Donna Is Going to Open Her Own Restaurant

question 194

Essay

Donna is going to open her own restaurant. She is concerned not only about her own organization, but also about what her competitors are doing. Explain why a SWOT analysis will be helpful to her.

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Definitions:

Rent Payment

Monetary compensation paid by a lessee to a lessor for the use of a particular property, piece of equipment, or facility.

Land Supplied

Land supplied indicates the quantity of land offered for use or development, affected by factors like pricing, zoning regulations, and market demand.

Rationing Function

The ability of market prices to allocate scarce resources efficiently among competing uses.

Incentive Function

The inducement that an increase in the price of a commodity gives to sellers to make more of it available (and conversely for a decrease in price), and the inducement that an increase in price offers to buyers to purchase smaller quantities (and conversely for a decrease in price).