Question

A fast-food restaurant serves hamburgers, cheeseburgers, and chicken sandwiches. The restaurant counts a cheeseburger as equivalent to 1.25 hamburgers and chicken sandwiches as 0.8 hamburger. Current employment is fi ve full-time employees who work a 40-hour week. If the restaurant sold 700 hamburgers, 900 cheeseburgers, and 500 chicken sandwiches in one week,
what is its productivity?
What would its productivity have been if it had sold the same number of sandwiches (2,100), but the mix was 700 of each type?

Answer 1

Answer: 11.125 and 10.675

Explanation:

1. Hamburgers = 700

Cheese burgers = 900 * 1.25 = 1125.

Chicken sandwich = 0.8* 500 = 400

Hamburger = 700+1125+400 = 2225

Total input hours = 5* 40hrs = 200hrs

Productivity = output / input

= 2225 / 200 = 11.125.

2. Productivity had it sold same number of sandwiches 2100 but 700 for each.

Hamburgers = 700

Cheese burgers = 700 * 1.25 = 875.

Chicken sandwich = 0.8* 700 = 560

Hamburger = 700+875+560 = 2135

Total input hours = 5* 40hrs = 200hrs

Productivity = output / input

= 2135 / 200 = 10.675.