A new pop-up restaurant serving high-end street tacos just opened and is expected to have high demand based on the chef's prior restaurant experience. The pop-up restaurant has only one window where customers order and receive their food. It takes an average of 5 minutes to serve a customer. There is no seating available so the customer exits the system after receiving their order. Due to the creative marketing strategy of "hiding" the restaurant location, only 10 customers arrive per hour. There is no specific pattern to the distribution of time between arrivals or service times, but from historical data from prior pop-ups, the coefficient of variation for the time between arrivals (Ca) is 2.58, and service time (Cs) is 0.75. What is the arrival rate of this process?  

Answer rating: 100% (QA)

To calculate the arrival rate of the process we need to determine the average time between customer arrivals The coefficient of variation Ca for the time between arrivals is given as 258 The coefficie... View the full answer