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A Summer Internship Programme
A Summer Internship Programme
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2021-22
By
ARUNIM ISHAN
19DMB010
School of Management
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DECLARATION
I Arunim Ishan 19DMB010 hereby declare that this project work is the result of my own
research and no part of it has been presented for any other degree in this university or
elsewhere. I am solely responsible for any error found in this work
. Date: …………………….
Place: ……………………..
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
A successful project can never be prepared by the single effort or the person to whom project
is assigned, but it also demands the help and guardianship of some conversant person who
helps in the undersigned actively or passively in the completion of successful project. It is my
honour to get an opportunity to pursue my summer internship with COOX, Greater Noida. I
would like to thank COOX for giving me an opportunity to undertake a summer internship in
the company. My special thanks to Mr Akshat Gupta and Mr Abhishek Gupta, owners of the
COOX for providing me all needed information to complete my project. I extend my sincere
gratitude to Miss Neeti Rana for providing all help to complete my project. I would also like
to thank my faculty for providing their guidance. Finally I would like to thank my family and
friends for giving me constant support or encouragement.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SR NO PARTICULAR PAGE NO
NUMBER 1 INTRODUCTION
NUMBER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW
NUMBER 3 DETAILED STUDY
NUMBER 4 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
NUMBER 5 ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
NUMBER 6 FINDINGS, SUGGESTIONS
NUMBER 7 CONCLUSION
NUMBER BIBLIOGRAPHY
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NUMBER ANNEXURE
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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION TO COMPANY
ORIGIN
Akshat Gupta, the founder, loved South Indian food. One Sunday afternoon, he was
expecting a few guests and wanted to have Rawa Masala Dosa. He didn't want to go to a
restaurant or cook at home because it was too much effort. He didn’t want to order online
because dosas turn soggy and lifeless on delivery. The idea struck him! Why couldn't a
professional chef come home and make crispy dosas?
ABOUT
COOX is a one-of-a-kind website that allows users to book a chef for house party, birthday
party, kitty party, or other special event. It prepares a wide variety of cuisines, including
North and South Indian, Chinese, Continental, Italian, and more. It is currently operating in
Delhi, Noida, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, and Greater Noida and has a network of over
1000+ professionals who have helped it to deliver a service of the highest quality. Hire the
best cooks and chefs in Delhi NCR for house parties, birthday parties and other special
occasions and enjoy a variety of dishes from all over the world prepared hot and fresh in your
kitchen. COOX has redefined the idea of booking an online cook. You can hire a cook for a
day or multiple days to get a fine dining experience at your home, and you can do that in five
simple steps. Having opened in the covid scenario, the company prides itself in its hygiene
and cleanliness, making it a hit among the customer
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COOX started off in July 2018 with Mr Akshat Gupta, a pass out of IMT Hyderabad and Mr
Abhishek Gupta, a pass out of IMT Ghaziabad at the helm. It initially started off with Chef
Sanjay Sharma, an esteemed chef at The Hyatt, offering his services in Delhi. With due time,
as the team started to acquire more and more chefs from around NCR, it expanded its
services in Noida before expanding in chronological order in Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Gurgaon
and Greater Noida. As of Oct 2020, at the point of my internship completion, COOX had
started off its service in Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad with plans to start services in
Coimbatore next.
Having established its presence in the Chef at home sphere, the company has started dealing
in Bartending, Utensils, Party entertainers, Waiters etc. offering an all-around experience to
its customers.
The company tapped into the corporate market, having served at CP Gurnani's, the CEO of
Tech Mahindra.
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Company Profile
EMAIL : hello@coox.in
WEBSITE : www.coox.in
Ghaziabad, Mumbai,
Bangalore, Hyderabad
EST. : 2021
TURNOVER : Confidential
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LOGO
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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION TO TOPIC
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The terms customer and consumer are nearly synonymous and are often used
interchangeably. However, there exists a slight difference. Consumers are defined as
individuals or businesses that consume or use goods and services. Customers are the
purchasers within the economy that buy goods and services, and they can exist as consumers
or alone as customers.
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By definition, customer expectations are any set of behaviors or actions that individuals
anticipate when interacting with a company. Historically, customers have expected basics
like quality service and fair pricing — but modern customers have much higher expectations,
such as proactive service, personalized interactions, and connected experiences across digital
channels.
