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Running Head: Compensation Rates
Compensation Rates for Kudler Fine Foods
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University of Phoenix
Introduction
Kudler Fine Foods is a triplex of successful gourmet food stores nestled in the San Diego metropolitan area of southern California. The gourmet food store is a one-stop shop for the freshest ingredients and most unique tools serving the most discriminating cooks. Kudler Fine Foods is an upscale specialty food store, servicing the food connoisseur from three California locations. Kathy Kudler, the President, who had tired of her marketing position with a large defense contractor as it involved constant travel and pressures typical of corporate life, founded the company in 1998. The company has three locations (La Jolla, Del Mar and Encinitas). Each store has approximately 16,000 square feet of retail space located in a fashionable shopping center (University of Phoenix, 2007). The stores are stocked with the very best domestic and imported foodstuffs and divided into five departments consisting of a fresh bakery and pastries, fresh produce, fresh meat and seafood, condiments and packaged foods and lastly cheese's and specialty dairy products.
Kudler Fine Food’s mission is to provide customers with the finest in selected foodstuffs, wines, and related needs in an unparalleled consumer environment (University of Phoenix, 2007). In order to develop this mission, Kudler Fine Foods needed to first develop an effective management team, secure new technologies to support the organizational infrastructure and realize the reality of competition. Kudler Fine Foods has experienced significant growth and recently identified a new opera ...