Kudler Fine Foods
Staffing Strategies Paper
10/16/05
Staffing Strategies Paper
Every organization starts with an idea. It is the steps taken to activate that idea that helps
determine whether the company will be successful or not. Every one has their own criteria
of what successful is and in order to reach your desired goal, planning and evaluating are
critical. This paper will outline an organization called Kudler Fine Foods, and evaluate its
recruitment, staffing, and legal strategies that have enabled it to be profitable and growing.
Kudler Fine Foods
Kudler Fine Foods is a gourmet food shop that was originally opened in 1998 by founder
Kathy Kudler. Kudler, whose business experience includes a Vice-President position in
Marketing, discovered the need for a gourmet food shop that would allow customers the
ease of one stop shopping. She opened her first store in La Jolla, California. The success of
this store led to the expansion of two more in Del Mar and Encinitas, California.
Kudler Fine Foods mission statement is ”