76% of customers expect consistent interactions across departments, yet 54% say it
generally feels like sales, service, and marketing teams don’t share information
74% of customers have used multiple channels to start and complete a transaction
66% of customers expect companies to understand their unique needs and expectations,
yet 66% say they’re generally treated like numbers
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69% of customers believe companies should offer new ways to get existing products and
services in the wake of the pandemic, and 54% believe they should offer entirely new
products and services
In this era of exponentially disruptive technological change, products and services that are cutting
edge one day are outdated the next. In this context, the experience a company offers is
increasingly its differentiator. But the scope of customer experience is changing, too. To win
hearts and wallets, companies must not only deliver amazing marketing, sales, ecommerce, and
service interactions, but also prove that they have the customers’ best interests in mind.
"Customer expectation is a belief that something will happen because it is meant to happen in a
particular service" - Wehmeier, 2000
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WHAT IS A GAP?
Performance gap analysis determines what aspects are lacking in the performance of an
employee in a particular position or of a company in comparison with its competitors. In
both instances, actual performance is measured in comparison with standards established by
benchmarks for acceptable performance in that position. An alternate type of performance
gap analysis determines what additional skills and training may be needed to bring
individual employees or an entire company up to an acceptable standard when specific
aspects of jobs change. This second type of performance gap analysis often occurs when
new technologies are introduced into a workplace.
Performance Mapping
One of the first tasks in performance gap analysis is creating a performance map describing
the behaviors of high-performing individuals in a particular job role. This performance map
provides a blueprint against which to compare the performance of employees. A
comparison of the performance map with the performance of your employees can disclose
the source of gaps in the performance of average employees or sub-par employees in
comparison with high-performing workers. A different performance map would apply to
each job role within your company.
Depending on the results of the performance gap analysis, your plan of action may involve
additional training for your staff, purchasing new equipment or making alterations in the
design and logistics of your office or manufacturing plant. You may also decide to replace
one or more members of your staff, or to reorganize your company's management structure.
A follow-up performance gap analysis performed after changes have been implemented can
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determine whether the deficiencies and shortcomings evident in the first evaluation have
been remedied.
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Organisational Overview
COOX is a unique platform that let's a person book a chef for a house party, birthday party,
kitty party, and other special occasions.
They do a spectrum of cuisines ranging from North Indian to South Indian, Chinese,
Continental, Italian and more.
The organization is headed by Akshat Gupta, the CEO of the company. The marketing
department is led by Abhishek Gupta, CMO and Rajat Johri handles the Technical
department in the CTO position.
The company started off in July, 2017 and started off in Delhi NCR before expanding into
Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Some of its prominent customers include CP Gurnani,
the CEO of Tech Mahindra and Daler Mehandi, famous Indian Singer.
The key mission is to provide food to every corner of the India, without compromising on the
taste or the quality.
Boasting a team of Individuals, it works with progressive and scalable thinking so that the
rapid expansion work can be done.
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COMPETITORS
The team has quite a bit of competitors as well in the Chef at home market.
Companies like Chefkart, Cheffed, MiumMium are pushing hard to get a share of the market.
However, the closest competitor that COOX has is Garniche, who has a significant number of
customers secured in Delhi NCR.
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS
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NOTABLE CUSTOMERS
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LITERATURE REVIEW
A literature review is an overview of the previously published works on a specific topic. The
term can refer to a full scholarly paper or a section of a scholarly work such as a book, or an
article.
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LITERATURE REVIEW
Servqual Framework has been used to great effect in various industries and services, however it has
never been implemented on a service as niche as this. This is why, it forms the basis of my research
and I'll be using it to backup my findings.
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- Brainstorming
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
WHAT IS RESEARCH?
We take a set of data, analyze it and then interpret the result to decide the
suggestions. This is the process of research
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RESEARCH PROCESS
Collect data
Identifying Gaps
Finalising suggestions
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REESEARCH DESIGN
A research design is a framework or blue print for conducting the marketing research project.
Research design is an important and the vital part of the research. It details the steps
necessary for obtaining the information needed to structure or solve marketing problems.
Research design provides an excellent framework for the research plan of action
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RESEARCH FRAMEWORK
SERVQUAL FRAMEWORK
SERVQUAL is founded on the view that the customer’s assessment of SQ is paramount. This
assessment is conceptualized as a gap between what the customer expects by way of SQ from
a class of service providers (say, all opticians), and their evaluations of the performance of a
particular service provider (say a single Specsavers store). SQ is presented as a
multidimensional construct. In their original formulation Parasuraman et al. (1985) identified
FIVE components of SQ:
1 reliability
2 responsiveness
3 Assurance
4 Empathy
5 tangibles.
