Question

if your restaurant serves 50 bowls of French onion soup daily and each serving has 8 ounces of onion per portion. Do you think it would be better to purchase whole onions at $1.99 per pound, and cut them yourself, or purchase pre-sliced onions at $2.99 per pound? Explain your rationale using a cost and portion argument

Answer 1

The second option saves time and cleaning elements, so that one is better.

Which option is better?

We know that every day you sell a total of 50 bowls, and each one needs 8 oz of onion, this means that you need:

50*8 oz = 400 oz

So you need 400 ounces of onion per day.

If you buy at $1.99 per pound (1 lb = 16 oz)

Then the cost per ounce is:

c = $1.99/16

And the cost of 400 ounces is:

C = ($1.99/16)*400 = $49.75

In the case of the pre-sliced onions, the total cost would be:

C' = ($2.99/16)*400 = $74.75

So in the first case, each portion costs:

$49.75/50 = $0.995

And in the second case:

$74.75/50 =$1.495

So the extra cost is returned by the extra time and savings in cleaning elements, thus, the second option is better.

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