Sharing Planet Food & Services / Devry Welin Duri ... [et. al]

• Main Authors: Duri, Devry Welin, Melton Thomas, Melbiana Lucy, Jame Stephen, Nur Iman Adriana, Wahap, Siti Nurhafizah
• Format: Entrepreneurship Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); Study and teaching. Research
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/105816/1/105816.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/105816/

Sharing Planet is a western cuisine restaurant owned by Kenneth Tiong, a Chinese man graduated from Sunway College. He does not come from a family with a business background. His mother is a housewife meanwhile his father is one of the Managing Director for York Manufacturing Sendirian Berhad (Kuching Branch). Kenneth Tiong held a position as a Managing Director for Sharing Planet and was also the founder of the company. In 2007, Sharing Planet operated as a coffee shop at Stapok, but they did not receive enough support from the community. So, they decided to change their food line from a coffee shop to a western cuisine-based restaurant in 2008. After going through a big change, Sharing Planet has become the talk of the town as they are the only one that serving a biq oortion of western food during that time. They then expanded their branches throughout Kuching which are Sharing Downtown at Ban Hock Road, Sharing Too at CityOne Megamall and Sharing Tree at Metrocity. The company currently having 80 employees to operate all branches. The restaurant operating hour is from 11:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. and it is open every day. The diagram below shows the organizational structure for Sharing Planet Company.