better than to see Helen Keller as disability's Charlie McCarthy, her education and her astonishing facility with languages nevertheless raise troubling and...
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...president from January 20, 1977 to January 20, 1981. Jimmy Carter was considered to be an unsuccessful president. He had poor relations with Congress and with the media. Although he was considered to have been an unsuccessful president, did very well as a humanitarian. He founded the Carter Presidential Center to promote human rights and alleviate suffering across the globe. Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work. • Ross Perot is a transformational leader. Ross Perot was born in Texas on June 27, 1930. He is an American businessman who has ran for the U.S. presidency as independent candidate twice. He ran for president once in 1992 and once in 1996. He is one of the most successful third-party candidates in American history. Ross Perot worked for IBM, but later decided to work on his own. He formed the Electronic Data Systems in 1962. By 1968, Perot had become a millionaire. He eventually went on to become a...
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