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Thursday July 21, 2016
Jimmy's Egg is anothe innovation iover coming the long hours of most restaurants.
This franchise is typically located in a a suburb in a low cost by pleasant location. They only offer breakfast and lunch in a sit down waitress oriented fashion. This solves the help problem and limits the menu.
Lunch is pretty standard burgers, sandwiches along with traditional chicken fried steak and such.
Breakfast reminds me of the sort of Chinese menu in that you can build your own breakfast.
Again this is another example of a business plan which eliminates a lot of problems.
Thursday July 21 2016
Here is another example of a restaurant that has overcome many of the problems of a typical restaurant.
It is in downtown Odessa, which is not well served with restaurants. I see they dropped breakfast, which they tried for a while, and are now back to the original 11 AM - 2 PM Monday thru Friday schedule. That is right, no night time work, no weekend work.
A basic idea of maunfacturing is building multiple models from the same platform. Henry Ford's Model A was offered in sedan, convertible, and pickup truck versions all off the same chasis.
Burgers work the same way.
Visit the site by clicking here.
Further down the menu I see six different basic burger offerings. These are supplemented by some nine different extras, each at a price. So one can design one's own unique burger.
A basic formula, daylight hours, and home for the weekend. Now that is innovation.
Thursday July 21 2016
The Old San Francisco Steakhouse off San Pedro in San Antonio is no longer a restaurant.
The owners realized a market exists for meetings only out side of hotels. Now the venue
is only open for meetings. This solves most of the existing problem of running a restaurant.
See the previous example of Miss Mary Bobo's. San Antonio Institute of Internal Auditors now has
all of our board and monthly meetings here. Management knows the number coming and only has one version of the meal to prepare. This is in contrast to a restaurant where the number coming is unknown and the menu is varied.
This virtually eliminates waste and spoilage. And I am guessing, I will inquire, that without the overhead of a hotel, SFS is able to offer lower cost meals.
This is a great example of Total Quality Management in action. The same venue now makes a higher profit with less waste.
Thursday July 21 2016
Here is an example of what I mean about articles illustrating managerial accounting.
This blogger explains why Texans love Whataburger.
When Harmon Dobson began what would become the chain in Corpus Christi in the early 1950s, he wanted
customers to say, what a burger when it took two hands to move it to their mouth.
He was a pilot and so hit on the idea of an easy to spot orange and white color scheme.
Today Whataburger is still a private company but has moved to our own San Antonio on 281 in the
Concord Plaza.
Thursday July 21 2016
The New Horizon Spacecraft traveled some three billion miles over a ten year period to send back this photo of Pluto.
Wed July 20 2016
Here is an example of observing managerial cost accounting in action. Read about the $50 smartphone. Amazon sells the blu R1 HD for 50 bucks but you do get the advertisements. Battery life is great,camera only soso wiht 720 p rather than 1080 p. But with other high end phones selling for hundreds of dollars, what's not to like?
Weekend July 16 216
With the markets at new highs, it is no surprise that light hearted movies movies are doing well at the box office.
debuts July 22. Edina and Patsy are off on more madcap adventures featuring many celebrities playing themselves. My wife loved the British tv series and I look forward to the movie.
took in $100 M its first weekend. We are attending this morning and will report.
We recommend avoiding this movie. All the seats were sold out last weekend so we waited a week.this Saturday at 12 15 at the Rim Paladium
there were plenty of empty seats, I see why. This tasteless reprise of the Toy Story plot, how pets act when people are not around, and how they
accidentally leave and have a mad scramble to get home again, is a big disappointment. It violated several rules of animated movies like
the animals do not die, but one did
the animals do not dislike humans, a gang of animals does in this flick
and there were other disgusting abuses I won't detail.
I enjoyed the first and My Big Fat Greek Wedding II
should be enjoyable as well.