...San Diego Community News Group http://sdnews.com/bookmark/26458953 About Us Community Links Sections Biz Directory Real Estate Deals Events Advertise Classifieds 4-Fun My Account SDNEWS.COM | La Jolla Village News | Beach & Bay Press | Peninsula Beacon | Visitors' Guides / Digital Archives articles search sign in PBPG looks to lead on De Anza Cove redevelopment by DAVE SCHWAB a month ago | 3810 views | 0 |2 | | Current Issue (Archives) Now that the De Anza Cove lawsuit has finally been settled and mobile home owners will be moving out, the question now becomes, what’s to become of that real estate? Pacific Beach planners have distinct ideas about what they’d like to see with the process involving an evolving plan determining how the site will be redeveloped. “Now that the lawsuit has settled, the Pacific Beach Planning Group (PBPG) is getting in front of the planning for the De Anza Cove,” said planning group chair Brian Curry. ”We have met with city planners and council district representatives and the first item to address is funding.” Curry said initial planning for redevelopment of the De Anza Cove site would involve District 2 Councilwoman Lorie Zapf asking the city to fund a three-year process: -Year 1, project start-up/public outreach; -Year 2, public outreach/start environmental impact report (EIR); and Instagram #sdnewsgroup Open publication - Free publishing Trending Mission Beach requests that cyclists slow...
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...Issues at Kudler Fine Foods Issues and problems exist in every workplace. According to DifferenceBetween.net, on a corporate level, “(an issue is something that can be handled behind closed doors, impacting no one but the people of highest authority in the situation)” (Difference Between Issue and Problem, para. 4). On the other hand, a problem “(involves information that must be released, because there will be cause to involve employees, or citizens, in the solution to the problem)” (Difference Between Issue and Problem, para. 4). It is imperative to understand the difference between the two because issues need to be identified and resolved before they develop into problems. Two issues at Kudler Fine Foods stand out to me the most. First, Kathy, the owner, tries to take on too much responsibility at the stores. She is in charge of inventory, hiring, firing, financials, marketing, etc. Not only is it very difficult for her to keep up with everything in each of her three stores, she is putting herself in the position to be exhausted, and even worse, there is the possibility of getting herself sick. Unfortunately, she cannot afford to fall ill because there is no one else to step up and take over. Although she pays for these “specialty” employees, she has not trained anyone for the tasks she currently handles (University of Phoenix, 2003, p. 5). She needs to have a backup or contingency plan in place because not everything always goes as planned. If the day comes that she expands...
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...upscale food store specializing in the very best imported and domestic fare. They currently have three locations in the San Diego area: La Jolla, Encinitas, and Del Mar. Each store is in a high profile area with stores up to 8,000 square feet. Kudler at each location carries bakery and pastry products, fresh produce, fresh meat & seafood, condiments and packaged foods, and cheese and specialty dairy products. Kudler’s mission is to offer the customer a pleasing and delightful shopping experience. Kudler’s Fine Food’s “shops the world” and only purchases the finest quality of products. Kudler Fine Foods is the purveyor of choice for customers aspiring to purchase the finest epicurean delights. They carry over 250 types of gourmet cheeses from 21 countries, over 350 fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices, the meat and seafood are procured from certified organic producers, and each of our stores has its own modern European Style Bakery. History Kudler was created in 1998 by Kathy Kudler, a defense contractor who found enjoyment in gourmet cooking. Kathy was looking for an outlet to relieve stress; once her passion took off she realized the market for a fine foods store. Within the nine months of the first store opening Kudler’s Fine Foods in La Jolla was at a break-even point and was profitable with in the year. The success of the first La Jolla Kudler’s Fine foods allowed another store to be opened in 2000 in Del Mar, and in 2003 a third store in Encinitas. Importance of Market...
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...was established in 1998 by Kathy Kudler, and since then she has 3 stores which all are located in California (La Jolla, Del Mar, and Encinitas). KFF is a small organization with a very oriented customer target, no direct competition around the stores, a great variety of products, and one good location store (La Jolla). Kathy Kudler pretends to continue expanding her business throughout California, although, KFF has been confronting some difficulties lately which are preventing to grow. They are due some lack of strategic plan and not effective management. Furthermore, the company has geographic limitations, high payroll, and elevated cost of inventories for perishable products. Besides all problems cited, the biggest issue in this company is the concentration of administrative tasks held by Kudler such as ordering and selecting products, running to the cash register, hiring and firing employees, and sometimes even stocking the shelves. Consequently, in order to analyze the issues of her organizations, she spends much time doing a job that could be done by a manager. Another issue that is evident in KFF is the geographic limitations which prevent the increase financial chances. The stores (La Jolla and Del Mar) are not apart from each other (just 35 minutes on the freeway) considering that specific market; thus, sometimes they compete by themselves. Despite La Jolla continues being profitable, Del Mar hasn’t been able...
