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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Asian Texas is a western caf which tend to carrying out the atmosphere of Texas Cowboys tavern theme. The caf not only serving customers with the various types of interesting western foods, but also trying to offer customers a different atmosphere where they are not able to find it in Kuching. Through the design of caf that nearly looks like a Texas cowboys tavern; accompanied by music and friendly waiter or waitress, Asian Texas will be able to bring something different in Kuching. The Asian Texas is located at Jalan Tun Jugah, specifically in Premier 101. Premier 101 has been known as one of the most strategic places for the food and beverage business in Kuching. There are many colleges and schools; offices and residential house around this area which will make Asian Texas to get a full advantage of this location. Asian Texas is targeting their market to almost all ages target market, from the children, youngster and adult ages. With the use of Internet media, Asian Texas would able to reach many of the customers in Kuching to promote our new and interesting concepts.
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competitive advantages for Asian Texas, because Premier 101 is one of the most crowded and strategic food centers in Kuching. This location located nearby many several big collages, schools and offices and many housing residents. Asian Texas target to almost all ages of customer which include children, youngster, and adult customers because this caf provides many types of products for different customers based on
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CHAPTER 3 PURPOSE OF BUSINESS PLAN The main purpose of conducting this business plan is more toward to the financing purpose. With this great concept of small business that presented in this business plan, it will be easier for Asian Texas to create an interest and trust from the bank for financing the business. Besides the financing purpose, the other purpose for Asian Texas to come out with this business plan is to create a focus for the caf. This is because the business plan keeps a lot of fundamental information about the company, especially about the vision and mission. Through all those important data, the business plan will become good a guideline for the management of cafe. Through this business plan, Asian Texas will be able to help the management to avoid the problems in loss of focus.
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Xing Nian Long (Execuitive Chef and Food and Beverage Manager)
Chef
Cashier
Chef Assistant
Waiter or Waitress
Bar Tender
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Executive Chef (Xin Nian Long) He is responsible in food standard quality to ensure all the food that out from the kitchen are meet the quality that has been set. Xin Nian Long has to be able to spot problems in the kitchen and resolve it quickly and efficiently. Responsible to maximize the productivity of Chef and Chef Assistant. He is controlling the stock of ingredients so that all are enough for certain duration. As a leader in the kitchen crew, Xin Nian Long has to make sure that customers are not waiting for too long for their foods. Innovating the innovative type of western food for customers.
Waiter or Waitress Waiter or Waitress has to be friendly, fun, and polite in serving customers.
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Bar Tender Receive the order of drink from customer Make the drink based on the customers order Mix the drink based on the customer requirement Wash and sterilize the glassware.
CHAPTER 5 ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS 5.1 SWOT Analysis Strength The cowboy concept adopted by Asian Texas can be very unique where there is no other caf with this kind of concept available in Kuching. Asian Texas is located at Premier 101 which known as a strategic location. Asian Texas offers a variety of interesting packages which target to all age of customers. Asian Texas offers an affordable price for the customers. Availability of sufficient parking spaces in Premier 101 area. The previous job experiences of the business partners.
Weaknesses Eastern Texas faces a limitation of financial capital. The cost for renovation is quite high as Asian Texas is adopting the concept of cowboy.
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Opportunities Become a well-known brand of Restaurant in Malaysia through branch expansion Able to franchise the brand name of Asian Texas. Become a market leader in Malaysia The growing trend of eating outside. The growing trend of friend gathering for youngster.
Threats Health issues that concern about the bad effect in consuming meat. The competitors available in Premier 101 area can be a threat. There are many other caf and coffee shops who offer the similar menu and even lower price. Another threat can be the rising price of special ingredients such as sugar, flour and eggs. The inflation is a threat for Asian Texas as well.
5.2 PEST Analysis Political The government in Malaysia has established the Food Safety and Quality Division, Ministry of Health was established in order to ensure that the food processing activities are managed according to the required hygiene and safety standards (myGovernment, n.d.). It is essential for Asian Texas to ensure cleanliness of the caf since the food safety has been highly concerned. Malaysia government has imposed a high corporate tax rate of 25% (TaxRates, 2012). The corporate tax rate is quite high for Asian Texas as it is a new and small business with limited financial resources. According to Malaysian Labour Law, an employee should not work for more than 8 hours per day (JobsDB.com, 2012). Asian Texas will have to organize two shifts for the
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Apart from that, there are also other caf or restaurant which may become the potential threats for Asian Texas such as Asian Recipe, Koreana, Life Caf, Ipoh Town, and so on. Even though they are not offering the western cuisine but they can be one of the choices of the consumers. The coffee shops and food courts who offer lower price for both of the foods and beverages can be the potential threats as well.
Asian Texas has adopted the concept of cowboy as the selling point to compete with others in the competitive food service industry. This is because the concept of cowboy is relatively new in the Kuching market. By this way, Asian Texas is taking the first mover advantage which enables it to gain an edge over the competitors. Asian Texas offers a variety of foods which include breakfast, lunch, steak, burger, snack, desserts and even kids meal in order to fulfill the different tastes and preferences of the customers. The juicy sirloin steak serve with the mushroom or black pepper sauce is known as the signature dish in Asian Texas. The sirloin steak is a steak cut from the rear back portion of the beef. The chefs of Asian Texas will have the skills in cooking the sirloin steak and lock the flavor and juices in the steak. Apart from that, Asian Texas also offers healthy foods for the kids such as cereal and oat biscuits, wholegrain bread with cute design. Asian Texas offers a wide range of hot and cold beverages such as hot chocolate, soft drinks, fresh juice, milkshake, ice blended, beer, red wine, and so on. Therefore, these can be the selling points of Asian Texas.
