Question

A fast-food restaurant serves hamburgers, cheeseburgers, and chicken sandwiches. The restaurant counts a cheeseburger as equivalent to 1.28 hamburgers and chicken sandwiches as 0.79 hamburger. Current employment is eight full-time employees who each work a 40-hour week. a. If the restaurant sold 750 hamburgers, 915 cheeseburgers, and 510 chicken sandwiches in one week, what is its productivity? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Productivity hamburger equiv per labor hr b. What would its productivity have been if it had sold the same number of sandwiches (2,175), but the mix was 725 of each type? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Productivity hamburger equiv per labor hr

Answer 1

For Question 1: Given output/ Sold out Data for a week, 750 Hamburgers, 915 cheeseburgers = “(1.28 X 915) Hamburgers = 1171.2 Hamburgers 510 chicken sandwiches = (0.79 X 510) Hamburgers = 403 Hamburgers As The restaurant counts a cheeseburger as equivalent to 1.28 hamburgers and chicken sandwiches as 0.79 hamburger. So, for a week, total Hamburgers = (750 +1171 + 403) Hamburgers = 2324 Hamburgers Given Input Data for a week, There are total 8 Employees and each works 40 hours a week, So Total Input Hours = Number of Employee X Hours per week per Employee = 8 X 40 = 320 Employee Hours

Answer for Question 1: Productivity for the same week = Output / Input = 2324 Hamburgers / 320 Labor Hours Productivity for the same week = 7.26 Hamburgers / Labor Hours   (Rounded to 2 decimal places)

For Question 2: Given output/ Sold out Data for a week, 725 hamburgers, 725 cheeseburgers = (1.28 X 725) hamburgers = 928 hamburgers and 725 chicken sandwiches = (0.79 X 725) hamburgers = 573 hamburgers As The restaurant counts a cheeseburger as equivalent to 1.28 hamburgers and chicken sandwiches as 0.79 hamburger. So, for a week, total Hamburgers = (725 +928 + 573) Hamburgers = 2226 Hamburgers Given Input Data for a week, There are total 8 Employees and each works 40 hours a week, So Total Input Hours = Number of Employee X Hours per week per Employee = 8 X 40 = 320 Employee Hours

Answer for Question 2: Productivity for the same week = Output / Input = 2226 Hamburgers / 320 Labor Hours Productivity for the same week = 6.96 Hamburgers/Labor Hours (Rounded to 2 decimal places)