This report studied current state of BiBi Lounge and Coffee shop located at 10067 Yonge st. Richmond Hill. The team aims to improve customer service time(customer service rate), reduce waiting time and as a result improve efficiency and customer satisfaction. The current system has 14.237 minutes per customer service time, average inter arrival rate is 9 tables per hour. The solutions recommended are: 1.eliminate the assumption that if there are people sitting on a table,the table is considered occupied 2: adding two servers. These two proposals are compared by calculating traffic intensity, average customer waiting time, average time customers spends in the system, average number of customers in system, average number of customers waiting …show more content…
Moreover, due to this drawback the service time for the upstairs area increases, which causes a longer waiting time for customers in the system. Another detail to note is the placement of the food and beverages served to the customers, as all equipment is on the ground floor of the restaurant, the time to bring the food or beverage to the second floor will add another constraint that lengthens the service time. BB coffee shop as an establishment has a main goal to serve as many customers as possible in order to increase their revenue, and so when the service time is extended then there could be a loss of customers, which could result in a loss in profits. Additionally, when a customer waits in line, it also affects the coffee shop as there is a delay cost for every customer who waits in a line, thus the longer a customer is waiting in line the more cost will increase. During peak hours, it is especially important to keep the service rate at a minimum, in order to optimize revenue, quality of service, and customer satisfaction. Furthermore, considering all the factors stated above, BB coffee shop would need to find a solution in order to improve the processes in their system. The team gathered arrival and service times from BB coffee shop to get a more accurate set of data within peak
The third issue was the process of the servers running the food. Since they are shorthanded on servers, the scheduled servers help each other out by delivering each other’s food which in turn takes away time away from their own guests.
Evaluation of the queues at each station revealed that Station 3 (Average Queue: 556.6, St Dev: 453.3) was more strained than Station 1 (Average Queue: 386.1, St Dev: 363.3). The firm understands that as queues Figure 2: Machine Utilization and Queues at Littlefield Technologies
With 11,000 plus coffeehouses worldwide, it is evident that their strategy of being passionate about their customer relation and their devotion to delivering a quality product goes beyond culture and language.
The combined service rate of the two pre-cooked food servers is 1.03 minutes. This is the average of the 35 samples taken.
Shuzworld aims to keep customer satisfaction at its highest. A customer approach that focuses on making the customer happy is of upmost importance. One way to achieve this is to ensure that customer wait time is kept to a minimum. Specific questions have been posed for concern; how many customers will be in the system; how many customers on average will be in line; and what the probability is of one being in line or being served? The company is looking at staffing each
Adopting a qualitative approach, this report provides an evaluation and critical analysis of the service process and service environment to evaluate the specialty coffee house chain, Starbucks Singapore. The report evaluates the purpose and value of the Starbucks servicescape design, a descriptive illustration of the service environment with a detailed and clear blue-printing of the service process
With respect to staffing, I found that I initially had trouble serving customers quickly enough during peak hours. Customers dissatisfied with their queue times often left the store, resulting in lost sales.
The company location is based at Penang, Butterworth Sunway Carnival Mall. The facilities such as free Wi-Fi, comfortable sofas and chairs, dimmed light and quiet relaxing music will help the customers to relax from the daily stresses and will differentiate Starbucks Coffee shop from incumbent competitors. To speed up the customer service, at least two employees will be servicing clients. Meanwhile one employee will be preparing the customer’s order, the other one will be taking care of the sales transaction.
It was believed that there was a service gap between Starbucks scores on key attributes and customer satisfaction. Furthermore, according to a poll, the speed of service delivery was the biggest concerns of customers. Overall, customers are pleased with the cleanliness, atmosphere, and product quality. However, the main problem was that waiting time was steadily increasing. I believe this one of the factors that caused the decline in satisfaction.
Starbucks faces a difficult and controversial management challenge. The company’s most recent market research has revealed unexpected findings implicating that Starbuck is not always meeting customer’s expectations in the area of customer satisfaction. The purpose of this memo is to analyze and provide recommendation on whether or not the company should go forth with a $40 million investment in additional labor in the stores. This $40 million investment is necessary in order to bring service time down to a three-minute interval and ultimately increase customer satisfaction. A marketing strategy and corresponding recommendation will be provided for your approval.
In conclusion, the Broadway Café faces a strong buying power and rivalry among competitors due to the large volume of shops offering the same products and services. The threat of new substitute products and alternatives is also high for the same reasons for buyer power. The Café also faces the threat of new entrants due to the lack of insignificant entry barriers. One upside is the relatively weak supplier power. The coffee industry is huge as stated above and vendors are more than ample. With this information we can conceive our business focus. The Broadway Café is best suit for a focused differentiation strategy. We plan to achieve
For our Gemba project, we decided to analyze the order fulfillment procedure for Cup of Joe, a coffee shop located in the Lennox Town Center. In order to capture the establishment’s peak hours of business, we primarily visited during the hours of 9:00am-12:00pm. We focused our attention on orders for baked goods, coffee, and espresso drinks, as these products are the shop’s main source of revenue and reputation. On several separate mornings we were able to observe an average of 125 orders over three hours (a takt time of 1.44 minutes). In the evening, there were often less than a dozen orders every hour. Since every order is slightly different, we have described the average order and the steps in the process that are consistent in almost every situation. We have identified multiple areas for improvement, which are referenced in the sections entitled analysis and recommendations.
Starbucks has discovered that they are not always meeting their customers’ expectations in the area of customer satisfaction. Starbucks has to come up with an action plan to address this issue, considering its significant correlation and impact to sales and profitability.
In general the coffeehouse industry in the United States was experiencing an increase in coffee consumption per capita due to the “Starbucks effect”. At this time Starbucks was operating approximately 20,000 stores in the United States and was living a fast expansion strategy worldwide.
People want to get their daily cup of great-tasting coffee in a relaxing atmosphere. Such customers vary in age, although most of clientele are college students and faculty. My market research shows that these are discerning customers that gravitate towards better tasting coffee. Furthermore, many college students consider coffee bars to be a convenient studying or meeting location, where they can read or meet with friends without the necessity to pay cover charges. For Café , this will provide a unique possibility for building a loyal client base. In addition, location of all three Bon! Café in city located to most visited places by young