Question: Center City Cake Shoppe spends $ 1 5 in making each cake, and has a regular selling price of $ 2 5 . For every

Center City Cake Shoppe spends $15 in making each cake, and has a regular selling price of $25.
For every customer facing a stockout, the Cake Shoppe has estimated that there is a goodwill loss of $5(over and above the lost margin on that sale).
Unsold cakes at the end of the day are sold below cost, at $10, and are always sold off before the store closes for the night.
Given this data, is 90% service level the appropriate service level? Remember, their daily demand distribution is:
DemandProbability50.1060.1570.2580.2590.15100.10
Group of answer choices
90% is too low.
90% is too high.
90% is high, but because of rounding, the effective service level will be 90%.
Not enough information.

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