Reference no: EM131697399
Famous Subs and Pizza Company (FSPC) is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida, operating restaurants in ten states. The company also owns a food processing and distribution facility in Jackson, Mississippi. Approximately 20% of the employees work full time; however, FSPC primarily hires part-time employees as delivery drivers, cooks, and sandwich makers. FSPC leases space for most of its restaurants in shopping centers, but the company owns a few of the properties as well as its headquarters office and the distribution facility. The company experienced explosive growth over the last three years, but with the growth came increased legal issues. The CEO, Chip Stone, seeks your advice on the following legal and ethical issues.
S1: Business Organizations
Charmaine, Delia, and Mary met while working for FSPC in Atlanta, Georgia. Charmaine was attending college to earn a degree in management. Delia was attending culinary school to become a chef, and Mary was a recent graduate in sales and marketing. The three ladies decided to open their own sandwich restaurant on wheels, also known as a food truck. They planned to start small with one truck but had big dreams to own a whole fleet of trucks that served a variety of foods.
Charmaine took a business law class and remembers there are several forms for organizing businesses. The ladies have come to you for advice about the various forms of business organizations.
- Analyze three forms of business organizations including advantages and disadvantages related to the business the ladies plan to operate.
- Defend selection of one of the three types of business form for the new business, including the requirements for starting that form of business in your state.
|
Ownership of the invention under the following assumptions
: Evaluate the arguments for FSPC and Devlin concerning ownership of the invention under the following assumptions:
|
|
What is the present value of annuity payment
: What's the present value of a $660 annuity payment over five years if interest rates are 9 percent
|
|
How might you define a barrier to entry
: How might you define a barrier to entry? Sunk cost has been said to be a barrier to entry. Explain why this might be true.
|
|
Did alex handle the situation properly
: Within ten days Alex received two checks in the mail, each in the amount of $296. Did Alex handle the situation properly
|
|
Requirements for starting that form of business
: Defend selection of one of the three types of business form for the new business, including the requirements for starting that form of business in your state.
|
|
How much would its value change
: A perpetuity pays $160 per year and interest rates are 8.1 percent. How much would its value change if interest rates increased to 9.6 percent
|
|
There are several types of fallacies
: There are several types of fallacies - equivocation, false authority, ad hominem, appeal to ignorance, and bandwagon.
|
|
Create and evaluate a health promotion program
: Create and evaluate a health promotion program that targets one of the following issues: Tobacco Cessation, Diabetes, Obesity and Substance Abuse.
|
|
Explain how you would use the pest tool to assist marketers
: Select an existing company in your community, and think about applying the political, economic, social, and technological (PEST) analysis to this company.
|