Example: Break-Even Analysis The school cafeteria can make pizza for about $0.30 per slice. . Cost for kitchen and labour is $200 per day The nearby Pizza Den delivers for $9.00 per pizza (8 slices). Cost for labour reduced to $75 per day Should they make or buy pizza? D.2003 Mahn-Hal Education.nl 32 HOME The newest battleground for the tech giants is being fought over smart home devices. Amazon's Echo was the first to hit the market in 2014, the smart speaker responds to voice commands and serves an ever-growing range of purposes, such as music streaming, news updates, Internet searches for information, grocery Ilsts, joke telling, takeout orders from local restaurants, and answers to general questions 35 Furthermore, in homes with other smart features, Echo and its volce personification, Alexa, allow users to control compatible lights, fans, thermostats, garage doors, sprinklers, and locks with simple voice commands 36 By 2017, Alexa even had the ability to call or send texts to the contacts in users' linked smartphones through Echo 37 Google's competing Google Home device did not even hit the shelves until April 201738 in some ways, Google Home is more advanced and smarter than Echo. For example, its Web browsing capabilities are more advanced because it relles on Google's stellar search engine, whereas Echo is limited to Wikipedia and Bing Google Home also can sync its audio playback with other devices and Google Cast speakers, 39 providing better playback and the option to insert linked devices throughout the house, such that even customers with big homes can engage in constant interactions with the central device. If a user moves from the downstairs family room, where a Google Home device is playing music, to the upstairs bedroom, as long as there is another device there, those elements sync and the user does not miss a beat of the song. Amazon's Echo can't do that Overall, though, the two devices have similar functionalities with some notable differences in the quality of the services they provide. Perhaps the biggest difference is how "smart the devices really are when it comes to responding to users' requests. in a study conducted by the digital agency 3601, in which researchers asked each device a series of 3,000 questions Google Type here to search 100 Rain showers