Rock View Restaurant is a new fast food restaurant chain. The Operations Manager has divided its normal drive-through service process into the following tasks: Tasks                                    Description           Task           Time (In Seconds) Predecessors A                                         Take order                25            None B                                  Receive payment            20              A C                                     Gather drinks               35              A D                                     Gather food                  32              A E                                 Put food etc. in bag           25            C,D F                                  Give food to customer     10             B,E Currently, Rock View Restaurant has a single window with one person who takes the order, gather the food, collects the money and gives the food to the customer. This takes an average of 147 seconds per customer so only 25.5 cars can be served. Rock View Restaurant wants to increase its drive-through capacity to 60 cars per hour by forming a multi-window line. i.Using the LOT heuristic, assign the tasks to the windows to produce the desired service rate making sure that the precedence relationship is maintained. ii.  Calculate the efficiency of the newly design process

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Rock View Restaurant is a new fast food restaurant chain. The Operations Manager has divided
its normal drive-through service process into the following tasks:
Tasks                                    Description           Task           Time
(In
Seconds)
Predecessors
A                                         Take order                25            None
B                                  Receive payment            20              A
C                                     Gather drinks               35              A
D                                     Gather food                  32              A
E                                 Put food etc. in bag           25            C,D
F                                  Give food to customer     10             B,E


Currently, Rock View Restaurant has a single window with one person who takes the order, gather the food, collects the money and gives the food to the customer. This takes an average of 147 seconds per customer so only 25.5 cars can be served. Rock View Restaurant wants to increase its drive-through capacity to 60 cars per hour by forming a multi-window line.

i.Using the LOT heuristic, assign the tasks to the windows to produce the desired service rate making sure that the precedence relationship is maintained.

ii.  Calculate the efficiency of the newly design process. 

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