Why is the ingredient room so important to the foodservice industry, and what goes on in the ingredient room?

Work with a local foodservice manager and assist in standardizing a recipe for that operation.

Create a game that will help other students learn concepts related to production

Create a game that will help other students learn concepts related to production

Obtain a day’s menu from a local foodservice operation. Roleplay with class members the role the manager would have in conducting a production meeting with staff about the menu.

What are two ways to control quantity demand?

In groups of two or three, visit a local foodservice operation, observe production, and talk with the foodservice manager. Write a short paper summarizing how forecasting, production scheduling, and recipe adjustment are done at that operation.

In groups of two or three, visit a local foodservice operation, observe production, and talk with the foodservice manager. Write a short paper summarizing how forecasting, production scheduling, and recipe adjustment are done at that operation.

Discuss, using the foodservice systems model, how the following events might impact a foodservice operation:

• Loss of the lettuce crop in California because of excessive rain
• Delivery of 88-size oranges instead of the specified 113 size
• Addition of too much salt to the vegetable soup
• Absenteeism of the cook and dishwasher for the evening meal
• Low final rinse temperature in the dish machine

If the given statement is not in then form, rewrite it. Write the converse, inverse, and contrapositive of the given conditional statement. Determine the truth value of all four statements. If a statement is false, give a counterexample. Pianists are musicians.

A route sheet:

a) lists the operations necessary to produce a component.

b) is an instruction to make a given quantity of a particular item.

c) is a schematic showing how a product is assembled.

d) is a document showing the flow of product components.

e) all of the above.

Captain Borders Corp. manufacturers fishing equipment. Currently, the company has a plant in Los Angeles and a plant in New Orleans. William Borders, the firm's owner, is deciding where to build a new plant-Philadelphia or Seattle. Use the following table to find the total shipping costs for each potential site. Which should Borders select?

Compare how the corner-point and iso-profit line methods work for solving graphical problems.

Automobiles arrive at the drive-through window at the downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, post office at the rate of 4 every 10 minutes. The average service time is 2 minutes. The Poisson distribution is appropriate for the arrival rate and service times are negative exponentially distributed.

By how much would your answer to part (a) be reduced if a second drive-through window, with its own server, were added?