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Opening a restaurant
 by using the six steps in Decision
 Making
Tutorial Group No. : TE1 Week : 7
Members :
Lam Kwok Tung Kenny 52610985
Lam Chi Wing Frankie 52644718
                                      1
Lai Chung Yam Thomas 52569984
Content
? Situation
? Six steps in Decision Making
? Summary
? Q&A Section




                                 2
Situation
? Open a restaurant in a centrally located shopping
  center that already has many restaurants that
  provide different kinds of food at all price

? Have the resources to open any type of
  restaurant.

? Decide which type of restaurant to open
                                                      3
Six steps in Decision Making




                               4
5
Step 1 - Recognize the need for a decision
  ?Decision : To decide which type is most likely to
    succeed
  ? There are all kinds of restaurant that provide food at
    all price of range
  ? Resources are enough to open any type of restaurant
  ? A restaurant will be opened in a shopping center
  As a result, we need to:
  ?Survive and succeed under fierce competition
  ?Be unique, different
  ?Choose suitable type to open
                                                             6
Step 1 - Recognize the need for a decision
 Shopping center chosen : Festival Walk




                                             7
Step 2 - Generate alternatives
? Develop feasible alternative courses of action
? Otherwise bad decision will be made
? More new ideas
? Brainstorming




                                                   8
Step 2 - Generate alternatives

? Alternative 1 - Ocean buffet

? Alternative 2 - Pet Restaurant

? Alternative 3 - Rainforest Food court

? Alternative 4 - Green Caf¨¦

                                          9
Alternative 1 - Ocean buffet
? A big roofed aquarium
? Beautiful and rare aquatic animals
  coral reef and fish
? Luxury table, chair and decorations
? Western buffet
   ?wines, steak




                                        10
Alternative 2 ¨C Pet Restaurant
? Lovely decoration and pet toys
? Pet owners can have meal with their pets
? Provide a platform for pet owners to share their
  experience and happiness about raising pets
? Pets can play together




                                                     11
Alternative 2 ¨C Pet Restaurant




                                 12
Alternative 3 ¨C Rainforest Food court
? With a vivid rainforest decoration
      e.g. aquarium, trees, animals
? Change lighting and sound effect together with some
  decoration regularly




                                                        13
Alternative 3 ¨C Rainforest Restaurant




                                        14
Alternative 4 - Green caf¨¦
? Decoration with natural landscape printing or photo
? Provide food and drink made by organic fruit or
  vegetable
? Excogitate new dishes to provide customer feeling of
  freshness
? Use fixture with natural or recycle materiel
? Donate some profits to
  green organization



                                                         15
Step 3 - Assess alternatives
Criteria
1. Legality : not violate any laws or government regulations
2. Ethicalness : ethical and will not unnecessarily harm any
    stakeholder group
3. Economic feasibility : have the best net financial payoff
4. Practicality : has the required abilities and resources; the
    alternative will not threaten the attainment of other goals




                                                                  16
Assessment of Ocean Buffet
Pros:
? An amazing roofed aquarium in a shopping center
  (Practicality)
? Huge range and wide type of food

Cons:
? the maintenance cost of the aquarium( Economic
  feasibility)


                                                    17
Assessment of Pet Restaurant
Pros:
? Pet owners can have meal with their pets
? Provide a platform for pet owners to share their experience
  and happiness about raising pets

Cons:
? Violate Food Business Regulation - Cap.132X(Legality)
Example:£º




 "Kat House", in Mikiki mall in San Po Kong fail to obtain a restaurant   18
license.
Assessment of Pet Restaurant
Cons:
? Others customers in the mall may be affected.
  (Ethicalness)




                                                  19
Assessment of Rainforest Food court
Pros:
? Wide range of food provided
? Interesting theme for Hong Kong people

Cons:
? Very high decoration and maintenance cost. (Economic
  feasibility)
Fail Example:
?Rainforest Caf¨¦ in Festival Walk
?Opened in 1998 and closed in 2002
?Decoration cost > 10million HKD                         20
Assessment of Green Caf¨¦
Pros:
? Few vegetarian restaurant in the market (Practicality)
? Starbuck style liked restaurant is famous in Hong Kong
  (Practicality)
? Raising awareness of health and environment
  (Ethicalness)
? Can use simply decoration (Economic feasibility)

Cons:
? Meat eater is still dominate in Hong Kong
? Dishes not suitable to price too much (Economic          21
  feasibility)
Assessment of Green Caf¨¦
? The public awareness of environmental protection has
   been raising.
e.g.




