Food for Thought

As a chef, you are in the process of evaluate your kitchen operation management. The process required you to arrange a classic dinner party.

This is your menu:

Onion soup with French bread with cheese

Roast chicken with boiled mixed vegetables

Pie with hot chocolate sauce

All the required ingredients would be available before you would start cooking. To increase to chances to get the job, you arranged to borrow a sea view apartment from a far relative of you to hold the dinner party. Guests will attend an event after the dinner and the traveling time to the event location required 30 minutes (you will join them).

The following are your best estimates of the times needed to complete the various activities associated with the dinner:

Cooking the onion soup 30 minutes

Warming the bread in the oven 10 minutes

Roasting the chicken in the oven 45 minutes

Boiling the vegetables 25 minutes

Warming the pie in the oven 15 minutes

Cooking the chocolate sauce 40 minutes

Serving and eating the soup 20 minutes

Serving and eating the chicken 25 minutes

Serving and eating the apple pie 15 minutes

You are planning to serve Green Tea - Moroccan style. You need 35 minutes to prepare the tea. You intend to serve the tea with the chicken.

Incidentally, you have only one pot to use for boiling the soup, the mixed vegetables, and the chocolate sauce. Also, your oven can hold only one item at a time.

1. Create project charter.

2. Construct the WBS for the dinner?

3. How quickly can you cook, serve, and consume the meal?

4. What time you should start cooking if the event will start at 9:30 pm?