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 500 customers per hour at its peak times. PizzaTime has collected the following information:
1. Average time to place and receive an order is 1.5 minutes.
2. 20 percent of customers require parking spots.
3. Average time customers stay at the restaurant is 20 minutes.
Find:
a) The number of cash registers required if 1 customer is on each order.
b) The number of cash registers required if 4 customers are on 1 order.
c) The number of parking spaces needed.
d) The number of tables needed (4 customers per 1 table).
e) Which of the operations is likely to be the bottleneck?