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PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION
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DATA COLLECTION
Type of Data
Primary Data
Primary data refers to the first hand data gathered by the researcher himself. Secondary data
means data collected by someone else earlier. Surveys, observations, experiments,
questionnaire, personal interview, etc. Government publications, websites, books, journal
articles, internal records etc. Anything you directly analyze or use as first-hand evidence can
be a primary source, including qualitative or quantitative data that you collected yourself
Secondary Data
Secondary data is the data that has already been collected through primary sources and made
readily available for researchers to use for their own research. It is a type of data that has
already been collected in the past.
A researcher may have collected the data for a particular project, then made it available to be
used by another researcher. The data may also have been collected for general use with no
specific research purpose like in the case of the national census.
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POPOULATION OF STUDY
Areas : Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Mumbai, Bangalore,
Hyderabad
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FEEDBACK QUESTIONNAIRE
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ANS 9 : No suggestion
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ANS 10 : 2/5 overall, chef was very sweet but the taste was awful.
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ANS 10 : 0/5 overall, chef was rude and did not know how to cook and did not even clean.
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Series 2 Series 3
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Customer 1 Customer 2 Customer 3 Customer 4 Customer 5 Customer 6 Customer 7
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Interpretation : Almost 90% customers were satisfied with the chef behaviour
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Customer 1 Customer 2 Customer 3 Customer 4 Customer 5 Customer 6 Customer 7
Series 3
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Customer 1 Customer 2 Customer 3 Customer 4 Customer 5 Customer 6 Customer 7
Series 3
Interpretation : Almost 60% customers are greatly satisfied with chef appearance
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Cleanliness
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Customer 1 Customer 2 Customer 3 Customer 4 Customer 5 Customer 6 Customer 7
Series 3
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Chart Title
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Customer 1 Customer 2 Customer 3 Customer 4 Customer 5 Customer 6 Customer 7
Series 3
Interpretation : Most customers who did not rate it as five quoted chef behaviour,
cleanliness and food taste as the reasons.
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FINDINGS
As you can observe, the customers have identified a variety of critical factors in their reviews on
which they offer their feedback on :
1. Chef Arrival
3. Trust factor
4. Employee Competency
5. Chef behaviour
7. Employee behaviour
8. Customer service
15. Cleanliness
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MAPPINGS
CONCLUSION
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From this research, we can conclude that there are still significant gaps between Managerial
perceptions and customer expectations in the chef at home consumer service. Some of the
prominent issues are cleanliness, taste of the food not meeting standards advertised etc.
To counter these issues, I have listed down these in the following page.
MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS
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This study has significant implications for managers. It provides a list of pain points or gaps,
that need to be addressed to establish oneself in a highly competitive market. Moreover, the
positive feedback can be enhanced using value added services to further gain a competitive
edge. For ex : The management can clearly focus on advertising and promotion in order to
spread the name of COOX in what is a very niche service.
1. Bartending
2. Party decorations
3. Party entertainers
SUGGESTIONS
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After analyzing the data and mapping the gaps on the framework, I have also identified certain
points of improvement where the company can improve
3. Customer interaction - Train and Develop the sales and operations team better
5. The company can go for more promotional activities like digital ads and TV Commercials
LIMITATIONS
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1. Limited ability to gain access to a huge number of people for the survey study
depends on having access to people, organizations, or documents and because
of me leaving the internship,the access was denied.
3. Time constraints
4. Certain self reported data - self-reported data contain several potential sources
of bias that should be noted as limitations: (1) selective memory (remembering
or not remembering experiences or events that occurred at some point in the
past); (2) telescoping [recalling events that occurred at one time as if they
occurred at another time]; (3) attribution [the act of attributing positive events
and outcomes to one's own agency but attributing negative events and
outcomes to external forces];
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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WEBSITE
1. www.coox.in
2. https://www.academia.edu/15735540/A_SUMMER_INTERNS
HIP_REPORT
3. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/026420691000000
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4. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-32827-
8_20
5. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi
ANNEXURE
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QUESTIONNAIRE
FEEDBACK QUESTIONNAIRE
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