Restaurants offer a variety of menu items which have different sizes, ingredients, packaging, and demand. In addition, made-to-order restaurants go one step further and may have different renditions o
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Olga Godenko
Colorado State University
Menu Items
The organization selected for the analysis is McDonald's fast food restaurant, mainly because it adheres to the requirement of the assignment and the products are recognized. The restaurant is part of numerous outlets located nationwide with the headquarters being in Oak Brooks, Illinois. The company first founded in 1948, began as a small hamburger restaurant (Stearns, 2016). Nevertheless, the company took advantage of the low competition marker and by adding new commodities commonly unavailable in the market was able to make profits (Stearns, 2016). It should be noted that the first franchise program began in 1955 by Kroc (Stearns, 2016). Additionally, the founders discovered a simplified and lucrative means of making large quantities of food. These mark the main reasons for selecting McDonald's like the best organization to review and analyze three of its menu items.
Among the items to undergo, cost analysis is the Chicken McNuggets, Big Mac, and Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles. The listed items can be found on the restaurant’s menu. Moreover, the consist of among the most consumed items in the menu thereby making them the perfect specimen to analyze and understand how McDonald’s makes profits from these products. In the McDonald’s cost analysis of operations, the founding brothers discovered that then it cost approximately 15 cents to make a basic hamburger (Pilcher, 2017). Moreover, they discovered that they could save a lot more by eliminating the needs for waiters and waitresses. This allowed the consumer to receive their respective food products while still hot thereby eliminating delays (Pilcher, 2017). This strategy has allowed the organization to prosper with over 35,000 outlets in over countries. These reasonings make the company intriguing to analyse and process (Pilcher, 2017).
Cost Analysis
| Food item | Ingredients | Variance in preparation | Packaging | Price Point |
| Big Mac | Big Bun, 100% Beef Patty, Shredded Lettuce, Sauce, Pasteurized Process American Cheese, Pickle Slices and Onions | The product can be made with variations in the ingredients as substitutes are available | no colors from artificial sources, regardless, wrapped, and warmed under heat lamps. | $3.99 |
| Chicken McNuggets | Small chicken pieces and bread crumbs | These can only be made in one way. | 4.49 for 10 pieces | |
| Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles | Griddle cakes, Folded Egg, Sausage Patty, Pasteurized Process American Cheese, and Clarified Butter | The product can be made with variants of the same ingredients such as the sausage patty and cheese | $3.99 |
References
Pilcher, J. M. (2017). Food in world history. Routledge.
Stearns, P. N. (2016). Globalization in world history. Routledge.
