Question

• Select a restaurant with which you are familiar and determine the most likely storage management challenge that restaurant would face, along with how you believe the restaurant addresses that challenge.
• For the same restaurant, determine the most likely security challenge it faces in the purchasing function, along with how you believe the restaurant addresses that challenge.

Answer 1

1. I will be using Popeye’s restaurants again as my example. I feel that the main challenges for Popeye’s would be: Enough space, temperature and humidity, and equipment. Because Popeye’s is a chain restaurant the focus of remodeling is usually solely on cosmetic dynamics and not so much on adding more space. This normally means that whatever the size of that location is what they will be stuck with. Even with a good size area most of the space is given to the kitchen for food storage and preparation and sometimes storage for cutlery and serving ware is overlooked. The location I worked at in the past had shelves in the office that held all food boxes, napkins, cutlery, and cups.
2. Throughout the day I have seen employees taking food from the serving line and packing boxes of food. There prices are the most expensive in the area and should be lower. If they weren’t losing all of that money on theft and pilferage, they could offer reasonable prices to customers. The way to address that issue would be to hire a manager and increase rulers. If employees know they can slack, they will. If the owners do not require employees to ring in drinks and meals, then there is no way to account for them