Draft 3. Modd pizza company

Weakness

The company is facing stiff competition since the close competitor of pizza is the pielogy, the blazepizza, and the project pie (Caley, 2013) .

Opportunities

The company has raised the private equity funds for investment and ensuring that there are expansion and growth of the restaurant. The company is offering the delivery services as well as the takeout is a way of trying to meet more customers which is a potential opportunity. More to that selling of products such as the salad dressings, baked products among others is an opportunity and would increase the total sales. The company should also take advantage of the market trends and the cultural forces to determine the external factors affecting the company and try to work on a line with them. More importantly, the customer patterns and behavior are very crucial to observe so that employees can meet the expectations and needs of the customers (Konopasek, 2014).

Threats

The company is experiencing competition from the nearby business. Also, the newly opened restaurant is becoming a threat. Also, there has been an increase in the prices of food due to the economic downturn which has caused an increase in the cost of production and this has made the company increase an extra cost to their menus which has caused a decline in the number of customers consequently the net profit (Garnick, 2016).

MOD Human Resource Analysis

The company has a passionate executive team who are highly experienced and have an impact on the MOD pizza production. The employees are goal-oriented and they always work to ensure continuity of Mod Culture lasts and their dedication have brought a lot of social change. The restaurant has one thousand and seven employees who come from different geographical areas that they always combine their knowledge and attend training which helps them to be more knowledgeable and innovative and this has improved the quality of the products as well as meeting the customer's needs and expectations. The company motivates its employees by giving them off days, increasing their remunerations and other benefits.

MOD Operations

The founder of the company who is Scot and wife Ally is the CEOs and the Protector of the company respectively. The company operations are, managed by the executive team, the board and advisory team and other employees. These employees work as a team and explore for more ideas to have an innovate restaurant as well as creating the people culture where all individuals can thrive. The company operations also ensure that the employees are confident in their work and have the targeted goals that they are to achieve. The company has received several awards in the course of its operations among them being the Community Impact Award received in 2015 because of creating job opportunities. They have also been awarded the Feat Reach Stars Award for being the best employer. In 2015 they received another award for being the best place to work in retail. This is a sign that the company operations have been managed well and that’s is why it has continued to grow and expand at a higher rate. The company is situated in areas such as the Texas, California, Arizona, Texas, Oregon, Colorado among others (Inglis, 2016).

Mod Marketing structure

The company has 200 places where it sells its products also, it has a franchise that helps market its products. The company has online platforms where they can communicate with the customers who are not within their geographical area this creates room for them to market their products. The company also markets itself by offering donations to the needy, promotions, offering aftersales services such as packaging among others. They have also charity squad where they offer donations to the local non-profit organization which attracts more customers (Bernhardt, 2017).

Mod strategic analysis

Mod has been engaging in strategic planning in all its operations and this is has helped in dealing with many challenges that are faced by most of the restaurant such as the inexperience, poor customers services, mismanagement of funds and finances and poor geographical location. The strategic plan for the company has helped in getting clarity of the performance of the business as well as knowing how resources are utilized. The company has Franchise Restaurant and the Franchisees always expect the strategic planning information, ideas, tools among others from the franchisor (Webb, 2017). The company also try as much as possible to ensure that all employees have the company mission, vision, values and the culture of the company. The company also ensures that all the franchisees have SWOT analysis that can help them identify their weakness and threats and try to convert them into strengths and opportunities respectively. The Company together with its franchisees are expected to adhere to the customers’ expectations, economic health, procedures, and protocols to avoid being in conflict with legal authorities (Lin, 2016).

MOD mission statement

Mod is the best pizza experience, pioneering fast and casual services to its customers. The name MOD means a lot such as made on demand, treating the employees and this can be referred to as MOD squad. The company always put people first and this has impacted positively on their lives and the community at large. Also, the company aims at improving all individuals including those in specials needs and this is because the company code of conducts provides a room for accepting, developing and giving equal opportunities to all (Hynum R. , 2013).

Conclusion

It's no doubt that the Mod Company is headed by a super management who are always dedicated, goal oriented and ready to serve people of the community. Not only does the company gain from the public but also give back to it. This is evidenced where we see a lot of the people getting job opportunities from the company and this has increased the gross domestic period, reduced the poverty rate as well as improving the standard of living of people, the company also provides a donation to the need which is showing generosity especially to the needy children. It's worth noting that the management has also worked on reducing the employee’s turnover by providing them with better remunerations and the benefits which always motivates them. The management of the company is worth being congratulated as they have improved the company and lead to its enormous growth (Fajardo, 2014).

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