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...increase not decries because college student are smarter and understand better then school students therefore, college student should be more responsible than school student. We should keep that in our mind volunteering allows us to use multiple means, whether monetary or physical contribution to provide facilities for people and animals. The main purpose of going to college is learning and get able to find a path for your life. By going to college your education will be limited in books. You will not get chance to learn about the real life, but if you volunteer to your community you can learn about yourself you can get chance to discover your hidden talent. According to students.ucsd.edu Dr. La Jolla said, “Volunteers discover hidden talents that may change your view on your self-worth” (Jolla). Many of people don’t have any idea about what they know and about their ability. When they go for volunteering they can...
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...together. Make the internal network configuration in each store a WLAN, and add VOIP to the multi-store network. * Define which store will house the central servers. * Design the network to be expandable beyond the existing stores. The current specifics of the setup is as follows. La Jolla Store : 100baseT environment, IBM Blade System C3000 running UNIX, Corporate SAP ERP SW, 10 TB NAS Backup, 5KVA APD UPS for power backup, Retail Operations entail NCR RealPOS 82XRT POS Terminals, Management 19 Dell Vostro Computers and 3 HP networked Printers. 2 Cisco routers and firewalls, Inter-store Network, 25 mb Ethernet. 19 VOIP Phones Del Mar/Encinitas Store : 100baseT environment, IBM Blade System C3000 running UNIX, 10 TB NAS Backup, 5KVA APD UPS for power backup, Retail Operations entail NCR RealPOS 82XRT POS Terminals, Management 6 Dell Vostro Computers and 1 HP Laserjet Printers. 2 Cisco routers and firewalls, Inter-store Network, 25 mb Ethernet. 6 VOIP phones per store. La Jolla Diagram : Del Mar, Encinitas Stores (same set up) I find no current issues with the hardware, although I do believe software can be a small issue. The corporate SAP ERP SW software, should be available to the management at the other three stores as well. The standards that would apply to this system and the next system will of course be IEEE 802x depending on if the company has or will invest in developing their own standards. For the purpose of the project the hardware is adequate...
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...INDP, Part 4 NTC/362 INDP, Part 4 Kudler Fine Foods is a small network considering that it spans across only three locations. Currently the network is utilizing a dedicated T3 connection between the stores with the La Jolla facility hosting the central servers. Each facility will have two firewalls, one for the intranet and one for the internet. An HP Blade Server model c3000 will be installed at each facility and will serve as the print/file server, communications, email, storage and web server. In addition to the Blade Server system La Jolla will also have a 10TB NAS to maintain records of all system transactions across the network. Operating on the network will be 31 computers, of these computers 13 will belong to the corporate admin and the remaining 18 will be utilized by the local store management. An APC Smart UPS rated at 5000va will be installed in each of the three server rooms. Telephonic communications will be made available using VOIP. La Jolla will have 19 total VOIP phones in order to accommodate the number of corporate administrators, the Del Mar and Encinitas facilities will only have 6 VOIP phones. The standards being applied to this project are LAN, WAN, Wireless, and VOIP. A LAN or local area network is created when multiple computers or devices are connected as a network providing services and applications within a common structure such as a single business, campus or region. A LAN is generally governed by the organization by an administrator who controls...
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...The software that Kudler Fine Foods Frequent Shopper Program (KFFFSP) will be using will have different parts to it; those will be the customer site, mobile site/store, and the employee side of the Frequent Shopper Program (FSP). These websites will be made with Concrete5 which is an open source Content Management System. The reason KFF will be using Concrete5 will be to save time and cost of the development of the FSP websites. This makes it easy for KFF to do the website in house and not have to contact the websites out. In this day and age there is no point to hard code anything because more than likely it has been made already before. First part of the software will be the databases use to keep all the shoppers information. These databases will made with MySQL and the sites the KFFFSP will use will use Php to call the information from the databases. This will be the customer site and mobile site/store the employee side of the FSP will be made in to the check-out process. The hardware for the FSP will run with new computer check-out system at all the store. The hosting of the websites will be done the head office of Kudler Fine Foods (KFF) the La Jolla office. One server will be at the La Jolla office and a backup server will be at the Del Mar Store office. This means KFF will have a small IT team at the Del Mar Store to make sure the backup server will be up and running if needed. The layout of the network is in the diagram above. The start of the diagram is the databases...
