Attached are partially correct. Please verify for me. Maria Chavez owns a catering company that serves food and beverages at parties and business functions. Chavez?s business is seasonal, with a heavy schedule during the summer months and holidays and a lighter schedule at other times. | One of the major events Chavez?s customers request is a cocktail party. She offers a standard cocktail party and has estimated the cost per guest as follows: |
| | | Food and beverages | $ | 17.00 | Labor (0.5 hour @ $9.80/hr.) | | 4.90 | Overhead (0.5 hour @ $18.70/hr.) | | 9.35 | | | | Total cost per guest | $ | 31.25 | | | | |
The standard cocktail party lasts three hours and Chavez hires one worker for every six guests, so that works out to one-half hour of labor per guest. These workers are hired only as needed and are paid only for the hours they actually work. | When bidding on cocktail parties, Chavez adds a 11% markup to yield a price of about $38 per guest. She is confident about her estimates of the costs of food and beverages and labor but is not as comfortable with the estimate of overhead cost. The $18.70 overhead cost per labor-hour was determined by dividing total overhead expenses for the last 12 months by total labor-hours for the same period. Monthly data concerning overhead costs and laborhours follow: |
Month | Labor Hours | Overhead Expenses | January | 2,800 | $ | 48,000 | February | 2,700 | | 52,000 | March | 2,900 | | 53,000 | April | 4,100 | | 57,000 | May | 4,400 | | 60,000 | June | 5,400 | | 64,000 | July | 6,400 | | 67,000 | August | 7,400 | | 70,000 | September | 6,900 | | 68,000 | October | 4,400 | | 61,000 | November | 4,000 | | 57,000 | December | 6,400 | | 65,000 | | | | | Total | 57,800 | $ | 722,000 | | | | | | |