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ACCREDITED BY NAAC WITH ‘A’ GRADE
BHARTI VIDYAPEETH UNIVERSITY
PUNE
A PROJECT REPORT ON McDonald’s
‘’Customer dealing &service management’’
PROJECT GUIDE: Mr. VIJAY PHALKE
SUBMITED BY:
KULDEEP BALASAHEB LAMKANE
BBA (IB), 3RD YEAR
ROLL NO. 80
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I felt honored to be a part of it as a summer trainee. This project on
“McDonald’s” would have been not possible without help of
Mr.Sachin Tambe, Mr.Daji Dore & some people. Each has
contributed views, fact, experience, & personal support &
encouraged me during the training.
Finally, I wish to thanks Prof. VIJAY PHALKE I.M.E.D PUNE.
For his support to complete my summer training in McDonald’s.
KULDEEP BALASAHEB LAMKANE
BBA 3rd Year
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(Re-Accredited By NACC with ‘A’ Grade)
BHARTI VIDYAPEETH DEEMED UNIVERSITY, PUNE
INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that Mr. Kuldeep Balasaheb Lamkane is a bonafide student of
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Programme of the University in this
institute for the year 2011-2015.
As a part of the University curriculum, the student has completed the project
report titled Study on customer dealing & service management.
The project report is prepared by the student under the guidance of
Prof. Vijay Phalke Prof. Shivali Ingawale Dr. Sachin S. Vernekar
(Project Guide) (Class Coordinator) (Director IMED, Pune)
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CONTENT LIST
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INDEX
Page no.
1. Executive Summary 5
2. McDonald’s Background 7 3. International Operation 9
4. McDonald’s Strategy & Structure 12 5. Product Development & Marketing 16
6. SWOT Analysis of McDonald’s 19
7. McDonald’s in India 21 8. Goals & Objectives of McDonald’s 22
9. Customer Service & Importance 24 10. The McDonald’s Promise & Location Strategy 27
11. McDonald’s SRO 36 12. Observation &Learning 39
13. Suggestion 40 14. Conclusion 41
15. Questionnaires 42 16. Bibliography 48
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Executive Summary
McDonald’s Corporation is a “Centralized, International company”, which competes
in the fast food industry supplying hamburgers, French fries and other consumable
items using standardization, heavy expansion and branding as the driving force.
McDonald’s operates in over 121 countries and has over 30,000 restaurants worldwide.
McDonald’s utilized an intense, rapid expansion into foreign countries through
three primary methods, franchising, company owned restaurants, and joint ventures.
With the majority of international restaurants stemming from franchising agreements,
McDonald’s management relied on this method to aid in the acceptance of a new style
of eating into unfamiliar markets. With minimal risk and maximum gains, franchising
continues to contribute heavily to McDonald’s international success.
With a centralized, international structure, McDonald’s keeps a tight grasp on
operations, cost and quality. With an ethnocentric management
strategy, McDonald’s relies on domestic based logic and attitudes and transfers them to
their international outlets and restaurants.
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In order to control its overseas operation, McDonald’s uses a combination of two
approaches. The majority of control would fall under the rules approach, meaning that
control lies with headquarters creating procedures and policies for the subsidiaries to
follow. However, there is also a little of the cultural approach that has
surfaced and is being utilized judging by the adaptation that has occurred in some of the
overseas restaurants. This has occurred even with the tight internalized norms that are
constantly presented and enforced by headquarters.
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McDonald’s Background
With operations in over 121 countries and over 30,000 restaurants around the
globe, McDonald’s Corporation is the largest fast food service and supplier in the
world. To serve all of the their customers and demonstrate the incredible size of the
company, McDonald’s has more than one and a half million employees and serves more
than ninety-six percent of the world’s population at least once a year. McDonald’s
operates in the fast food industry and its core product lines include hamburgers and
French fries, but the chain also sells chicken, salads, and fish products among others.
Since the first restaurant operations in the early nineteen fifties, McDonald’s has
grown at an incredible pace through an internal philosophy of “expand at all costs.”
What this philosophy means is open as many stores as possible as fast as possible. At
the peak of the company’s growth, this rapid pace had a new McDonald’s outlet
opening every four hours every day of the year. Management instilled the idea that as
more restaurant locations are opened the more customers will be served, and this leads
to higher profits that would be realized across the board. Since the beginning,
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this intense expansion plan has been successful, both in the domestic and
foreign markets abroad.