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...The software that Kudler Fine Foods Frequent Shopper Program (KFFFSP) will be using will have different parts to it; those will be the customer site, mobile site/store, and the employee side of the Frequent Shopper Program (FSP). These websites will be made with Concrete5 which is an open source Content Management System. The reason KFF will be using Concrete5 will be to save time and cost of the development of the FSP websites. This makes it easy for KFF to do the website in house and not have to contact the websites out. In this day and age there is no point to hard code anything because more than likely it has been made already before. First part of the software will be the databases use to keep all the shoppers information. These databases will made with MySQL and the sites the KFFFSP will use will use Php to call the information from the databases. This will be the customer site and mobile site/store the employee side of the FSP will be made in to the check-out process. The hardware for the FSP will run with new computer check-out system at all the store. The hosting of the websites will be done the head office of Kudler Fine Foods (KFF) the La Jolla office. One server will be at the La Jolla office and a backup server will be at the Del Mar Store office. This means KFF will have a small IT team at the Del Mar Store to make sure the backup server will be up and running if needed. The layout of the network is in the diagram above. The start of the diagram is the databases...
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...Service Request SR-kf-013 Finalized Michelle Coll, Stephen Gundrum, Christoper A Kane Brink, Sabrina Ruiz, Devan Winget BSA/375 March 31, 2014 Ramana Metlapalli Service Request SR-kf-013 Finalized Kudler Fine Foods Kudler Fine Foods (KFF) is looking to develop a system to track customer purchases in order to identify purchasing behavior patterns. They hope to use the information gathered to refine the company's processes and offerings to best satisfy the needs of their valued customers. Management has decided to approach this initiative is through the implementation of a frequent shopper program. Traditional programs of this sort would not begin to satisfy the sophisticated senses of Kudler's elite customer base; as a result, a decision has been made to partner with a loyalty points program that will provide rewards points to customers that can be redeemed for high-end gifts and upgrades. System Requirements Gathering During the initial stage of development, it is imperative to gather enough information to be able to accurately describe the system requirements. The first step is to determine the scope of the project based upon the objective outlined in the request. The next step would be to identify those that have a vested interest in the proposed new system. Once this information is known the project can be divided into modules and tasks can be assigned. Scope The deliverable for this project is to create a business/systems requirement document for the development...
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...variety of spirits and at prices that will meet any budget. While we are proud of our wide selection, we certainly don’t want our customers to be intimidated, so each of our stores has a Wine Steward who will be more than happy to assist you in making your selection. We also hold monthly wine appreciation classes so you can learn the nuances of our wines LA JOLLA, CA. -- Kudler Fine Foods announced plans to create a frequent shopper program for their three stores in Southern California. read more » LA JOLLA, CA. -- Kudler Fine Foods announced plans to create a frequent shopper program for their three stores in Southern California. read more » Customers that participate in the program will receive news about store events, featured products and sales. In addition, they will be given excluxive offers on select merchandise and discounts on cooking and wine classes. Owner Kathy Kudler says, "We believe this will be a huge benefit to our most loyal customers. ABOUT KUDLER FINE FOODS - Who we are Kudler Fine Foods is a local upscale specialty food store located in the San Diego metropolitan area. We have three locations (La Jolla, Del Mar and Encinitas). Each store has approximately 8,000 square feet of retail space located in a fashionable shopping center. We have the very best domestic and imported fare at every location. Visit one of our locations and browse our fine selection of: * Bakery and Pastry Products * Fresh Produce * Fresh Meat & Seafood * Condiments...
