Culinary Case Study Final Paper

Key Variables that Differentiate Star Performing Chefs from Non-Star Performing Chefs.

Introduction

Your corporation is opening a new line of fine cuisine restaurants around the world. They project opening close to 100 new restaurants and will need to hire at least two managing chefs per restaurant. The Vice President of Operations (VPO) has asked you, the Director of Human Resources, to be in charge of interviewing and hiring the 200 Chefs. You will need to complete this task over the next year.

To facilitate this process, the VPO has asked you to conduct research to examine the demographic variables associated with Chef’s who have received high client satisfaction ratings and have been awarded the Michelin Star for excellence in cooking. Michelin stars are a rating system used by the red Michelin Guide to grade restaurants on their quality. The VPO wants to use this demographic information as the basis for interviewing and selecting Chefs to work in his restaurants. More specifically, he wants you to investigate attributes such as country of origin, work experience, salary, employment type (e.g., Restaurant Owner, Franchise Owner, or Salaried Chef), cuisine preference (e.g., Chicken, Seafood or Beef), emotional intelligence, client satisfaction ratings and yearly culinary ratings to determine which best predicts a great chef? Which qualities are essential to be a great chef?

Over the next month you recruited and studied three different chefs focus groups. Each group spent an entire week with your research team. The research team did not know whether a Chef had received a Michelin Star or not (i.e., a double-blind study). That information was only known by you and the VPO. During the visit to your headquarters, each Chef was subjected to structured interviews and various assessments in order to test each of the 12 research questions. Focus Group 1 was comprised of 20 Chef’s from the United States, Focus Group 2 was comprised of 20 Chef’s from France, and Focus Group 3 was comprised of 20 Chef’s from England. The Chefs’ were not allowed to discuss their experience or background with other Chef’s in the focus group.

This research paper will serve as a final project for this course as you will be examining 13 different research hypotheses. The results of each research statement or hypothesis will provide you with a piece of the puzzle to make your final conclusions. Your paper should provide a clear recommendation as to what factors or variables differentiate the star performing chefs from the non-star performing chefs. The paper should include the following sections: Title page, Introduction, Sample, Methods, Results, Conclusions, References, Appendices (if needed), and Tables (if needed). The paper is worth 200 points. Good luck.

Research Paper Sections

1. Title Page
   A title should summarize the main idea of the manuscript simply and, if possible, with style. It should be a concise statement of the main topic and should identify the variables or theoretical issues under investigation and the relationship between them.
2. Introduction

Introduce the problem in this section. The body of a manuscript opens with an introduction that presents the specific problem under study and describes the research study. When writing the introduction, you should consider the following questions:

• What is the purpose of the study?
• What problems or opportunities are you studying?
• Why is this problem important?
• What decisions are you trying to make?
• Who is our audience we want to inform?
• What are the general objectives of the study?
• What are the practical implications for the study?

1. Sample

• Who are you studying and what are their descriptive characteristics?

1. Methods

• Description of the variables and their analysis qualities (e.g., quantitative or qualitative) to be studied.
• Types and purposes of analyses to be used in the study.

1. Results (Correlations, t-tests, regression and ANOVA)

• Hypothesis statements
• Statistical results
• Will you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis?
• Non-statistical interpretation, including the means and standard deviations

1. Conclusions

• What are the most important variables in predicting whether a chef will receive a high culinary rating or Michelin Star?
• Focus on the most important findings.
• What are your recommendations?
• What follow-up questions remain to be answered (e.g., further research)?

1. References
2. Appendices (if necessary)
3. Tables and/or figures (if necessary)

The following represents a list of 13 research questions that will be analyzed as part of your paper.

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