                                                         22
Assessment of Green Caf¨¦
? The sale of organic product is increasing.
e.g. Hong Kong Organic Resource Center conducted a survey
about organic food in March 2012.
? More people are willing to buy organic food.
? The organic food market is potential.




                                                            23
Step 4 - Choose among alternatives

? Rank the alternatives
? Make decision
? Group thinking
  ? Pattern of faulty and biased decision occurred
  ? Strive for agreement




                                                     24
Step 4 - Choose among alternatives
                  1. Ocean   2. Pet       3. Rainforest   4. Green caf¨¦
                  buffet     Restaurant   food court

1. Legality                       X

2. Ethicalness                    X

3. Economic            XX                      XX
   feasibility

4. Practicality        X                       XX

                                                                          25
Rankings of choices:
Green caf¨¦ > Pet restaurant > Ocean buffet > Rainforest food court
Step 5 - Implement the chosen
alternative
? Implement chosen alternative
? Subsequent and related decision
? Ensure that follow-up decisions are successful




                                                   26
Step 5 - Implement the chosen
alternative
Subsequent and related decisions must be made:
1. Signing contracts with organic food suppliers
2. Recruit chefs, waiters and waitress, cleaners,
   cashier
3. Find decoration company
4. Rent a place and so on



                                                    27
Step 5 - Implement the chosen
alternative
? Top manager may not have enough time to finish all of the
  missions by himself or herself.

? Works must be assigned the to others. (increase the efficiency)

? Key of assigning middle managers

? Managers need to have sufficient resources to achieve the
  goal.

? They should accountable for their performance.

? When success they should be rewarded                              28

? If fail they should be responsible for it.
Step 6- Learn from feedback
? Evaluate the results and learn from experience

? Find out why expected results were not met

? Establish guidelines that will aid decision making in the
  future




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Step 6- Learn from feedback
After 4 months,

                             Profit
 8
 7
 6
 5
 4
 3                                                    Profit
 2
 1
 0
     1st Month   2nd Month    3rd Month   4th Month            30
Feedback1




Problem:
The amount of food cannot fulfill some customers

Solution:
Let customers to decide the amount of food.
? To meet the need of customers and will not waste food
? Promote it as a habit
                                                          31
Feedback2




Problem:
The serving staff has not received manner training

Solution:
? Remind the staff
? Set up rules for staff
Rule 1: Say welcome with smile when customers walk in
Rule 2: Gently tidy up dinning tables
Rule 3: Use positive statement to enhance customer feeling of   32
        making good deed
Summary
? Six steps in Decision Making
  ? Recognize the need
  ? Enough alternative
  ? The four criteria in step 3 ¨C assessing alternatives




                                                           33
References
Book
Management, 2nd ed. (2012), The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Government
http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201201/18/P201201180270.htm

News
http://www.eyo-zh.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?forum=9&topic=60
http://hkmanager.hkma.org.hk/article/%E3%80%8C%E7%84%A1%E9%82%8A%E7%84%
A1%E7%95%8CE7%94%9F%E6%B4%BB%E4%B9%8B%E6%85%8B%E3%80%8D%E3%80%
8C%E5%8F%88%E4%B8%80%E5%9F%8E%E3%80%8D%E5%B8%82%E5%A0%B4%E7%AD
%96%E7%95%A5%E4%B8%BB%E9%A1%8C.html?request_locale=zh_TW

Others
http://yettatop.pixnet.net/blog/post/3393675-
%E9%96%8B%E5%BA%97%E7%A7%98%E7%AC%88%E3%80%8B%E4%B8%BB%E9%A1%
8C%E9%A4%90%E5%BB%B3-%E8%B6%A3%E5%91%B3%E7%B6%93%E7%87%9F
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/hk_food/theme.htm                      34
Q&A Section
1. Which steps is the most important and
   difficult?