However, recently there have been issues developing with saturation across the globe
that have had an impact on sales, which will be discussed later in the paper.
The company has always utilized four major principles throughout its history to
expand rapidly, increase sales and remain the market leader. By leveraging their
enormous cash flow, brand power, real estate and customer spending habits,
McDonald’s has not only emerged as the world-wide leader, it has also changed the
way the world eats. As the means to rapid expansion are not the focus of this paper,
altering the eating habits around the world represent a very significant topic and will
also be addressed later in the paper.
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International Operation
McDonald’s first international expansion occurred in 1967 when the company opened
in Canada. The company’s international division was formed shortly after in 1969 and
has continuously grown since. Over the years, the international section of the
McDonald’s Corporation has become increasingly more important to the company’s
overall success. As of this past year, non-US based restaurants account for over half of
the company’s $40 billion in revenues . Even more critical than the amount of sales to
the company is the amount of profits of the overseas operations. Foreign restaurants
now account for about 60% of McDonald’s total profits. The difference between
revenues and profits of international operations is credited to McDonald’s immense
market share in off shore outlets. Currently, McDonald’s is the market leader in 96% of
the markets they do business in around the world and it is very common for
McDonald’s to hold over 50% of the fast food market in foreign markets. Unlike the
U.S., competitors in the past have not cut into McDonald’s market share as easily in
foreign markets, although that is beginning to change.
There are a few major reasons why McDonald’s not only chose to invest overseas
originally, but also continuously since. In the last ten years, almost 90% of McDonalds’
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expansion occurred in countries other than the United States. During that time, the
1990’s saw an increase in international units from 3,600 in 1991 to more than 11,000 by
1998, largely in Japan, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Australia, and France.
Additionally, the number of international countries nearly doubled from 59 in 1991 to
114 in 1998 . The rationale behind these important decisions stemmed foremost from
the increasing amount of saturation that had evolved in the United States. This
saturation was in the past, and is currently, forcing McDonald’s to slash prices and as a
result profits in its domestic market. To counter this trend, international restaurants
were franchised and invested in. As was mentioned earlier, foreign markets are
extremely more profitable for McDonald’s than U.S. operations. McDonald’s detected
this trend early as an opportunity through marketing research and the idea of utilizing
the heavily populated areas of focus to cut costs and increase profits. Second,
expansion in the U.S. has been taking place for the last 45 years, where it has only been
occurring heavily overseas for about 20 years, so there is more business opportunity.
McDonald’s serves over 43 million people a day, but that is still less than one percent
of the world’s population, so you can see how McDonald’s management could be so
optimistic.
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International Expansion Through Franchising
Now that the international operations have been conveyed as an increasingly
important part of McDonald’s overall sales, it is vital to analyze how
McDonald’s entered into the foreign markets. McDonald’s entered into the
international markets utilizing three methods; franchising, joint ventures and
company owned outlets. Where McDonald’s had a choice, franchising was
not only favored, it dominated how the company expanded. Currently, 73%
of all McDonald’s restaurants across the globe are franchised16. When
entering into some of the countries, McDonald’s had to abandon its
philosophy of franchising and use the other methods. For instance, when
McDonald’s first entered into Mexico, the government did not allow
franchising from foreign countries. To work around this, McDonald’s
utilized company owned restaurants to enter the market until the laws
changed. In 1990, when the legislation went through legalizing franchising,
McDonald’s Corporation sold the company owned outlets to franchisees.
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McDonalds Strategy & Structure
McDonald’s Strategy :-
McDonald’s is a “centralized, International Division” company composed of
franchisees and joint venture partners. McDonald’s utilizes a broad approach and
initially grew overseas by relying on transferring new products, processes, and
strategies from the United States to less developed markets. The idea has always been
to transfer the American tradition of fast food to other counties using the same real
estate principles, cost advantages, and new technologies that were so successful in the
U.S. McDonald’s has always exploited the corporate company knowledge and
transported and diffused it to foreign markets. Starting with the concrete supplier chain,
all the way down to the store design and implementation, differentiation is not
encouraged nor is it allowed.
With an Ethnocentric mentality, McDonald’s has constantly based the company’s
international operations on “home-grown” ideas and concepts. Corporate first places
the focus the domestic market, and then filters the functions to the overseas operations.
