The Golden Corral is a market style restaurant with six different food stations. Tom Davidson, the...

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The Golden Corral is a market style restaurant with six different food stations. Tom Davidson, the restaurants General Manager, has hired you to look at the current layout and find a better way to organize the food stations to make it flow better. To help you out, he has provided you with the layout of the current system and data regarding the travel frequency between stations. Current layout of food stations Chicken (C) Shellfish (S) Travel frequency between stations. F . C B P S D 20 0 50 20 0 F 80 8888 90 80 30 90 с Fish (F) Pork (P) 0 40 0 10 80 B 10 1. a. What is the 'load x distance of the current layout? 2. Provide an improved layout and calculate its revised 'load x distance 70 0 20 0 P The distance between each station can be calculated using each of the following distance weights: Adjacent or diagonal rooms = 0 distance (example: C to S, C to P, C to F, etc.) • 2 rooms apart = 2 distance units (example: C to D, C to B, S to B, S to D) Beef (B) Desert (D) 90 8888 20 20 20 80 S 0 70 70 20 D The Golden Corral is a market style restaurant with six different food stations. Tom Davidson, the restaurants General Manager, has hired you to look at the current layout and find a better way to organize the food stations to make it flow better. To help you out, he has provided you with the layout of the current system and data regarding the travel frequency between stations. Current layout of food stations Chicken (C) Shellfish (S) Travel frequency between stations. F . C B P S D 20 0 50 20 0 F 80 8888 90 80 30 90 с Fish (F) Pork (P) 0 40 0 10 80 B 10 1. a. What is the 'load x distance of the current layout? 2. Provide an improved layout and calculate its revised 'load x distance 70 0 20 0 P The distance between each station can be calculated using each of the following distance weights: Adjacent or diagonal rooms = 0 distance (example: C to S, C to P, C to F, etc.) • 2 rooms apart = 2 distance units (example: C to D, C to B, S to B, S to D) Beef (B) Desert (D) 90 8888 20 20 20 80 S 0 70 70 20 D