Ari's Falafel Stand offers two different types of falafel dishes: a regular falafel on pita with chick- pea patties and tahini sauce or a falafel platter that has all of the ingredients of a regular falafel along with hummus and a salad of diced tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, and green peppers tossed with lemon juice and olive oil. The regular falafel is wrapped in foil, and the falafel platter comes on a plate with triangles of pita bread. Each goes through an assembly line-like process. The process flow for both types of dishes is shown in the following chart. Both regular falafels and falafel platters go through steps Al and A2. The regular falafel then goes through steps A3 and A4, and the falafel platter goes through steps A5, A6, and A7. Both dishes finish at the cashier (step A8). The number in parentheses indicates how long that step usually takes in seconds. a. Which step is the bottleneck for the preparation of a regular falafel? Which step is the bottleneck for the falafel platter? b. What is the capacity-measured as customers served per hour of Ari's Falafel Stand to serve regular falafels and the falafel platters to customers? Assume that no cus- tomers are waiting at steps A1, A2, and A8. C. If 75 percent of the customers order regular falafels and 25 percent order a falafel plat- ter, what is the average capacity of the falafel stand in customers served per hour? d. Where would you expect the preparation of regular falafels to experience a delay, assuming that new customers are always entering the shop and that none of them wants a falafel platter? Where would you expect the preparation of a falafel platter to experience a delay, again assuming that new customers are always entering the shop and that none of them want a regular falafel? Ari's Falafel Stand offers two different types of falafel dishes: a regular falafel on pita with chick- pea patties and tahini sauce or a falafel platter that has all of the ingredients of a regular falafel along with hummus and a salad of diced tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, and green peppers tossed with lemon juice and olive oil. The regular falafel is wrapped in foil, and the falafel platter comes on a plate with triangles of pita bread. Each goes through an assembly line-like process. The process flow for both types of dishes is shown in the following chart. Both regular falafels and falafel platters go through steps Al and A2. The regular falafel then goes through steps A3 and A4, and the falafel platter goes through steps A5, A6, and A7. Both dishes finish at the cashier (step A8). The number in parentheses indicates how long that step usually takes in seconds. a. Which step is the bottleneck for the preparation of a regular falafel? Which step is the bottleneck for the falafel platter? b. What is the capacity-measured as customers served per hour of Ari's Falafel Stand to serve regular falafels and the falafel platters to customers? Assume that no cus- tomers are waiting at steps A1, A2, and A8. C. If 75 percent of the customers order regular falafels and 25 percent order a falafel plat- ter, what is the average capacity of the falafel stand in customers served per hour? d. Where would you expect the preparation of regular falafels to experience a delay, assuming that new customers are always entering the shop and that none of them wants a falafel platter? Where would you expect the preparation of a falafel platter to experience a delay, again assuming that new customers are always entering the shop and that none of them want a regular falafel
