Concentrating on these areas will help attract customers from this generation.
Marketing
Customers choose how they want to learn about and interact with businesses. While the last 50+ years of the Cafe has been more driven by personal relationships, the current generation chooses to use the Web and social networks. Marketing as a result must embrace digital content strategies and delivery coupons regularly to clients over Facebook, Twitter and other platforms. It must also seek to create mailing lists that can be managed through hosted platforms including Constant Contact. In short, the Cafe must redefine its marketing strategies to reflect how its customers want to learn and evaluate the Cafe. The total experience of the Cafe needs to be evaluated from the context of enhancing the customers' valuation of it; not staying stuck in the past and coasting on quaintness and customer loyalty.
Supply Chain and Purchasing
Today the supply chain function of the Cafe consists of an inventory order list and a telephone call to food distributors when supplies run low. The Cafe needs to consider how to use system development initiatives to create more effective automated replenishment. Automating supplies ordering and inventory balances is crucial for ensuring customer satisfaction over time (Ritchie, 1990). This approach to automating the sourcing and replacement process also needs to take into account the cost of lost sales due to out-of-stocks of key ingredients...
Customers' perceptions are a company's reality (McKenna, 1995) and for the Cafe being boring in an age of always-on Wi-Fi and continual innovation is a big threat. The Cafe must change with the times or face the threat of being seen as anachronistic. The second series of threats emanate from the lack of control the company has over its suppliers and inventory. If there were an unforeseen spike in
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