E16-20. Special Order (L01, 2, 3) Nature's Garden, a new restaurant situated on a busy highway in Pomona, California, specializes in a chef's salad selling for $9. Daily fixed costs are $1,200, and variable costs are $5 per meal. With a capacity of 800 meals per day, the restaurant serves an average of 750 meals each day. Required a. Determine the current average cost per meal. Relevant Costs and Benefits for Decision Making b. A busload of 30 Girl Scouts stops on its way home from the San Bernardino National Forest. The leader offers to bring them in if the scouts can all be served a meal for a total of $180. The owner refuses, saying he would lose $0.60 per meal if he accepted this offer. How do you think the owner arrived at the $0.60 figure? Comment on the owner's reasoning. c. A local businessman on a break overhears the conversation with the leader and offers the owner a one-year contract to feed 300 of the businessman's employees one meal each day at a special price of $5.50 per meal. Should the restaurant owner accept this offer? Why or why not