Essays on Fresh Food

Food is a basic commodity needed to sustain life and as such, it must be safe to eat. Despite the innumerable controversies that abound regarding the ingredients and additives in our food and sage advice from many professional sources and health gurus arguing to the contrary, this paper will support the thesis that, for most people, our food supply is safe. While accepting that prepared foods may contain additives and preservatives, these are necessary to allow manufacturers to bring food safely into our homes. Preservatives and additives are necessary to ensure that our food supply is safe, but ultimately ...

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Associate Professor

Health Science Department; Master of Science in Health Administration and Leadership    

Winter 2016

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Acknowledgements

This project paper demonstrates the integration of the knowledge I acquired from the courses in Master of Health Administration and Leadership Program and the collaborative application with this project’s community partner, MidMichigan Health to improve the community health in Gratiot County, Michigan. I am thankful for getting this valuable opportunity to work with a large healthcare organization. First and foremost, I would like to thank my parents who worked really hard to financially and emotionally support me in pursuing further education overseas. They comfort me every ...

List of Figures

Figure 1: Simon Sinek's Golden Circle 4

List of Tables

Introduction Subway, the world’s largest restaurant franchise, was founded in 1965 by a 17-year old college going kid, Fred DeLuca as a means of fulfilling his dream of becoming a medical doctor. He was looking for a way to earn money to pay for his college and had money only to eat burgers in restaurants. His family friend, Dr. Peter Buck, loaned him a 1000 USD and suggested that he open a submarine sandwich restaurant in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Based on his experience of eating unhealthy burgers, Fred DeLuca wanted to focus ...

Business Plan

Executive Summary 3 1.0 Introduction 4 2.0 Operations plan 5 2.1 Location and facilities 5 2.2 Business processes 6 2.3 Distribution and outsourcing 9 3.0 Organizational plan 10 3.1 Management 11 3.2 Mission 12 3.3 Purpose 13 3.4 Vision 13 3.5 Legal structure 13 3.6 Organizational chart 14 4.0 Marketing plan 16 4.1 Price 16 4.2 Product 17 4.3 Place 19 4.4 Promotion 20 5.0 Financial plan 21 6.0 Growth plan 22 7.0 Contingency and harvest strategy 23 8.0 Timeline to launch the plan 25 9.0 References 28 10.0 Appendices 29

Executive summary

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Question 1

Effective supply chain plays a critical role in a nosiness. It is worth noting that the Darden’s restaurant have focused on enhancing supply chain on achieving competitive advantage. Darden’s is a restaurant that has unique supply chains. The supply chain is streamlined towards the menu options provided by the restaurant. The restaurant has four supply chains. Each of the Darden’s supply chain has specific advantages. The first supply chain is the Darden Direct Distribution. The advantage is that it reduced the shipping prices of various small items. This is because a single warehouse has items that ...

Food deserts are those areas within cities where the local population has no or little access to fresh fruits and healthy vegetables. There is evidence that the food desert areas are more prevalent in the lower income neighborhoods. Lack of healthy foods leads to obesity and health ailments such as heart disease and diabetes. It is also seen that the neighborhoods with low-income are mostly African American. The essay discusses the Food deserts, what they mean and who is affected and how. Research works on food deserts in Baltimore city are looked into and how a lack of nutritious ...