Question: Question 2 ( 1 5 points ) Basil and Veg is a small restaurant in the Diamond Bar area, which serves authentic Thai food. The

Question 2(15 points) Basil and Veg is a small restaurant in the Diamond Bar area, which serves authentic Thai food. The restaurant has 40 seats and is always full during its evening operation of six hours (5 pm to 11 pm ). It is not possible to make reservations, and there is always a waiting line (restaurant running at its full capacity). On average, a guest spends one hour in the restaurant, which includes: -5 minutes wait after seated and until the waiter has taken the order, -10 minutes until the food is served, -40 minutes to eat, and -5 minutes to handle the check-out. It takes the restaurant 10 minutes to clean the table and have it ready for the next guests (of which there are always plenty). The average revenue from each customer is \(\$ 30\). The restaurant has 8 waiters and 8 kitchen employees, each earning \(\$ 150\) per evening (including any preparation, the 6 hours the restaurant is open, and clean-up). An average order costs \(\$ 10\) in materials, including \(\$ 9\) for the food and \(\$ 1\) for the average drink. In addition to the labor costs, fixed costs for the restaurant include: -\(\$ 500\) per day for rent \& \$300 per day for other overhead costs The restaurant is open 350 days during a year and is full to the last seat even on weekends and holidays. There are about \(\$ 1,500,000\) of capital tied up in the restaurant, mainly consisting of furniture, decoration, and equipment. Note: All information is based on averages. In your analysis, do NOT consider any truncation effects that can arise in the last minutes of a day (i.e., ignore the fact that a table might be empty for 20 minutes at the end of the day because nobody is willing to sit down for that limited amount of time). Also ignore the inefficiency from mismatching between customer group size and available seats. a. How many guests will the restaurant serve each evening? Round your answer to the nearest whole number(3 points) b. What is the expected revenue per day?(1 point) c. What is the expected total costs per day?(3 points) d. What is the Return on Invested Capital for the owner of the restaurant (in \(\%)\)?3 points) e. Assume that you could improve the table cleaning process and reduce the cleaning time from 5 minutes to 3 minutes per table. What would be the new ROIC? Show the step-by-step work (3) points) f. For this question, ignore the changes described in e. What would be the new ROIC if overhead charges could be reduced by \(\$ 50\) per day?
Question 2 ( 1 5 points ) Basil and Veg is a

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