2. In the four criteria in step 3, which one do you
   think is the most crucial?


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  • 1. Opening a restaurant by using the six steps in Decision Making Tutorial Group No. : TE1 Week : 7 Members : Lam Kwok Tung Kenny 52610985 Lam Chi Wing Frankie 52644718 1 Lai Chung Yam Thomas 52569984
  • 2. Content ? Situation ? Six steps in Decision Making ? Summary ? Q&A Section 2
  • 3. Situation ? Open a restaurant in a centrally located shopping center that already has many restaurants that provide different kinds of food at all price ? Have the resources to open any type of restaurant. ? Decide which type of restaurant to open 3
  • 4. Six steps in Decision Making 4
  • 5. 5
  • 6. Step 1 - Recognize the need for a decision ?Decision : To decide which type is most likely to succeed ? There are all kinds of restaurant that provide food at all price of range ? Resources are enough to open any type of restaurant ? A restaurant will be opened in a shopping center As a result, we need to: ?Survive and succeed under fierce competition ?Be unique, different ?Choose suitable type to open 6
  • 7. Step 1 - Recognize the need for a decision Shopping center chosen : Festival Walk 7
  • 8. Step 2 - Generate alternatives ? Develop feasible alternative courses of action ? Otherwise bad decision will be made ? More new ideas ? Brainstorming 8
  • 9. Step 2 - Generate alternatives ? Alternative 1 - Ocean buffet ? Alternative 2 - Pet Restaurant ? Alternative 3 - Rainforest Food court ? Alternative 4 - Green Caf¨¦ 9
  • 10. Alternative 1 - Ocean buffet ? A big roofed aquarium ? Beautiful and rare aquatic animals coral reef and fish ? Luxury table, chair and decorations ? Western buffet ?wines, steak 10
  • 11. Alternative 2 ¨C Pet Restaurant ? Lovely decoration and pet toys ? Pet owners can have meal with their pets ? Provide a platform for pet owners to share their experience and happiness about raising pets ? Pets can play together 11
  • 12. Alternative 2 ¨C Pet Restaurant 12
  • 13. Alternative 3 ¨C Rainforest Food court ? With a vivid rainforest decoration e.g. aquarium, trees, animals ? Change lighting and sound effect together with some decoration regularly 13
  • 14. Alternative 3 ¨C Rainforest Restaurant 14
  • 15. Alternative 4 - Green caf¨¦ ? Decoration with natural landscape printing or photo ? Provide food and drink made by organic fruit or vegetable ? Excogitate new dishes to provide customer feeling of freshness ? Use fixture with natural or recycle materiel ? Donate some profits to green organization 15
  • 16. Step 3 - Assess alternatives Criteria 1. Legality : not violate any laws or government regulations 2. Ethicalness : ethical and will not unnecessarily harm any stakeholder group 3. Economic feasibility : have the best net financial payoff 4. Practicality : has the required abilities and resources; the alternative will not threaten the attainment of other goals 16
  • 17. Assessment of Ocean Buffet Pros: ? An amazing roofed aquarium in a shopping center (Practicality) ? Huge range and wide type of food Cons: ? the maintenance cost of the aquarium( Economic feasibility) 17
  • 18. Assessment of Pet Restaurant Pros: ? Pet owners can have meal with their pets ? Provide a platform for pet owners to share their experience and happiness about raising pets Cons: ? Violate Food Business Regulation - Cap.132X(Legality) Example:£º "Kat House", in Mikiki mall in San Po Kong fail to obtain a restaurant 18 license.
  • 19. Assessment of Pet Restaurant Cons: ? Others customers in the mall may be affected. (Ethicalness) 19
  • 20. Assessment of Rainforest Food court Pros: ? Wide range of food provided ? Interesting theme for Hong Kong people Cons: ? Very high decoration and maintenance cost. (Economic feasibility) Fail Example: ?Rainforest Caf¨¦ in Festival Walk ?Opened in 1998 and closed in 2002 ?Decoration cost > 10million HKD 20
