Back in 2015, McDonald’s was struggling. In Europe, sales were down 1.4% across the previous 6 years; 3.3% down in the US and almost 10% down across Africa and the Middle East. There were a myriad of challenges to overcome. Rising expectations of customer experience, new standards of convenience, weak in-store technology, a sprawling menu, a PR-bruised brand and questionable ingredients to name but a few.
McDonald’s are the original fast-food innovators; creating a level of standardisation that is quite frankly, remarkable. Buy a Big Mac in Beijing and it’ll taste the same as in Stratford-Upon Avon.
So when you’ve optimised product delivery, supply chain and flavour experience to such an incredible degree — how do you increase bottom line growth? It’s not going to come from making the Big Mac cheaper to produce — you’ve already turned those stones over (multiple times).
The answer of course, is to drive purchase frequency and increase margins through new products.
Numerous studies have shown that no matter what options are available, people tend to stick with the default options and choices they’ve made habitually. This is even more true when someone faces a broad selection of choices. We try to mitigate the risk of buyers remorse by sticking with the choices we know are ‘safe’.
McDonald’s has a uniquely pervasive presence in modern life with many of us having developed a pattern of ordering behaviour over the course of our lives (from Happy Meals to hangover cures). This creates a unique, and less cited, challenge for McDonald’s’ reinvention: how do you break people out of the default buying behaviours they’ve developed over decades?
In its simplest sense, the new format is designed to improve customer experience, which will in turn drive frequency and a shift in buying behaviour (for some) towards higher margin items. The most important shift in buying patterns is to drive reappraisal of the Signature range to make sure they maximise potential spend from those customers who can afford, and want, a more premium experience.
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Answer:
The balance in the Prepaid Rent account as of April 30, 2018 = $7,200
Explanation:
Monthly rent = $3,600
Rent paid on 1 January = $3,600 
6 = $21,600
Out of which Prepaid Rent = $3,600 5 = $18,000
for 5 months
Prepaid rent account as on April 30 balance will be of rent for May and June,
That is $3,600 2 = $7,200
Only this amount will be outstanding in prepaid rent as for the month till April each month rent would have been adjusted from February to April.
Final Answer
The balance in the Prepaid Rent account as of April 30, 2018 = $7,200
Answer: Goal acceptance
Explanation:
Most times in organizations, it is the people in leadership positions who set and manage goals for the employees and it is rare for staff to be part of the goal setting process,
Such employees are sometimes not sure of what to do and how to achieve the goals. Such employees are not in charge of their own responsibilities. Employee goal acceptance is when employees are just part of the process when making decisions even though the goals are set by the management.
Answer:
would be the dollar value between the US and Canadian
