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Question
PizzaTime Restaurants is building a new pizza place and needs to determine how big to make the various parts of its facility. It wants to be able to accommodate a maximum of 360 customers per hour at its peak times. PizzaTime has collected the following information: the average time to place and receive an order is 1.25 minutes, 45 percent of the customers have cars and require parking spots, and the average length of time at the restaurant is 20 minutes per customer. Assuming a capacity cushion of 20 percent.
Find the number of seats/tables needed. (assume 4 seats per table) (Round up your answer to the next whole number.)
PizzaTime Restaurants is building a new pizza place and needs to determine how big to make the various parts of its facility. It wants to be able to accommodate a maximum of 360 customers per hour at its peak times. PizzaTime has collected the following information: the average time to place and receive an order is 1.25 minutes, 45 percent of the customers have cars and require parking spots, and the average length of time at the restaurant is 20 minutes per customer. Assuming a capacity cushion of 20 percent.
Explanation / Answer
If 360 customers per hour arrive
Then on average=360/4 (seats per table)
=90 orders per hour will be placed
each one taking 1.25 minutes,then in one hour, roughly 60/1.25 =48 orders can be placed
Therefore number of seats=48*4=192
Therefore tables required=48/4=12
=48