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...Week 5 Individual Final Assignment Galo Figueroa NTC / 362 October 26th, 2017 Eric Winch Week 5 Individual Final Assignment I will begin by explaining the network’s current characteristics and components. KFF is comprised of three geographic locations in San Diego County, California. Their home office is located in La Jolla. The two other locations are in Del Mar and Encinitas. They have an OC 1 SONET using a T3 dedicated line connecting all three stores. This requires a fiber optic physical connection between stores since a T3 is equivalent to 28 T1 lines. This dedicated network is leased from the ISP and is guaranteed a continuous uninterrupted connection. This type of connection allows for a total of about 44736 Kbps and has 672 channels. KFF is using a 25Mbps connection to the internet. All three KFF locations are using a linear bus topology using 100base T Ethernet, which means that Ethernet is used and allows for data transfer rates of up to 100Mbps. The file server, workstations and all equipment previously mentioned are connected to a linear cable. This type of LAN network has disadvantages that outweigh the advantages. One major disadvantage is that the entire network is disabled if there is a break in the main cable, and locating the break can prove to be difficult. Another disadvantage is that the more devices are added, the less efficient it becomes. This outdated design broadcasts data which uses up important bandwidth that can be used for better purposes...
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...is also presented with a proviso of management action and implementation. The problem for KFF is that they have stopped doing the organizational and customer oriented stategies that made them successful when the company started. In order to accomplish this, ownership can make a commitment in the areas of needs assessment, advertising, and customer interaction for all future markets over the next year. Research for the first location of Kudler Fine Foods began with a needs assessment. Ms. Kudler opened her first store in 1998 in La Jolla, California. This location met the owner’s initial needs assessment. La Jolla’s population was 44,424 and growing. The average median house price is just over $2 million (University of Phoenix, 2007). Ms. Kudler chose her first location well. It has supported the other two stores opened to date. Neither the Del Mar nor Encinitas stores have similar demographics to La Jolla. The populations and the household incomes appear to be much smaller in the newer locations. This may be part of the reason that the last two stores are approximately break-even at best according to the simulation “Del Mar’s median household income in 2000 was $98,257 with a population of 4,389 and the second store was just above break-even” (University of Phoenix, 2007). Based on Kudler Fine Foods, “Encinitas’ average household income is just over $75,000 and has a population base of just over 50,000 people” (University of Phoenix, 2007). A needs assessment...
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...Running head: KUDLER FINE FOODS: HR FOCUS Kudler Fine Foods: HR Focus Name School Business Systems II 502 Instructor Date Kudler Fine Foods: HR Focus Kudler Fine Foods is owned and operated by Kathy Kudler. It is a local upscale specialty food store that provides high quality domestic and imported foods. In the San Diego metropolitan area, the company has three locations; in La Jolla, Del Mar, and Encinitas. La Jolla is the Kudler Fine Foods headquarters. With Kudler’s current growth, the store is in need for an upgrade to their Human Resources (HR) management system (Apollo Group Inc, 2012). To get an idea as to what Kudler Fine Foods requires in a new HR system, an understanding of the store chain’s current system will be needed. For Kudler’s payroll system, the store uses Quick Books and outsources the processing of payroll to Intuit. Intuit tracks each employee’s information in their own database, which includes (Apollo Group Inc, 2012): * Personal information, such as name, address, marital status, birth date, etc. * Pay rate * Personal exemptions for tax purposes * Hire date * Seniority date (which is sometimes different than the hire date) * Organizational information (store for budget purposes, manager’s name, etc.) If there are any changes that are required of an employee’s records, the employee’s supervisor must submit a form in writing, where an accounting clerk with Intuit can enter the changes in their system. The accounting...
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...Team B - Integrative Network Design Project Jacob Acuna, Susan Granata, David Teague University of Phoenix - NTC/362 Ronald Bowell October 26, 2015 Page Break Kudler Fine Foods is a purveyor of specialty and gourmet foods in the San Diego, CA. area. They currently have three locations: the home office in La Jolla, CA., and two store locations in Del Mar, CA. and Encinitas, CA. Kudler is in need of a new network design and topology that will address multiple issues faced in a growing enterprise. The new network must incorporate a new network topology to reduce downtime and ensure that functionality will remain if one or two devices are down. In addition, a VoIP system must be installed over the network, along with an internal WLAN in each store. The WAN will tie all three stores together to increase collaboration and network file sharing, and the new network must be easily scalable to support growth of the company and integration of future stores. Of utmost priority is the security of the network. The sensitive nature of credit card processing makes Kudler Fine Foods a prime victim for cyber threats, and therefore policies must be put in place to protect the customer and employee data. Network Characteristics and Components The current network characteristics and components for the Del Mar store starts with a small office scenario that is accompanied by six Dell Vostro computers for management. All six computers are running Windows 7 and all...
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