Leadership and Team Building

Leadership and Team Building



Leadership and Team Building

Part 1

Introduction

There are a number of restaurants, cafés and hotels across the world, with some having local, and others having national fame. There are a very few eating places that gain the status of having international fame, and these are the ones most appreciated and valued by the tourists and the travelers. The article River Café mainly deals with the essential points and the leadership factors involved in running the restaurant successfully. The writers not only visited the place, but also met the important people running the restaurants, discussed the ideas that led to the formation of restaurant and also talked to the waiters and chefs, in order to get an overall idea regarding the working and running of the restaurant. Having national as well as international fame, River Café is counted as one of the most important restaurant in West London, and the following paragraphs highlight the essential factors involved in managing and maintaining the restaurant.

Discussion

The Café

River Café is counted as one of the best places to have Italian food in West London, and the reviews of the restaurant that appeared in The New Yorker forced the writer to visit the place and savor upon the delicacies offered by the place. The restaurant started by the efforts of the two owners, Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers, who started the business when they had little experience as chefs and no experience as business people. Both of them were trained as graphic designers and had experience in the same field, the both liked Italian food and the same liking bought them together and caused them to start the business.

The owners made sure that certain cooking criterion are met and a few guidelines are always kept in mind, for instance both of them aimed at creating the feeling of a family in the community and also a location where people can come to enjoy food (Chew, 2010, Pp: 29). This was also to create a place against those expensive and hard to reach restaurants that were not meat for everyone, and only the privileged ones got the opportunity to sit and eat food over there. However, with the passage of time, River Café gained popularity and it became a busy place, with a number of celebrities visiting the place and adding to the reputation of the café.

Leadership Styles and the theoretical framework

It is a well known fact that the success or failure of the organizations is highly dependent on the leadership styles of the leaders, with the leader being an individual who is capable of inspiring others and achieving a common goal. A number of different leaders have adopted various leadership styles, with some of them being successful and the others being a failure. The successful styles are followed by others n surge of gaining success themselves, but none of these styles can be termed as ideal, as all of them have certain flaws and short ...