Our group presentation on our semester long front end analysis project in which we examined a fictitious system (Sammo's Seafood Restaurant) in an attempt to assess the system's problems and any inherent needs to address those problems
2. Restaurant Background
✦ It is a large family style franchise
restaurant
✦ Employs about 30-40 people
✦ Diverse menu
✦ Located near a popular shopping center
✦ Decline in profits
3. System Chart
Management
Equipment Food/Menu
Employees
Facility/
Physical Space
Customers
4. Subsystem Chart
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Employees
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Family/ Motivation
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Friends cu
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Hourly
Wages
Transportation
Employee
Education Long Term
Goals
Health Dept
(personal hygiene)
5. Suprasystem Chart
Media Health Dept
(operational protocols)
Advertising Corporate
Reputation
Leadership
Transportation
Diet Trends
Natural
Disasters Menu
Ingredients/
Supplies
Economy
Season
Restaurant Location
6. Gate Keepers
✦ Managers
✦ Authoritative power
✦ Responsible for policies, budget, personnel,
information, and resources of the restaurant
✦ Corporate Leadership
✦ Develop the restaurant’s standards
✦ Provide funding
7. Change Leaders
✦ Managers
✦ Profitability of the restaurant
✦ Productivity of employees
✦ Key Employees
✦ Want to address system faults-health &
safety
✦ Dislike current management decisions
✦ Corporate Leadership
✦ Changes across the franchise
8. Blockers
✦ Employees
✦ Question changes that will not lead to
benefits
✦ No faith in changes proposed by management
✦ Customers
✦ Find stability in status quo = good food
and service
9. Installation Process
✦ Determine what should be changed
✦ Agreement from all parties
✦ Funding & resources approval
✦ Propose pilot program
✦ Receive feedback and recommendations
from blockers & change leaders
✦ Develop the process for change
10. Monitoring & Maintenance
✦ Periodic Evaluation
-After one, three, six, and twelve months
✦ Employee Evaluations
-Perceptions of work environment
✦ Customer Surveys
-Quality of customer service
✦ Profitability
11. Gather Information
✦ Surveys from all individuals about
various aspects of the restaurant
✦ Interviews with employees and managers
✦ “Secret Diners” will make dining area
observations
12. Discrepancy Chart - What Is
✦ Input
-Rushing when taking orders/serving meals
✦ Process
-Bad work habits not addressed or improved
upon
✦ Products
-Customers receiving incorrect orders
✦ Output
-15% of all customers report bad service
✦ Outcome
-Restaurant loses money
13. Discrepancy Chart - What Should Be
✦ Input
-Attentive when taking orders/serving meals
✦ Process
-Positive employee work habits are fostered
✦ Products
-Customers will receive exact order
✦ Output
-100% of all customers report good service
✦ Outcome
-Restaurant highly profitable
14. “What Is”
✦ 15% of customers report bad service
✦ 70% of these customers refuse to pay
✦ Small percentage of employees unhappy,
affecting overall restaurant performance.
15. “What Should Be”
✦ Excellent customer service
✦ 100% of customers are satisfied
✦ All employees happy
16. The Gap
✦ Need for improved employee-customer
relations
✦ Improved communication between
employees and management
✦ These changes will positively affect
profitability
17. Goals
✦ 1 :: Increase profitability of restaurant
✦ 2 :: Improve customer service
✦ 3 :: Strengthen employee morale
✦ 4 :: Provide a stable and enriching work
place
19. Solutions
✦ Customer Service Training Program
✦ Employee Incentive Program
✦ Management-Employee Liaison Officier
20. Recommended Solution
✦ Customer service training program
✦ Pros:
✦ Outside voice
✦ Team Building
✦ Maintenance
✦ No long term cost
✦ Cons:
✦ Initial cost of training event
✦ Employee Scheduling
✦ Customer Service + Team Growth =
PROFITABILITY
21. Reflections - Dan
✦ Front End Analysis
✦ Benefits of systematic analysis
✦ Question of application of front end analysis
✦ Group Work
✦ Strength in numbers
✦ Face-to-face vs. online
22. Reflections - Sam
✦ Process of a Front End Analysis
✦ Theories of instructional design
✦ Academic & presentation skills
✦ Use of new technology
✦ Teamwork
23. Reflections - Matt
✦ Group work can be OK!
✦ It all makes sense now--Front End
Analysis
✦ Revise one more time--post presentation