Quality Meats provides standard cuts of beef, lamb, and pork to restaurant chains for use in preparing customer meals. The price and cost of the beef, lamb, and pork is the same for all customers, with an average gross profit of 15%. However, the sales manager has recently been complaining that a particular customer is too "picky" and would like to drop them as a customer. As the corporate controller, you have gathered the following information about this customer and the costs of performing certain activities. The cost of these activities would be avoided if they were dropped as a customer.

Based on this information, should Quality Meats drop this customer?

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Total sales Total cost of meat. Number of returns.. Number of visits Number of calls. Cost per return Cost per visit. Cost per call $100.000 $ 85.000 50 25 120 $100 $150 $30