Kudler Fine Foods: Overview of Management

Kudler Fine Foods is a growing local upscale fine food store in San Diego. Kudler Fine Foods has three locations and specializes in bakery and pastry products, fresh produce, fresh meat, seafood, condiments, package foods, cheeses, and dairy products. Kudler Fine Foods mission is to “offer each customer a delightful and pleasing shopping outing.” With a mission statement, such as theirs Kudler Fine Foods wants to partner up with a loyalty rewards program company. This loyalty rewards program will allow customers to earn points for airfare upgrades, gifts, and other specialty foods. Kudler Fine Foods also

Kudler Fine Foods is a gourmet establishment. The first store was opened in 1998 and was such a success that many more will be opening. This gourmet shop was created in the vision the owner was searching for: a place where gourmet foods can be purchased at an affordable price. Kudler Fine Foods employs many employees. These employees have rights that must be adhered to.

After reviewing the Kudler Fine Food network, a major network overhaul will need to bring the network up to par with the latest technology. If Kudler Fine Foods is not able to upgrade their systems then they will fall behind the technological curve and will not be able to compete with other companies. Kudler needs to do the upgrade not only to keep up with the advances with network systems but needs to install the proper systems to increase profits. If Kudler does not do constant upgrades then they will be forced to pay a larger amount for the larger upgrades in the future. It is vital to install the proper systems that will have the longevity and the capability for future network expansion without having to spend money on unnecessary upgrades.

Kathy Kudler owner and founder of Kudler Fine Foods is looking to expand her company and market her products to new prospective clients, along with improving her services to her current clientele. Since the opening day of Kudler Fine Foods in June 1998 the business has become sustainable and profitable.

By observing the purchases made by the customers, and examine the contracts with the distributors, Kudler Fine Foods could cut down on the frequent ordering of products, giving Kathy more time to concentrate on other functions of the business.

Kudler Fine Foods should upgrade to a system that has bar-coding and is linked to inventory. This system would be beneficial for any business in stocking food, clothes or any other inventory item. The barcodes on each item will keep your inventory records, starting from the point they are received into inventory and the moment they are purchased. With the bar-coding there is a set price for each item and will be automatically linked to the software used by Finance and Accounting. This system could get rid of the excel sheet tracker for inventory and can get rid of any potential transpost errors made by manually entering inventory. Major grocery stores are equipped with systems such as bar-coding and inventory control.

In this paper we will evaluate the Kudler website and make some recommend some improvements. Kudler Fine Foods website has strengths and weaknesses and we will evaluate the existing site and purposes improvements for redesigns while building on the strengths of the current sites. The following specifically addressed design are the style and artistic quality used on the website, navigation of the site, marketing strategy, performance of the whole site, e-commerce capabilities, the web community as a whole, and layout of the site.

The Kudler Fine Foods (KFF) specializes in the retailing of grocery and other edibles from 1998, when its official founder and owner, Kathy officially conceptualized the first store at La Jolla, which is located in California. Just two years after that, the next store was in Del Mar. The stores gained momentum and opened their third store in Encinitas. All the Kudler stores are of high quality, with regards to the services provided and also the fashionable trends adopted by the company. Currently, the stores

Kudler Fine Foods was first established in 1998 by Kathy Kudler in the San Diego, California metropolitan area (Kudler’s Fine Foods (2004). Today there are three locations, the first location to open in 1998 was La Jolla, second to open in 2000 was Del Mar, and third to open in 2003 was Encinitas. Each 8,000 square foot store is stocked with the very best domestic and imported foods and wines. Kudler prides itself on using the finest and freshest organic ingredients, which they purchase from local organic farmers.

Providing Kudler Fine Food employees with access to their own benefits, personnel, and paycheck information is a good way to reduce routine administration. Employee Self-Service (ESS) solutions allow employees and their managers to view, create, and maintain their information using a web browser. Self-service lets employees find answers to questions about paychecks and benefits, as well as update information such as contact information or dependents. ESS reduces the burden of paperwork, while retaining HR’s ability to control and approve processes. Kudler Fine Foods would be able to use ESS technology to create a communications portal that distributes information about company policies and benefits to the entire workforce.

Kudler fine foods are a high level specialty food store with the finest series of food and wine. The storehouse is dedicated to offering top class foods to their consumers. Kudler fine foods would love to make an innovative program to follow any customer acquisition through a frequent shopper program. The frequent shopper program would gift loyalty points and give the chance to convert those points towards Kudler fine food products. The frequent shopper program will store customer purchase behavior, demographic information, which will assist in any promotions and store

Kudler Fine Foods would like to develop a Frequent Shopper Program to track the purchases of their customers. As the purchases of a customer are tracked, they will accumulate loyalty points. A customer can redeem their points for gift items, specialty foods and other products or services.

Kathy Kudler has shown to be a strong business woman in the face of the gourmet grocer industry. To maintain that reputation Kathy has decided to expand services by both location and offerings. Kathy has researched the growing gourmet grocer market and has found a need in Canada. By researching the market Kathy found the one key product lacking is gourmet coffee. Ms. Kudler as well as other stakeholders of Kudler Fine Foods must enlist the marketing department for the expansion to Canada with new gourmet coffee product to be successful. The marketing department will show the market needs, product description, growth potential and competition in

Kudler Fine Foods (KFF), a virtual organization from the University of Phoenix (2008), is interested in developing and deploying a customer tracking system through a Kudler Frequent Shopper Program (KFSP) that would provide KFF data on shopping habits of cliental and in return provides customers with high-end incentives for shopping. The project will require the determination of requirements from KFF and their client base and a system analysis. This paper follows a systems analysis process by exploring business objectives and models, current and proposed system analysis, project constraints, functional requirements, cost benefit analysis, and design requirements with the assumed delivery being to an executive management

Kudler Fines Foods founded in 1998 and is growing rapidly. When they open their first store, Microsoft Access was selected as the database to track inventory, orders, and customers. The products, they sold are perishable and inventory must be properly tracked. Kudler excessive inventory is always a concern. This paper will evaluate database tables from accounting perspective, provide recommendation for improvement and create pivot table to help Kudler's management to improve decision making process.