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ORGANIZATION
o McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurant, serving around 68 million customers daily in 119 countries. o The business began in 1940, with a restaurant opened by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino, California. o McDonald's operates over 31,000 restaurants worldwide, employing more than 1.5 million people and serve 58 million customers each day.
chicken, French fries, breakfast items, soft drinks, shakes and desserts.
McDonald s in India
y McDonald s entered India in 1996. y McDonald s India has a joint venture with Connaught Plaza Restaurants and Hard Castle Restaurants. y Connaught Plaza Restaurants manages operations in North India whereas Hard Castle Restaurants operates restaurants in Western India.
BUSINESS MODEL
y McDonald's Corporation earns revenue as an investor in properties, a franchiser of restaurants, and an operator of restaurants. y Approximately 15% of McDonald's restaurants are owned and operated by McDonald's Corporation directly. The remainder are operated by others through a variety of franchise agreements and joint ventures. y The McDonald's Corporation's Business model is slightly different from that of most other fast-food chains. y In addition to ordinary franchise fees and marketing fees, which are calculated as a percentage of sales, McDonald's may also collect rent, which may also be calculated on the basis of sales.
Head office
Regional Office
Branch Office
MANAGEMENT
At restaurant level: 1) General Manager 2) Restaurant Manager 3) 1st Assistant Manager 4) 2nd Assistant Manager 5) Shift Running Manager 6) Floor Manager 7) Staff Training Crew 8) Crew Members
Information flow
Frontline employees
TECHNOLOGY
y McDonald's Corp. has helped revolutionize the way
restaurants use technology, dating back to founder Ray Kroc's fascination with serving burgers and fries in a matter of minutes.
y Throughout the years, their fascination with advancing
their company technology wise has become a great obsession for the IT department.
y In the 1970's, due to their outstanding lead and large
burger chains which lead the industry, they were able to move from cash registers to completely install computerized points-of-sale (POS).
advanced in the present times when their POS are all touch screen, in some restaurants, are also self serving devices.
hotspots in most of their restaurants globally. This model is made to introduce more young and tech-people into the restaurants creating some what of a starbucks feel, which by the way is free.
y The electronic payment model is made to quicken the ordering and payment of food, putting in a system that shortens the processing time, preparation time and payment. y Did you know, McDonalds uses a 100% biodiesel Technology. Doing this has helped reduce carbon emissions with the truck making the deliveries. y To make this processes a reality, Keystone Foods who supply McDonalds with there meat worked very carefully with a fuel manufacturer in the UK, which they came up with the idea of using biodiesel to reduce there CO2 emissions per year. The B100(the biodiesel fuel used) has been adapted to make this possible.
training tool for their new recruit staff in over 3,000 of their restaurants.
y These gaming systems train the recruits and grade
them on their performance, in which they can compare with other colleagues and view their own progress.
y This new usage of technology allow McDonald's to use
less paper and have their employees enjoy their on the job learning experience.
ACS(Automated commercial system). This contract renewed in January 2010, by the Chief Technology Officer of McDonald's, for another five years.
including mainframe and midrange server support, networking operations and engineering and data center facilities management.
executive and security administration, desktop support and messaging services, as well as end-to-end application performance monitoring service.
core technology stacks and will support development, testing and quality assurance processes.
employee information, contact information, personal information, brief history of the person as soon as they were employed initially.
the expenditure for that year and all the years that McDonalds have been operational.
y They would also have some details about who supplies
there meat bread and other resources need to produce there burgers. This would specifically include the amounts per shipment and how much has been used and if there are wastes or extras.
Q) Who is responsible for the database? How do managers get reports? What type of reports?
The database administrator is in charge of the
person s performance, or a group of people s performance or even a report on the amount of people that work overtime and clock in for longer hours.
down specific detailed information that may be needed for a specific department.
Suggestions
y Provide access to information form any where any time. y Head office management and regional office