Question: Problem 1 5 - 2 5 ( Algorithmic ) Burger Dome sells hamburgers, cheeseburgers, French fries, soft drinks, and milk shakes, as well as a
Problem Algorithmic
Burger Dome sells hamburgers, cheeseburgers, French fries, soft drinks, and milk shakes, as well as a limited number of specialty items and dessert selections. Although Burger Dome would like to serve each customer immediately, at times more customers arrive than can be handled by the Burger Dome food service staff. Thus, customers wait in line to place and receive their orders. Suppose that Burger Dome analyzed data on customer arrivals and concluded that the arrival rate is customers per hour and customer processed per minute.
Compare a multipleserver waiting line system with a shared queue to a multipleserver waiting line system with a dedicated queue for each server. Suppose Burger Dome establishes two servers but arranges the restaurant layout so that an arriving customer must decide which server's queue to join. Assume that this system equally splits the customer arrivals so that each server sees half of the customers. How does this system compare with the twoserver waiting line system with a shared queue? Compare the average number of customers waiting, average number of customers in the system, average waiting time, and average time in the system. If required, round your answers to four decimal places.
Comparing these numbers, it is clear that the shared single queue quad results in better process performance than the
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