Carla, a Budding Restaurateur, Meets a Veteran Chef and Restaurateur

question 22

Multiple Choice

Carla, a budding restaurateur, meets a veteran chef and restaurateur, Giovanni. Carla wishes to analyze the purchasing pattern of her customer base. Which of the following is most likely to be a piece of sound advice that Giovanni would offer to Carla?

• A)Carla should use her restaurant's distributed systems to know more about her customers' purchasing patterns.
• B)Carla should avoid using the restaurant's integrated system to analyze her customers' purchasing patterns.
• C)Carla should support strategic and less structured managerial decisions to ensure that standardization occurs.
• D)Carla should support less specific and fluid managerial decisions to ensure that standardization occurs.

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