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Company Control and Coordination
In order to control the thousands of franchises in the system, McDonald’s corporate
utilizes a combination of methods. Both the Rules Approach and the Cultural Approach
are applied by management in order to ensure that the international outlets maximize
their potential without disrupting the overall corporate plan. The reason for the
combination of control approaches stems from the nature of how the McDonald’s
system was built. By relying and building around franchising, a fine line has to be
drawn between keeping the franchises motivated and accomplishing the company
objectives.
The elements of the Rules approach are very evident when magnifying the
requirements of the franchisees. Management requires continuous lines of reports and
paperwork to follow every move of the franchises. The extent of the requirements can
be seen in the following example. The McDonald’s operation-and-training manual is a
roughly seven hundred and fifty-page document that weighs about four pounds. It is
known throughout the company as “the Bible” and contains precise instructions
on how various appliances should be used, how each item on the menu
should look, and how employees should greet the customers. An example of
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the extent of detail that is contained in the manual are hamburgers are always to be
placed on the grill in six neat rows; French fries have to be exactly 0.28 inches thick.
The regimentation and standardization of McDonald’s restaurants determines exactly
how every task is done and imposes rules about pace, quality and technique. The
McDonald’s Corporation insists that its operators follow directives on food preparation,
purchasing, store design and countless other minute details. Operators who disobey
these rules can lose their franchises and this has occurred in the past.
Through the years, McDonald’s management has realized that in the fast food industry,
more freedom is needed in order to prosper in foreign countries. There are two major
business functions that are dictated by the country’s local influence and symbolize the
Cultural Approach freedom; product development and marketing. These functions are
not only locally developed they are operational away from headquarters and are
represented in McDonald’s structure chart accordingly . By allowing the foreign
markets the autonomy to develop and market geographical specific menu items,
management is not compromising or deviating from internalized company norms or
standards. Instead, they are allowing for local adaptation that will not only benefit the
Franchise, but the corporation as well.
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Product Development And Marketing
Product development and marketing can and do occur at a local level in
McDonald’s international countries. These are the only two major business
functions that McDonald’s Corporate allows some flexibility by deviating
from the tight grasp that they hold over international restaurants. Now,
that is not to say that the countries and local markets have complete
freedom to add to the menu and promote their products how they wish.
McDonald’s prides itself in the consistency of its products and taste around
the world and would not allow complete autonomy. Instead, it means that
some of the lengthy, tedious, and idea crushing control that corporate
normally holds over its franchises is lifted slightly and can occur at the
country level as opposed to corporate level . To look at the impact this has
on the international outlets, a closer look at product development and
marketing will each be analyzed.
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Each local country has the autonomy and authority to develop its own products to
address unique tastes that their consumers have. It is the sole responsibility of the
individual country to complete the marketing research and develop new menu items.
Once that has occurred, the information is then studied and approved or rejected by the
corporate offices depending on the extent of favorable data available. Where there is
limited involvement from corporate in the development process, there is still heavy
involvement in the acceptance process. This involvement from corporate is only
increasing, as the international markets become more important to McDonald’s overall
business. However, according to Den Fujita, President of McDonald’s Japan, when
McDonald’s first entered Japan, corporate was relatively accommodating to the new
menu items that were presented to them, and as a result, acceptance in Japan was
expedited .
There are many examples of item adjustments that have been made around the
world over the years to address local tastes and preferences . The menu changes
resulted from many different reasons such as cultural, religious, taste preferences and
translation reasons. Some specific examples are in India, there are no beef items served
throughout the country, so McDonald’s added the “Maharaja Mac”, a lamb version of
the standard “Big Mac”. Other examples include Germany, where McDonald’s
serves beer with meals and in Cyprus, the McNistisima menu was adopted
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for the lent period between Easter and Christmas and consisted of veggie burgers,
country potatoes, and shrimp and spicy rolls. Occasionally, new local menu items
might not seem like a logical choice for a country and are protested accordingly like
when McDonald’s was going to recently add meat bowls over rice. Heavy protesting
occurred until the launch of the items. However, on the first day the bowls were
available, they sold out entirely proving that local marketing research and flexibility can
benefit the company
The marketing of international restaurants is handled with the same process as
product development. Locally, the countries develop and test market ideas that differ
from the corporate worldwide message. Any differences in the core message are then
presented to the corporate office for approval. Marketing overseas, like product
development, is mostly handled away from the corporate office. There are many
reasons why the core marketing message would change, including; translation reasons,
cultural differences, customer target differences and the fact that the product itself being
marketed might not even exist in the company’s core message. A specific example of a
country differing the marketing message from corporate took place in different
countries that use the metric system. Instead of calling their burger the “Quarter
Pounder”, the European countries market their burger as either the “Royal Hamburger”
or the “Burger Royal.”
