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Dan's Cornerspot, a popular university eatery in a competitive market, has seating and staff capacity to serve about 600 lunch customers every day. For the past two months, demand has fallen from its previous near-capacity level. Concerned about his declining profit, Dan decided to take a closer look at his costs. He concluded that food was the primary cost that varied with meals served; the remaining costs of $3,335 per day were fixed. With demand averaging 580 lunches per day for the past two months, Dan thought it was reasonable to divide the $3,335 fixed costs by the current average demand of 580 lunches to arrive at an estimate of $5.75 of support costs per meal served. Noting that his support costs per meal had now increased, he contemplated raising his meal prices. Requirements (a) What is likely to happen if Dan continues to recompute his costs using the same approach if demand decreases further? (b) Advise Dan on choosing a cost driver quantity for computing support costs per meal and explain why you advocate your choice of quantity. Requirement (a) What is likely to happen if Dan continues to recompute his costs using the same approach if demand decreases further? (Round to the nearest cent.) Dan's previous average fixed cost per meal when demand was 600 lunch customers per day was $. If demand decreases further and Dan continues to use the same method to determine his costs of serving a meal, the average fixed cost per meal will and Dan will