eBook Show Me How Calculator Direct Labor Variances for a Service Company Hit n- un Food Trucks, Inc. owns and operates food trucks (mobile kithens) throughout the west coast. The company's employees have varying wage les lepan o her wveriece and engs f fiy, Enplores work eight orursis a aied to atruck each day basedton lblor neo suport the datk menuw. ne od the tuies rien's MobieFista, eciion cisine. The trudk offers a single menu item that changes daily. On November 11, the truck prepared 200 of ts most popular item, the Irish Breakfast Enchilada. The following data are available for that day Quantity of direct labor used (3 employees, working 8 hour shifts) Actual rate for direct labor Standard direct labor per meal Standard rate for direct labor 24 hrs. $15.00 per hr 0.1 hr $15.50 per hr a. Determine the directlabor rate variance, direct labor time variance, and the total direct labor cost variance. Ent negative number using a minus sign and an unfavorable variance as a positive number Rate variance Time variance Total direct labor cost variance b. Discuss what might have caused these variances. a. The time taken to prepare the meals was much higher than the budgeted time. b. The number of meals that can be actually made by the staffis less than the number of meals that could be generated by the employees assigned. . The actual cost of the labor is hipher than the standard cost. Favorable v UnfavorableV Unfavorable V 12 X 50V sedbeck