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SWOT Analysis Of McDonald’s
A SWOT analysis of McDonald’s is an integral part of a marketing plan and can also be
part of a business plan.
There are two factors under which product exist.
Internal factors
o Strength
o Weakness
External factors
o Opportunities
o Threat
Strength:
Strong group backing
Best training and skill development programs for the management
Popular brand market leader
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Easily available in nominal prices
Most attraction for kids
Weakness:
Low market penetration in rural areas.
Opportunities:
Increase of advertisement makes new customer in the market.
Kids attraction
Worldwide independent ownership
Threats:
Challenges: A couple of the biggest challenges are maintaining a positive and
proactive approach and connecting to the evolving consumer
Newly open fast food chains are giving a good competition
As being independent franchisers difficult to maintain its brand name position.\
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McDonald’s in India
McDonald's entered India in1996 through joint ventures with two Indian entities,
hard castle restaurant pvt. Ltd.
The company operates about 160 restaurants in India.
It developed a special menu with vegetarian selections to suit Indian taste and
preferences.
In addition they have re-formulated some of their products using spices favored
by Indians.
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Goals & Objective Of McDonald’s
GOALS
The goal for McDonalds is to successfully communicate their new healthy alternatives.
After the movie “Supersize me” McDonalds experienced a lot of critique and has
therefore established a new strategy.
OBJECTIVES
Awareness objective: - Increase awareness amongst the publics with the aim of
knowing that McDonalds offers healthier alternatives. Create awareness amongst
families with kids under 15 years old. (increase of 20 % within a year)
Acceptance objective:- Create a smooth transition when trying to increase
positive attitude towards the healthier new alternatives.
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Action objective:-
- Opinion action: to have the customers who are fond of the changes spread the
word
- Behavior: To change the behavior of existing customers to also buy the new
options, and to attract new customers who are interested in the new products.
Most people can find a McDonald's in any metropolitan city anywhere in the world.
McDonald's global success can be attributed to company objectives. When consumers
are aware of McDonald's objectives, they better understood the value of such a large,
global franchise in helping people find employment and in offering a cheap, sustainable
product to their consumers.
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Customer service
McDonald's India provides fast, friendly service the hallmark of
McDonald’s, which sets its restaurants Apart from others. At
McDonald's, the customer always comes first.
Every employee strives to provide 100 present customer satisfaction
for every customer every visit. This includes friendly and attentive
Service, accuracy in order taking, and anticipation of customer's needs
such as napkins or straws.
McDonald’s promise is “With a sense of fun and youthful spirit, we
will proudly serve an exceptional McDonald’s eating experience
that makes all people feel special and makes them smile – ever
Customer, every time.”
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McDonald’s prides itself on delivering only the highest level of quality,
service and cleanliness to all of its customers in each and every
restaurant.
The key to our continued success is continually monitoring and acting on
the feedback given to us by our customers.
We strive to be a progressive market leader and we can only stay ahead of
the rest by listening to the most important ambassadors of our brand.
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Importance of customer service
When used properly complaints can help us fine-tune our business and
meet our customers’ needs. It is these insights that help the Company
to keep moving forward.
Equally important is to hear and effectively manage complaints from
customers.
If the Company is not seen to be dealing with poor experiences then
disgruntled customers will vote with their feet and we will lose their
business.
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The McDonald’s Promise
QUALITY, SERVICE, CLEANLINESS & VALUE
When asked to explain McDonald's success, founder Ray Kroc used to say,
"We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else."
Kroc was a perfectionist. From the day he opened his first restaurant, he
vowed to give his customers high quality products, served quickly --and with
a smile, in a clean and pleasant environment, and all at a fair price. Quality,
Service, Cleanliness and Value (QSC&V) became the philosophy that drove
McDonald's business.
QUALITY
McDonald's India serves only the highest quality products. The
attention to food quality started long before the first restaurant opened.