  • 21. Assessment of Green Caf¨¦ Pros: ? Few vegetarian restaurant in the market (Practicality) ? Starbuck style liked restaurant is famous in Hong Kong (Practicality) ? Raising awareness of health and environment (Ethicalness) ? Can use simply decoration (Economic feasibility) Cons: ? Meat eater is still dominate in Hong Kong ? Dishes not suitable to price too much (Economic 21 feasibility)
  • 22. Assessment of Green Caf¨¦ ? The public awareness of environmental protection has been raising. e.g. 22
  • 23. Assessment of Green Caf¨¦ ? The sale of organic product is increasing. e.g. Hong Kong Organic Resource Center conducted a survey about organic food in March 2012. ? More people are willing to buy organic food. ? The organic food market is potential. 23
  • 24. Step 4 - Choose among alternatives ? Rank the alternatives ? Make decision ? Group thinking ? Pattern of faulty and biased decision occurred ? Strive for agreement 24
  • 25. Step 4 - Choose among alternatives 1. Ocean 2. Pet 3. Rainforest 4. Green caf¨¦ buffet Restaurant food court 1. Legality X 2. Ethicalness X 3. Economic XX XX feasibility 4. Practicality X XX 25 Rankings of choices: Green caf¨¦ > Pet restaurant > Ocean buffet > Rainforest food court
  • 26. Step 5 - Implement the chosen alternative ? Implement chosen alternative ? Subsequent and related decision ? Ensure that follow-up decisions are successful 26
  • 27. Step 5 - Implement the chosen alternative Subsequent and related decisions must be made: 1. Signing contracts with organic food suppliers 2. Recruit chefs, waiters and waitress, cleaners, cashier 3. Find decoration company 4. Rent a place and so on 27
  • 28. Step 5 - Implement the chosen alternative ? Top manager may not have enough time to finish all of the missions by himself or herself. ? Works must be assigned the to others. (increase the efficiency) ? Key of assigning middle managers ? Managers need to have sufficient resources to achieve the goal. ? They should accountable for their performance. ? When success they should be rewarded 28 ? If fail they should be responsible for it.
  • 29. Step 6- Learn from feedback ? Evaluate the results and learn from experience ? Find out why expected results were not met ? Establish guidelines that will aid decision making in the future 29
  • 30. Step 6- Learn from feedback After 4 months, Profit 8 7 6 5 4 3 Profit 2 1 0 1st Month 2nd Month 3rd Month 4th Month 30
  • 31. Feedback1 Problem: The amount of food cannot fulfill some customers Solution: Let customers to decide the amount of food. ? To meet the need of customers and will not waste food ? Promote it as a habit 31
  • 32. Feedback2 Problem: The serving staff has not received manner training Solution: ? Remind the staff ? Set up rules for staff Rule 1: Say welcome with smile when customers walk in Rule 2: Gently tidy up dinning tables Rule 3: Use positive statement to enhance customer feeling of 32 making good deed
  • 33. Summary ? Six steps in Decision Making ? Recognize the need ? Enough alternative ? The four criteria in step 3 ¨C assessing alternatives 33
  • 34. References Book Management, 2nd ed. (2012), The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Government http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201201/18/P201201180270.htm News http://www.eyo-zh.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?forum=9&topic=60 http://hkmanager.hkma.org.hk/article/%E3%80%8C%E7%84%A1%E9%82%8A%E7%84% A1%E7%95%8CE7%94%9F%E6%B4%BB%E4%B9%8B%E6%85%8B%E3%80%8D%E3%80% 8C%E5%8F%88%E4%B8%80%E5%9F%8E%E3%80%8D%E5%B8%82%E5%A0%B4%E7%AD %96%E7%95%A5%E4%B8%BB%E9%A1%8C.html?request_locale=zh_TW Others http://yettatop.pixnet.net/blog/post/3393675- %E9%96%8B%E5%BA%97%E7%A7%98%E7%AC%88%E3%80%8B%E4%B8%BB%E9%A1% 8C%E9%A4%90%E5%BB%B3-%E8%B6%A3%E5%91%B3%E7%B6%93%E7%87%9F http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/hk_food/theme.htm 34
  • 35. Q&A Section 1. Which steps is the most important and difficult? 2. In the four criteria in step 3, which one do you think is the most crucial? 35
  • 36. 36