A seafood restaurant in a beach resort town has a fixed (unavoidable) cost of $1,000 per month and variable (avoidable) costs of another $1,000 per month. Its total revenues over the six warm months amount to $17,000, so that its profit for this period is $5,000. Its total revenues over the other six cold months are only $7,000, however, so that it loses $5,000 over those months, and just breaks even over the year as a whole. Wouldn't the restaurant do better by staying closed out of season?