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Companys Objectives: Achieve the awareness until 50% within the year of 2013. Achieve the responses from target market by 5% for every month.
7.2 Market Analysis Market analysis is a method the company uses to look at the market and determine out opportunities and threats as relate to the strength and weakness of the company (McGuigan, 2012). 7.2.1 Market Trends Based on the research that the Asian Texas had distributed, the result shows that there are 56% of the respondents are having their meals outside regularly. Now, there are more people understand on restaurant culture, so, people in Kuching would like to dinning outside. This reflects that the trends of the living style had changed. People prefer eating outside rather than eating at home. For example, as the living standard is improved, lots of the parents need to have worked in order to provide a better living environment for their family. Due to the reason parents have no enough time and energy for them to cook after they finish their work of the day. Therefore, people prefer to eat outside. Also, the youngest nowadays like to try all the new things. While there is a new caf or restaurant open, teenagers would like to go for a try with friends and even share or recommend the foods to others. Next, the areas population increases recently by the
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organization's overall marketing program intent to sustain and improve the competitive strength of the organization such as create customers value, market share, or profitability (Perner, 2008). A good objective will be measurable, attainable, and socially significant. In order to achieve plan objectives, marketers craft strategies regarding the 4P`s which are Product, Price, Place and Promotion (Small Business Notes, n.d.). Product A product is the benefit that satisfies the needs of organizations or customers and for which they are willing to exchange money (Mind Tools Ltd, 2012). Asian Texas is mainly selling the western foods and beverage for our customers. The products can be categories into breakfast, lunch set, main courses, appetizer, dessert, beverage, alcoholic beverage, and kids meals. The caf will focus more on the safety and quality of foods that serve to the customers. The caf will provide freshness and cleanness foods to the customers in order to fulfill their meets. In addition, the caf will also provide the healthy foods like focus the health of the kids which all the healthy foods is made by wholegrain or wholemeal bread, low- fat fillings, fresh variety fruits, less sugar drinks and so on. As the caf has a good environment for working adult to relax and enjoy the time with their friends, the caf has come out with the happy hours for the alcoholic beverage. Therefore, the caf would like to refresh the menu and always coming with new dishes in order to meet the customers need and to build long lasting relationship with them. Pricing Price is the value which a company provides to their products or services to their customers (Mind Tools Ltd, 2012). In other words, price is what a buyer pays to acquire products from a seller. Pricing is an important component that emerge the turnover of the organization. When owner begin with the business, marketers need to have good pricing strategy as to fulfill the ability of consumers purchasing power. With establish of pricing strategy, marketers need to focus on their consumers whether they are established price points for products or services (Mind Tools Ltd, 2012). If price is set too high or too low would bring a loss for the company (Learning Marketing, 2012).
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Customer walk in
Take order
The service process will start while the customer walks into the caf. The waiter or waitress will help the customer to look for an appropriate seat according to the preference of the customer. After that, the order process will begin. The menu will be passed to the customer while the waiter or waitress will list down the order and repeat the order as to confirm the order from the customer. Then, the waiter or waitress will send the order chip to the cashier counter to key in the order into the computer. The cashier will print out a copy for the chef assistant to prepare the ingredients and another copy for the customer to confirm the order. In the kitchen area, when the chef assistant receives the order chip, he will prepare the ingredients that needed for the dishes. The chef will cook the dishes in few minutes. After finishing cooking, the chef assistant will ring the bell for informing the waiter or waitress to serve the dishes to the customer. At the end of the service process, the receipt will be given to the customer for making payment after the customer finish consuming the meals.
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Tasks
Person Responsible
Lee Hui Sing, Fendri Hii Soon Ing, Fendri Hii Soon Ing
Conduct Meeting It is inevitable for every single business or organization to conduct a meeting before making any decision. The purpose of conducting meeting is to listen for different opinions or ideas from partners or friends. Therefore, in the very beginning before to really start the business plan, the
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Debt Capital Loan from CIMB bank Total Start-up Capital RM 50,000.00 RM 150,000.00
10.2 CAMPARI Character o All of the partners are experienced and have good reputation in their previous former employers where they were working with. o All of the partners are the customer of CIMB bank for more than 3 years. o Hii Soon Ing and Lee Hui Sing are the credit card holders for Maybank and CIMB bank in Malaysia. They have a good track record about the payment for the credit card. Ability o All of the partners are contributed into the business and all of us lead and handle different areas based on our experience and skills. o The unique concept of business, location and other competitive advantages have created and improved the level of confidence for the success of this business.
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Contribution Margin
Break-even Point
415,960.99 0.1692
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Gross Margin: 1st year (2012) Revenue Cost of Goods Sold Formula = Revenue 732400 = 817000 = 89.64% 2nd year (2013) 860900 = 960000 x 100% x 100% x 100%
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