Cost Behavior Analysis in a Restaurant: High-Low Cost Estimation Assume a Papa John's restaurant has the following information available regarding costs at representative levels of monthly sales:

	Monthly sales in units
	5,000	8,000	10,000
Cost of food sold	$10,000	$16,000	$20,000
Wages and fringe benefits	4,200	4,320	4,400
Fees paid delivery help	1,100	1,760	2,200
Rent on building	1,800	1,800	1,800
Depreciation on equipment	700	700	700
Utilities	300	360	400
Supplies (soap, floor wax, etc.)	200	260	300
Administrative costs	1,200	1,200	1,200
Total	$19,500	$26,400	$31,000

(a) Identify each cost as being variable, fixed, or mixed. Cost of food sold AnswerVariableFixedMixed Wages and fringe benefits AnswerVariableFixedMixed Fees paid delivery help AnswerVariableFixedMixed Rent on building AnswerVariableFixedMixed Depreciation on equipment AnswerVariableFixedMixed Utilities AnswerVariableFixedMixed Supplies (soap, floor wax, etc.) AnswerVariableFixedMixed Administrative costs AnswerVariableFixedMixed (b) Use the high-low method to develop a schedule identifying the amount of each cost that is fixed per month or variable per unit. Total the amounts under each category to develop an equation for total monthly costs.

Round variable cost answers to two decimal places.

	Fixed Costs	Variable Costs
Cost of food sold
Wages and fringe benefits
Fees paid delivery help
Rent on building
Depreciation on equipment
Utilities
Supplies (soap, floor wax, etc.)
Administrative costs
Total costs equation

(c) Predict total costs for a monthly sales volume of 9,100 units. $Answer