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McDonald's India has established close relationships with local
suppliers who provide McDonald's with the highest quality, freshest
ingredients to make its products.
All suppliers adhere to Indian government regulations on food, health
and hygiene while continuously maintaining McDonald's own
recognized standards. McDonald's has established an extensive "cold
chain “distribution system in India to ensure that the products, which
arrive at the restaurant from suppliers all over India, are absolutely
fresh. In the restaurants, products and supplies are used on a "first-in,
first-out" basis to ensure freshness. All McDonald's products are
prepared using modern, state-of-the-art cooking equipment to ensure
quality and safety.
SERVICE
McDonald's India provides fast, friendly service the hallmark of
McDonald’s, which sets its restaurants apart from others. At McDonald's,
the customer always comes first. Every employee strives to provide 100
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present customer satisfaction for every customer every visit. This includes
friendly and attentive service, accuracy in order taking, and anticipation of
customer's needs --such as napkins or straws. The McDonald’s promise is
“With a sense of fun and youthful spirit, we will proudly serve an
exceptional McDonald’s eating experience that makes all people feel
special and makes them smile – every customer, every time.”
CLEANLINESS
McDonald's restaurants provide a clean, comfortable environment
especially suited for families. McDonald's stringent cleaning standards
ensure that all tables, seating, highchairs and trays are sanitized several
times each hour. The attention to cleanliness extends from the lobby to
the kitchen to the sidewalk and immediate areas outside the restaurant.
In addition to urging customers to dispose of their litter properly and
offering a number of trash bins (both inside and outside the restaurants)
for their convenience, McDonald's "Litter Patrols" walk around the
restaurants several times each day picking up litter -- even if it isn't
from McDonald's.
Restaurant managers walk through the dining areas each hour, to
ensure that it is clean and well stocked. All restaurants provide a
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variety of comfortable seating arrangements to accommodate anyone
from a single individual to a large family. The environment is warm,
inviting, and well lit.
VALUE
McDonald's menu is priced at a value that the largest segment of
Indian consumers can afford. McDonald's does not sacrifice quality for
value rather McDonald's leverages economies of scale to minimize
costs while maximizing value to customers.
McDonald's definition of value is broader than most restaurants of its
kind it is more than price. Value at McDonald's is the sum of the
total McDonald's experience: quality food; fast, friendly service; a
clean and pleasant environment, and products priced at very
affordable prices for the largest segment of Indian consumers
possible. That is value at McDonald's.
Every Day Great Value at McDonald’s
McDonald’s worldwide stands for QSC&V, where the ‘V’ stands for value
and therefore the value propositions assumes special significance.
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Explaining this, Mr. Vikram Bakshi Managing Director and JVP,
McDonald’s India, (North and East) says “McDonald’s success has been
built on commitment to the delivery of QSC&V (quality, service, cleanliness
and value) to customers, the expansion of restaurant numbers to improve
convenience and large scale investment in supplier development, training
and people. Getting QSC&V right consistently and overwhelming
appreciation of value keeps our customers satisfied and maintains our
competitive edge.”
Value as the Corner Stone of McDonald’s Strategy
The value initiative at McDonald’s is all pervasive. “Our strategy is to
achieve best value by enhancing experience (offering best quality),
while keeping prices reasonable. This applies to products we serve to
our customers and to every other aspect of the way we do business”. At
McDonald’s, costs are kept low by increasing efficiency and cutting
wastage at all levels. This is possible by advanced operations,
management and human behaviour skills tested over time in 120
countries across the world.
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It is important to understand that delivering highest quality doesn’t
come easily. Customers, who walk into a McDonald’s restaurant,
expect to be served food that is hot and fresh, made from high quality
ingredients, served within minutes of placing their order and at a price
which is affordable. Such is the strength of the brand that they rely on
McDonald’s to do all this, without thinking about how it is actually
achieved “every day every time”.
McDonald’s has always believed in providing value to the customer.
McDonald’s menu has always been priced at a value that the largest
segment of the Indian consumers can afford. McDonald’s does not
sacrifice quality for value – rather McDonald’s leverages economies to
minimize costs while maximizing value to customers McDonald’s
embarked on a ‘Branded Affordability’ programme - a special value
offer, for the customer, with the objective of offering consumers
products at an attractive price point. The Branded Affordability
programme is not a discount or a price promotion. It is more on the
lines of providing products to the customer that are very affordable.
