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Overview of Management: Kudler Fine Foods
As described in the Kuder Fine Foods Simulation, Kudler Fine Foods is a local upscale specialty food store located in the San Diego metropolitan area. 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, 2004). 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 their customers with the finest in selected foodstuffs, wines, and related needs in an unparalleled consumer environment (University of Phoenix, 2004). In order to develop this mission, Kudler Fine Foods needed to first develop an effective management team, focus on new technologies and realize the reality of competition. Kudler Fine Foods has experienced significant growth and is now focusing on expanding Kudler's services, improving the efficiency of the company's operations and increasing the consumer purchase cycle as a means to increasing the loyalty and profitability of its consumers.
Primary Functions of Management
Organizational Structure
Kudler Fine Foods is organized to operate using a frequently used ordinary management arrangement. Kathy Kudler, the founder and President of Kudler Fine Foods, is situated at the top of the organizational chart with all three of her store managers reporting directly to her. Placed just beneath Kathy in the orga ...