首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Cordia Harrington was tired of standing up all day and smelling like French fries at night. She also owned and operated three Mc
Cordia Harrington was tired of standing up all day and smelling like French fries at night. She also owned and operated three Mc
admin
2012-04-09
91
问题
Cordia Harrington was tired of standing up all day and smelling like French fries at night. She also owned and operated three McDonald’s franchises (特许经营店) in Illinois, but as a divorced mother of three boys, she yearned for a business that would provide for her children and let her spend more time with them.
Her turning moment struck, strangely enough, after she was nominated in 1992 to be on the McDonald’s bun committee. "The other franchisees, all men, thought that was funny because of the word bun," she recalls. "But the joke was on thems They didn’t know the company would be picking me up in a corporate jet to see bakeries around the world. Every time I went to a meeting, I loved it. This was global!" The experience opened her eyes to business possibilities. When McDonald’s decided it wanted a new bun supplier, Harrington became determined to win the contract, even though she had no experience running a bakery. "You see a tiny crack in the door, and you have to run through it," she says. "I really believed I could do this."
Harrington studied the bakery business and made sure she was never off executives’ view. "If you have a dream, you can’t wait for people to call you," she says. "So I’d visit a mill and send them photos of myself in a baker’s hat and jacket, holding a sign that said I want to be your baker." After four years and 32 interviews, her persistence paid off. Harrington sealed the deal with a handshake, sold her franchises, invested everything she owned, and borrowed $ 13.5 million. She was ready to build the fastest, most automated bakery in the world.
The Tennessee Bun Company opened ahead of schedule in 1997, in time for a decline in US fast-food sales for McDonald’s. Before Harrington knew it, she was down to her last $ 20 000, not enough to cover payroll. And her agreement with McDonald’s required that she sell exclusively to the company. "I cried myself to sleep many nights," she recalls. "I really did think, I am going to go bankrupt." But Harrington worked out an agreement to supply Pepperidge Farm as well. "McDonald’s could see a benefit if our production went up and prices went down, and no benefit if we went out of business," she says. "That deal saved us."
Over the next eight years, Harrington branched out even more: She started her own trucking business, added a cold-storage company, and now has three bakeries—all now known as the Bun Companies.
Harrington branched out and she has three bakeries with the common name of______.
选项
答案
the Bun Companies
解析
细节推断题。本题考查Harrington拓展经营领域后拥有的三家面包店的名字。文中最后提到all now known as the Bun Companies,即共同的名字就是the Bun Companies。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Q9E7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
In-ancientGreeceathleticfestivalswereveryimportantendhadstrongreligiousassociations.TheOlympianathleticfestivalh
PresidentCoolidge’sstatement,"ThebusinessofAmericaisbusiness",stillpointstoanimportanttruthtodaythatbusinessin
Tobesuccessfulinajob【B1】______,youshould【B2】______certainpersonalandprofessionalqualities.Youneedtocreateagoo
A、TheFederalgovernment.B、Individualschools.C、Respectivestates.D、Localcommunities.C根据原文andeachstateisresponsiblefor
TheEnglish,asarace,areverydifferentfromallothernationalities,includingtheirclosetneighbors,theFrench,Belgians,
TheEnglish,asarace,areverydifferentfromallothernationalities,includingtheirclosetneighbors,theFrench,Belgians,
A、Thedriver.B、Ten-year-oldJake.C、Thepolice.D、Thekidsonthebus.B司机下车后并没有关闭引擎,因此校车开始慢慢地滑动,车上的孩子们都尖叫起来,但是十岁的Jake抓住方向盘,用力地
Thisisarevisionpaper.Whenyoudoit,__________________(你最好在你有问题的地方做个标记).
A、Totellthedifferenceof"self-respect"and"self-esteem".B、Toillustratetheimportanceofthespeaker’sresearch.C、Toexp
A、Themanhasn’tsucceededinpaintinganypicturesyet.B、Themanhascometoanewunderstandingofpaintingpictures.C、Thew
随机试题
令人厌烦的a.b_____
下列检查结果提示肾衰患者进入尿毒症期的是
桑螵蛸散与天王补心丹中均含有的药物是()
下面所列选项中的哪一个在行政法上不具备行政主体资格?()
敞开式循环冷却水系统一般由()组成。①冷却水用水设备(如换热器、制冷机、注塑机等);②冷却塔;③集水设施(集水池或塔盘);④循环水泵;⑤循环水处理装置(旁滤、加药装置等);⑥补充水管、循环水管。
测设的三项基本工作包括()。
某单位转让:一幢位于城区的旧办公楼,原造价400万元,经房地产评估机构评定其重置成本为1200万元,成新度折扣率为七成,转让价格2000.万元,支付有关税费500万元,转让项目应纳土地增值税为()万元。
商业银行应制订交易账簿与银行账簿划分管理制度流程,通常由()负责制订交易账簿和银行账簿划分政策和程序。
下列生活常识中正确的是:
被假释的犯罪分子在假释考验期内具有下列哪种情形的,应当撤销假释?()
最新回复
(
0
)