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product and quality must be top the charts. Menu and quality surveys are being constantly and
regularly reviewed by operations personnel. In operation management, establishing quality
standard and control to meet these standards is the key to success but HR do better when
providing the unique experience. Hard Rock is quite successful when using food (tangible
product) as the medium to deliver exceptional entertainment and dinning experience (intangible
product) and customer almost satisfy with unique visual and sound experience not duplicated
anywhere. (Heizer & Render, 2009, p. 83)
3. Process and capacity design:
4. Location:
According Oliver Munday, Senior Director Worldwide Caf Development, ' when considering a
new location, a careful decision making process is used, as the investment for a new location is
large and for example usually includes agreeing to a longer term lease on the location of 10-15
years or more' because it's play a role to ensure organization recovered the initial investment
capital as well as minimum profit. . HRC carefully looks at several factors when considering a
location.
' Political risk: In general, stable political of country can impact the decision of economic
activities. It can be seen by the consistency of government policies that helps to ensure the
interest of investor. On the other hands, a stable political situation will make people feel safety in
working and increasing number of people comes to entertaining places.
' Currency risk due to inflation causing the economic crisis. Consequence, enterprise faces with
difficult in exchange rate when earning profit cannot enough to compensate. Currency discount
means pricing escalate, people live from hand to mouth. At that time, consumer will be reduced
and the resulting decline in business revenues and profits, even losses.
' Social norms: in perspective consuming capacity of customer, there are two factors dominant:
people's income and culture, spending habits. If people have high salary, they're willing to spend
much more money for better life. On the contrary, they just spend money on what they really
need. Second, due to culture life and spending habit they spend money on entertainment,
leisure activities that their culture allows. But there are places where even though people's
incomes are really high but they practice in saving and spending.
' Brand fit: This factor is very sensitive and important that Hard Rock should consider carefully
before naming trademarks and deploying their business. Customer will be outraged and boycott
immediately with goods or services that offend communities ethnic or their belief.
' Social costs: This is cost that businesses have responsibility to contribute to society including
taxes'
' Business practices: Hard Rock interested in living standards and intellectual level where
business located.
5. Lay out :
Another reason helps HRC stands out the crowded restaurant is their layout. Just looking their
big guitar outside, definitely it stimulates your curiosity get inside. The wall is being slapped with
lots of memorabilia: guitars, drums, shirts, pants, shoes, scarves, handwritten come from music
band or legendary musicians, such as Jimi Hendrix, Elvis, John Lennon 'HRC seems to be a
'live' museum.
6. Human Resources:
Company from small to large just only archive their operation management strategy with
competent and motivate people. Many organizations have demonstrated that competitive
advantage in operation can be build through a good human resource strategy. In Hard Rock
Caf, part of their missions is creating a friendly, funny working environment not only for
employee but also for their family to make them feel not just come for work only but to enjoy the
work since then they can deliver professional unique entertainment and dining experience to
their guests and to ensure long term company success . Hard Rock has an employee Bill of
Rights, outstanding pay, benefit and promotion that helps employee self-motivated individual,
they also have policy hiring the best qualify not just best available. Human resource can be
expensive, difficult to archive and hard to sustain but what we've seen in Hard Rock Caf with
practice training and treat employee as you need individuality that not only good for business
but also definitely 'rock'. (Heizer & Render, 2009, p. 445)
' Hard Rock had experienced about VN market through the first Hard Rock in Ho Chi Minh. Hard
Rock absolutely has some lessons learn from the first one about human resource, supply chain,
inventory that is a challenges factor for 'Multi-Domestic' strategy.
2. Weaknesses:
' Maybe need more research in emerging market as well as living habit in Hanoi.
3. Opportunities:
' Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam and was formed 1000 years ago, the center of politics, culture
and economy of Vietnam. Hanoi is the first stop of tourists on their way to visit Ha Long Bay
which is a natural wonder of the world, Tuan Chau resort, The Hai Phong port city
' Hard Rock will create a exchange cultural bridge between Vietnamese singer and international
singer.
4. Threats:
' Considerations should be taken as well on regional segmentation of the market, like we usually
say in the marketing and advertising industry, in Vietnam:' Saigonese makes 10 bucks, borrows
1 and spends 11 while Hanoiians makes 10 bucks, spends 1 and saves the rest.' Don't go
rushing to Vietnam hearing the rosy stories. Take your time and breathe like a local before you
make your move.
' Vietnam, like any other emerging market, is a long-haul market for any investor. While it is
looked at as one of the 10 hottest emerging markets in the world with a very young population
and a rising middle class, it is by no means providing a quick return on investment'especially
when you are offering a new product or service concept.
