Answer the following questions: Each question 2 marks 3 1. One person wants to start a business with capital of 3500(OMR). Which type of business he can start what will be his liability for debts. LA 2. Mr. X, Mr.Y and Mr.Z, want to form a business with equal share in capital, wherein Mr.Y and Z want to have limited liability. Discuss which type of business they can form, explain about the rights and liabilities of each partner in it. 3. 50 Omanis want to form a company with a minimum total capital of 20000 (OMR), wherein all want to have limited liability. Which type of company they can form, explain?ingredients of flour, water, yeast, and flavorings are combined in 1. blueyyer's mamtamis relauvery mue inventory at einer Is a special mixing machine. After the dough has been thoroughly plants or its retail stores. List the benefits and risks of this mixed, it is transferred to another machine that shapes the dough policy. into individual bagels. Once the bagels have been formed, they 2. Quality is very important to Bruegger's. are loaded onto refrigerated trucks for shipping to individual a. What features of bagels do customers look at to judge their stores. When the bagels reach a store, they are unloaded from the quality? trucks and temporarily stored while they rise. The final two steps b. At what points in the production process do workers check of processing involve boiling the bagels in a kettle of water and bagel quality? malt for one minute, and then baking the bagels in an oven for c. List the steps in the production process, beginning with approximately 15 minutes. purchasing ingredients, and ending with the sale, and state The process is depicted in the figure. how quality can be positively affected at each step. Quality is an important feature of a successful business. Custom- 3. Which inventory models could be used for ordering the ingre- ers judge the quality of bagels by their appearance (size, shape, and dients for bagels? Which model do you think would be most shine), taste, and consistency. Customers are also sensitive to the appropriate for deciding how many bagels to make in a given service they receive when they make their purchases. Bruegger's batch? devotes careful attention to quality at every stage of operation, from 4. Bruegger's has bagel-making machines at its plants. Another choosing suppliers of ingredients, careful monitoring of ingredients, possibility would be to have a bagel-making machine at each and keeping equipment in good operating condition to monitoring store. What advantages does each alternative have? Mixer Trays of bagels BAGELS Shaper 888 888 Kettle Oven Processing plant A retail storeOPERATIONS TOUR BRUEGGER'S BAGEL BAKERY Bruegger's Bagel Bakery makes and sells a variety of bagels, output at each step in the process. At the stores, employees are including plain, onion, poppyseed, and cinnamon raisin, as well as instructed to watch for deformed bagels and to remove them when assorted flavors of cream cheese. Bagels are the major source of they find them. (Deformed bagels are returned to a processing plant revenue for the company. where they are sliced into bagel chips, packaged, and then taken The bagel business is a $3 billion industry. Bagels are very back to the stores for sale, thereby reducing the scrap rate.) Employ- popular with consumers. Not only are they relatively low in fat, ees who work in the stores are carefully chosen and then trained they are filling, and they taste good! Investors like the bagel so that they are competent to operate the necessary equipment in industry because it can be highly profitable: it only costs about the stores and to provide the desired level of service to customers. $.10 to make a bagel, and they can be sold for $.50 each or more. The company operates with minimal inventories of raw materi- Although some bagel companies have done poorly in recent years, als and inventories of partially completed bagels at the plant and due mainly to poor management, Bruegger's business is booming; very little inventory of bagels at the stores. One reason for this it is number one nationally, with over 450 shops that sell bagels, is to maintain a high degree of freshness in the final product by coffee, and bagel sandwiches for takeout or onpremise consump- continually supplying fresh product to the stores. A second rea- tion. Many stores in the Bruegger's chain generate an average of son is to keep costs down; minimal inventories mean less space is $800,000 in sales annually. needed for storage. Production of bagels is done in batches, according to flavor, with each flavor being produced on a daily basis. Production of Questions bagels at Bruegger's begins at a processing plant, where the basic ingredients of flour, water, yeast, and flavorings are combined in 1. Bruegger's maintains relatively little inventory at either its a special mixing machine. After the dough has been thoroughly plants or its retail stores. List the benefits and risks of this mixed, it is transferred to another machine that shapes the dough policy. into individual bagels. Once the bagels have been formed, they 2. Quality is very important to Bruegger's. are loaded onto refrigerated trucks for shipping to individual a. What features of bagels do customers look at to judge their stores. When the bagels reach a store, they are unloaded from the quality