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Question-2 Rock Candy, a purveyor of exceptionally fine candies has just hired you as Director of Operations. Rock Candy needs to design a good layout for a kitchen for its recipe making and testing department. The strategy is to provide the best kitchen layout possible so that food scientists can devote their time and energy to product improvement, not wasted effort in the kitchen. You have been asked to evaluate several possible layouts and to prepare a recommendation for your boss, Sheena Drew, so that she can proceed to place the contract for building the kitchens. The first data you collect is on the traffic between the different work centers that make up the kitchen. This data is shown in sheet Trips in the file Project 4 Data.xls.. a. Based on the above table which pairs of work-centers do you think should be close to each other? Name the top 4 pairs. After a week of observation of their existing kitchen operations you and your team have come up with the following five alternative layouts: Kitehen toyout 02 Kitehen layout o1 Wasing distance in leet Walking distance in leet Kitchen layout 63 Walking distance in foot b. Evaluate each layout on the basis of the total walking done in terms of trip-feet. c. Create a table showing the trip-feet for the five layouts d. Which layout should you recommend