Restaurant Restaurant guides review restaurants, often ranking them or providing information for consumer decisions (type of food, handicap accessibility, facilities, etc).
In 12th century signs could often be found posted in the city square listing the restaurants in the area and local customer's opinions of the quality of their food. This was an occasion for bribery and even violence.[citation needed] Today, restaurant review is carried out in a more civilized manner.
One of the most famous contemporary guides, in Western Europe, is the Michelin series of guides which accord from 1 to 3 stars to restaurants they perceive to be of high culinary merit. Restaurants with stars in the Michelin guide are formal, expensive establishments; in general the more stars awarded, the higher the prices. The main competitor to the Michelin guide in Europe is the guidebook series published by Gault Millau. Unlike the Michelin guide which takes the restaurant décor and service into consideration with its rating, Gault Millau only judges the quality of the food. Its ratings are on a scale of 1 to 20, with 20 being the highest. In the United States, the Mobil Travel Guides and the AAA rate restaurants on a similar 1 to 5 stars scale. Three, four, and five star/diamond ratings are roughly equivalent to the Michelin one, two, and three star ratings while one and two star ratings typically indicate more casual places to eat. In 2005, Michelin released a New York City guide, its first for the United States. The popular Zagat Survey compiles individuals' comments about restaurants but does not pass an "official" critical assessment. In the United States Gault Millau is published as the Gayot guide, after founder Andre Gayot. Its restaurant ratings use the same 20 point system, and are all published online. The Good Food Guide, published by the Fairfax Newspaper Group in Australia, is the Australian guide listing the best places to eat.
Chefs Hats are awarded for outstanding restaurants and range from one hat through three hats. The Good Food Guide also incorporates guides to bars, cafes and providers. The Good Restaurant Guide is another Australian restaurant guide that has reviews on the restaurants as experienced by the public and provides information on locations and contact details. Any member of the public can submit a review. Nearly all major American newspapers employ restaurant critics and publish online dining guides for the cities they serve. A few papers maintain a reputation for thorough and thoughtful review of restaurants to the standard of the good published guides, but others provide more of a listings service. More recently Internet sites have started up that publish both food critic reviews and popular reviews by the general public. This is a growing area and the market is still immature with no sites yet gaining dominant public or critical support. Several are gaining traction including Zagat.com, chowhound.com, and Fodors.com. Their major competition comes from bloggers and search engines since search engines often favor active bloggers over large somewhat static websites.
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At the top of Fortune Magazines Fortune 1000 list is Exxon Mobile with a profit of 45 Billion, 220 Million Dollars! Chevron isn’t far behind with a hefty 23 Billion, 995 Million. Big Oil is still Big Business.
Lets not forget the second place winner, Walmart!
The following are the top 10 largest corporations in America.
With so many job lay offs, here is a list of companies with hundreds of jobs, according to money.cnn.com.
Walmart has thousands of jobs available across the country.
Hewlett Packard has 150 jobs, even Bank of America has 1860 job openings. State farm has over 800 job openings. Others on the list include Microsoft, Boeing, MetLife, UPS, Medco, Lowes, Time Warner, Sears, Super Value, Johnson Controls, GMAC, Comcast, Northrop, Coca Cola, New York Life, Aetna, Motorola, Abbott, General Dynamics, Prudential, Humana, Liberty Mutual and HCA which boasts 9000 openings.
Checking on the top ten industries this year, the top six are oil related!
Pipelines 6. Energy
Engineering, Construction 7. Construction and Farm Machinery
Petroleum Refining 8. Metals
Mining Crude-Oil production 9. Food Production
Oil and Gas Equipment, Services 10. Industrial Machinery
There you have it, Big Oil, Big Business, Big Industry!
From 1895-1905, the United States industry underwent major reorganization that had long term impacts on the structure of businesses. Small firms consolidated into giants with a large market share. These mergers involved mass producers of homogeneous goods that exploited efficiencies of volume production. They were generally capital-intensive with high fixed costs; when demand fell, output would remain steady and prices would fall instead. In theory, these mergers were economically viable in the long run because the largest firm would take the supply decisions of independents as given and set the monopoly price above the competitive price. In practice, companies faced the challenge of deterring new entrants that would threaten the market share of the dominant firm. One solution to the problem of new entrants to the market was setting a “limit price” at which the dominant firm would make a profit, and the small independent firms would break even. The problem with this however was that the dominant firms would face higher costs than competitors. Other solutions to the new entrant problem included short-term price wars and the creation of entry barriers. Moreover, some companies chose to differentiate their products in order to reduce the price elasticity of demand. This movement and consolidation formed the foundation for what was later coined as "big business."
Long-run factors which led to the rise of big business include technological change, which increased the efficient size of plants from non-mechanized factories with very few workers to large, modern industries, and reductions in transportation costs, which made it easier to produce goods in one location and ship to markets around the country.