' Educating the market on the specialty coffee category. Try to understand consumer perception
towards the category and match it with what you have in your pocket. You either are a pioneer
and spend money to educate the market or wait until your competitors have done so and piggy
back on market growth. Nevertheless, if your pocket is real deep, buy out a local business in the
category and take it from there.
Let me use the PEST framework for deep analysis and see other perspectives of challenges as
well as opportunities to expand Hard Rock in Hanoi.
PEST Analysis:
Political:
Price index increases, especially food commodities increased to 5.37%. Beverages price index
rose 4.17%. Cigarette price index is up 2.25%. General food sector services have increased the
price index
' Real Estate Market: Hanoi is a growing and expanding city so that real estate prices increasing
so fast. Wherever roads and public services are built, the property prices rose faster and quite
high. Although the city is planning to expand but property prices in the old city still very high and
that led the fact, although Vietnam is a poor country, but property prices is more higher than
other countries in the world.
' Tourists/business visitors: According to statistics, the number of international visitors come to
Hanoi in 2010 increased 62% compared to 2009 while a domestic tourists increased by 10%.
And has more than 30,000 international tourists visited the capital in 10 days Hanoi organized
the celebration of 1000 years of Thang Long ' Hanoi
' Hotel: There are lots of luxury five start hotels in Hanoi such as Hilton, Sofitel Plaza, Sheraton,
Sofitel Metropole, Nikko.
' Convention Center: Hanoi National Convention Center Vietnam was built with scale and
international level, located at 57 Pham Hung Street, Tu Liem district. It was held the Economic
Cooperation Forum Asia - Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in 2006.
' Retail: As well as other cities of a developing country, outside the supermarket and shopping
center, the old town around Hoan Kiem's lake where the famous retailer of the city including
most of the essential goods from individuals and families stuffs to souvenirs.
Socio-cultural
' Population Growth/Age Profile
Population of Hanoi is about more than 6 million people. Especially, urban areas, downtown
area and old town such as Hoan Kiem, Ba Dinh, Dong Da, Hai Ba Ba Trung district is very
crowded. In these areas, the population density is up to about 35,000 people/km2 while other
areas just 2000 people/km2. Age of working capacity is about 66% of the total population.
' Education, Social Mobility: Hanoi now has 52 elementary school, 27 colleges and 50
universities. There is also the Academy and the Center for scientific research.
' Transportation:
' Airport:
a) Age of airport: NoiBai International Airport had built in 1977 and official opened in 1978.
b) Number of Passengers: In 2010, Noi Bai International Airport has average 170 flights taking
off and landing daily, and has served 9.5 million passengers
c) Airlines: Vietnam has three airlines Vietnam, Jetstar and Vietjet airline. And most major
airlines around the world have representative offices in Hanoi .
d) Direct Flights: Noi Bai Airport has direct domestic flights to other cities in VietNam such as Ho
Chi Minh, Nha Trang, Hue and international flights to other cities around the world as: Moscow,
Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Seoul-Incheon, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo-Narita'.
e) Hubs: Currently, Noi Bai International Airport is not on transit routes the international flights.
However, visitors can stop to visit the capital Hanoi in Vietnam on the way to Hongkong, Japan,
Korea, China,Singapore'.
' Rail: Hang Co railway station is the center of the country, the starting point of five railway lines
throughout the province from north to south and to the northern border. From the border,
Vietnam railway connect to international railway to Beijing, China, and continue to many
European countries.
Because of these reasons, the consideration of expanding Hard Rock Cafe in Hanoi in this
period is a job should be considered.
Assume Ba Dinh Square or Hoan Kiem Lake is center point, the most potential area for
business location should be placed on Ba Dinh or Dong Da district or adjacent to the Hoan Kiem
or Hai Ba Trung district. Similar as people in Ho Chi Minh and other cities across the country,
every night, people is going toward downtown. It has created resurgence of "City Centers" at
night
Thus, Hoan Kiem and Hai Ba Trung district or near the Hoan Kiem area is absolutely a great
ideal for location, but found available space here is extremely difficult.
Moreover, location decision is at a 10-15 years commitment. First, lease premises from 10 - 15
years to ensure have enough time to recover the initial investment capital and gain a profit.
Second, the premises are not in the areas that the government put into the clearance plan
within 10-15 years.
In the other hands, due to harsh natural conditions, Hanoi usually got flooded annually or
disasters that damaged crops. Since then demand of entertainment will be cut off. The
consumers will significant decrease.
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