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McDonald’s Value Offerings
Though all McDonald’s food products offer tremendous value, we
continually review and improve our menu offerings to make sure that we not
only meet our customers’ expectations, but also exceed them. Being
affordable to the largest number of customers is a driving force in our value
strategy.
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Location Strategy
McDonald’s opened its first outlets in Mumbai and Delhi due to:
These 2 cities have metropolitan culture and wide Western exposure.
There live the most of the Indian’s rich and upper middle class inhabitants
who were aware of McDonald’s food.
There were the 2 distribution centers of McDonalds.
Due to logistics play a critical role in McDonald’s location strategy, the first outlets
were opened only within a 500Km radius of its main distribution centers.
McDonald’s also made some partnerships in order to opened outlets besides the
petroleum stations, railway stations and drive-through in Delhi and along national
highways.
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McDonald’s… A Socially Responsible Organization Corporate responsibility is a core value at McDonald's. It is a deep-seated tradition
dating back to our founder, Ray Kroc, and a key element in our business strategy today.
We know that our continuing success depends on our customers’ trust—in the quality
and safety of our food, in our business practices, and in our commitment to making a
difference on issues they care about.
In McDonald’s being a good corporate citizen means
doing what is right
Being a good neighbour and partner in the community
Conducting business with the environment in mind
What we do is because ‘we care’…
According to a study conducted by ORBIS international indicates that India shoulders
the largest burden of global blindness, with almost 52 million blind people. Of these,
more than 320,000 are
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Children, making India home to one of the largest populations of visually challenged
children in the world. However, it is important to note that more than half of all
childhood blindness is avoidable
If trained paediatric eye care personnel and adequate facilities are available.
Acknowledging the fact that Paediatric ophthalmology is one of the least commonly
accessed speciality in India, McDonald’s India (North and East) teamed up with
prominent sight saving NGO, ORBIS International and reputed Dr. Sheriff’s Charity
Eye Hospital (SCEH) for their sight saving programs. Over 430 children economically
and visually challenged children have benefited from vision correction surgeries
through funds collected from this endeavour. Many more are likely to benefit from the
refurbished paediatric ward at SCEH. Another sizeable amount was recently donated
towards procuring paediatric state of the art eye care equipment’s for children OPD at
SCEH.
Through the Hand in Hand Saving Sight Programme, McDonald's is also
supporting an outreach programme in partnership with ORBIS and SCEH,
whereby satellite clinics were established in remote villages of Alwar to treat
villagers with eye problems.
The Managing Director continues to play a pivotal role in raising funds for the
Hospital-cum Elders Home to help the elderly lead a life with dignity.
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Commitment to Children
McDonald’s in association with UNESCO, Readers Digest, and Ministry of Human
Resource Development and Walt Disney, organized “Millennium Dreamers” – a
nationwide search for child achievers who have contributed to the community,
humanitarianism and education for young people aged 8-15 years. The objective was to
highlight the achievements of children who have made a difference and dare to dream
for the future. The achievers represented India at the International Millennium
Dreamers Summit.
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Observations & Learning
McDonald's posted better-than-expected sales results as dollar menu items
drove higher store traffic. But the headlines do not tell the whole story
regarding McDonald's long march towards increased global dominance in the
restaurant business.
McDonald's seeks to provide discounted items to drive store traffic but pivot
consumers towards more appealing (and higher margin) items such as specialty
menu burgers and salads.
They are committed to sell more coffee drinks at a discounted price relative
to Starbucks. Their shake and juice drinks seek to chip away share from Jamba
Juice.
To learn from McDonald's strategic and operational efforts.
Change and evolution is necessary in a rapidly morphing consumer environment.
Sell what people want to buy.
Innovation is required and one should not be afraid to price products at a
premium if the differentiation is clear to consumers
Never underestimate consumer’s desire for a sale. Use sales to build traffic.
Global expansion matters as emerging market consumers become a bigger part of
the global economy. International efforts should not be a secondary business.
Keep it simple and avoid diluting brands with confusing offerings (Apple is also
an expert in simplification of product lines)
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Suggestion
A system that helps people to order online and screen in the McDonalds restaurant
that show the place that the person order from which will help them to reduce time
by knowing people places and to deliver it from the nearest branch of McDonalds to
person house.
