The document outlines the six steps to follow in making a decision to open a restaurant, including recognizing the need, generating alternatives such as an ocean buffet, pet restaurant, rainforest food court or green cafe, assessing the alternatives based on criteria like legality and economic feasibility, choosing the green cafe concept, implementing it, and learning from feedback over time to improve profits. The green cafe was ranked the best option due to its practicality, economic feasibility, and alignment with growing awareness of health and the environment.
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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
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Lai Chung Yam Thomas 52569984
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
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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
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7. Step 1 - Recognize the need for a decision
Shopping center chosen : Festival Walk
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8. Step 2 - Generate alternatives
? Develop feasible alternative courses of action
? Otherwise bad decision will be made
? More new ideas
? Brainstorming
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9. Step 2 - Generate alternatives
? Alternative 1 - Ocean buffet
? Alternative 2 - Pet Restaurant
? Alternative 3 - Rainforest Food court
? Alternative 4 - Green Caf¨¦
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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.
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24. Step 4 - Choose among alternatives
? Rank the alternatives
? Make decision
? Group thinking
? Pattern of faulty and biased decision occurred
? Strive for agreement
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Others
http://yettatop.pixnet.net/blog/post/3393675-
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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?
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