The Lunch Counter at a Small Restaurant Has Difficulty Handling

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Essay

The lunch counter at a small restaurant has difficulty handling the lunch business.Currently,there is only one cashier in a single-channel,single-phase system.The restaurant has collected information on the interarrival time,and service time distributions from past lunch hours.They are represented in the tables below.Use the following two-digit random numbers given below to simulate 10 customers through the checkout system.What is the average time in line,and average time in system? (Set first arrival time to the interarrival time generated by first random number.
Random numbers for interarrival times: 32,73,41,38,73,01,09,64,34,44
Random numbers of service times: 84,55,25,71,34,57,50,44,95,64

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Definitions:

Overhead Cost

Expenses related to the operation of a business that are not directly tied to a specific product or service, such as rent, utilities, and administrative salaries.

Activity Cost Pool

A grouping of all the costs related to a particular business activity, facilitating more accurate allocation of overhead costs to products or services.

Machining

The process of removing material from a workpiece to shape or finish it using machine tools, typically in a manufacturing or engineering setting.

Unit-level Activity

Pertains to the activities or actions that vary directly with the number of units produced or services delivered.