Mobile phone system, it is like your mobile have a menu of what McDonald’s meals
and you can choose your order from it and it will send your information to the
nearest McDonald’s branch and gives you the way to your nearest McDonald’s
location and you can go and pick it up.
A system about collecting customer’s feedback and suggestions and analyzing it to
make the customers more satisfied by fixing any problem that customers faced while
dealing with buying a meal or something.
A system for McDonald’s customers for who want to have his information
registered there and they can get McDonald’s card and use it whenever they buy
something from there and when they get into a buying for some amount of money
they are allowed to get promotions or discounts so that will make customers more
loyal for McDonald’s.
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CONCLUSION
McDonald’s is one of the largest fast food companies in the world.
They continue their path for success by keeping their consumers in
mind regarding their product selection as well as their prices. They
encourage their employees to do a good job, usually promote from
within, and offers several scholarships to encourage education. Though
McDonald’s is a centralized,
‘‘ wait and see ’’company they find ways to use technological
products that will increase their productivity ,service ,and sales,
everywhere from using the Nintendo DS to train staff to using New
POS touch screen registers. McDonald’s will certainly be around for
plenty more years to come.
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Questionnaires
1. Name ------------------------------------------------------
2. Gender-----------------------------------------------------
3. ADD ------------------------------------------------------
4. Pho. No.---------------------------------------------------
5. Suggestion-----------------------------------------------
6. Job/student-----------------------------------------------
1. When you want to have a meal in a fast food restaurant, will McDonald’s come
to your mind as the first choice?
o Yes
o No
2. Which fast food restaurant(s) do you visit most frequently?
o McDonald
o Dominoes
o Pizza Hut
o Burger King
o KFC
3. What time of the day do you prefer to eat at MCD?
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Dessert
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Snack
4. Which type of McDonald’s promotional advertising catch your eye?
Internet
Newspapers
Billboards
Posters
Magazines
5. Which type of McDonald’s promotional advertising catch your eye?
Internet
Newspapers
Billboards
Posters
Magazines
TV
Others, please specify_______________________________
6. Does the McDonald’s advertising influence you?
Yes
No
7. What’s the main reason(s) for you to patronize McDonald’s?
The delicious foods
The casual atmosphere both inside and outside of the restaurant
The convenience to find a chain restaurant
The affordable price
The gift
The availability of Wi-Fi
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7. Others, please specify_____________________________________
8. If you chose McDonalds, which aspect attracts you?
Advertising
Taste
Environment
Speed
Food
9. What is your evaluation for McDonalds?
Have new good packaging for new product
Have Excellent Advertising
Good taste, accord for public
Speed
Food
10. The unlimited refill of drinks, delivery and drive thru service in McDonald is
an advantage compares with others similar fast food.
Yes
No
11. Thinking about your most recent visit to McDonald's, to what level of
satisfaction do you rank that visit?*
1. Very poor
2. Poor
3. Good
4. Very good
5. Excellent
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12. Please rate your level of agreement with the following statements:
Strongly Disagree (SD) Disagree (D); Agree (A); Strongly Agree (SA).
SD(Strongly
Disagree) D(Disagree) A(Agree)
SA(Strongly
Agree)
1. It is convenient and easy to
buy a meal in McDonald's
2. McDonald’s products have
a reasonable price.
3. McDonalds had good
service with customer.
4. McDonald’s promotion 12-
3pm (value lunch) attract
people.
5. I believe McDonald's
sdeserves my loyalty
6. Over the past years, my
loyalty to McDonald's has
grown stronger
7. Promotional activities
stimulate me to go to
McDonald's
8. McDonald's provides good
value-for-money
9. I would not recommend
McDonald's to others
13. What factors do you consider important when visiting McDonald's? Please
tick.
Not Important Important
Very
Important
1. Product assortment 2. Price
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3. Food quality 4. Discounts / coupons 5. Nutrition 6. Waiting time 7. Distance to McDonald's
14. Gender?
1. Male
2. Female
15. Age?
1. Below 18
2. 18 to 22
3. 23 to 27
4. 28 and above
16. Race?
1. Malay
2. Chinese
3. Indian
4. Others.
17. Occupation?
Student
Executive
Public sector worker
Clerical
Secretarial
Manager
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Bibliography
www.mcdonlds.com
www.authorstream.com
www.slideshare.com
www.wikipedia.com
www.mcdonalsindia.com