Abstract— Innovation is a key factor for the competitiveness of SMEs, the service sector is characterized by recurring problems and fierce competition in a saturated market, causing these companies to reduce their profitability. This work presents an operational model to increase the performance of a coffee shop. For the design, a case study has been developed in “Puku Puku”, a coffee shop based in Peru. Applying the Huff Model, the company's competition was defined based on different relevant variables and, using benchmarking, a pricing strategy was implemented. For this purpose, a value was given to the distance from the premises to the consumer, price, location, customer satisfaction, among others; and the probability that a consumer would go to the different cafeterias in the studied area was obtained. Based on the results of this model, a report was made that provides a potential increase of 30% over the estimated income in the scenarios analyzed. The value of this research lies in the economic advantages that could be obtained by applying this model in a coffee shop business, with the possibility of being replicated in other areas. Keywords— Huff Model, coffee shops, SME’s, pricing, benchmarking, management model.
Operational Management Model to Increase the Performance of an SME in the Coffee Shop Sector: Puku Puku Case
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