Joyce Bluhm is the owner of Best Burger in a small tourist town. There are three specialty burgers on Best Burgers menu (price per burger in brackets); the Best Bacon Burger ($8.75), the Best Double Cheese Burger ($8.00), and the Best Thick Beef Burger ($9.00). Joyce personally inspects each burger and ensures that they are served heaping with toppings to meet customer expectations for an experience they cannot find at other restaurants.

The Best Burger restaurant closes in the winter months when the number of tourists visiting town decreases significantly. Joyce would like to know the minimum number of burgers she needs to sell in order to break even. She intends to use this information to help her determine how long she should continue to operate the restaurant into the fall season. The common fixed costs shown below can be avoided if Joyce closes the restaurant; other fixed costs such as property taxes cannot be avoided and are therefore excluded from the analysis below. Below are the partial financial results of August, the most recent month of operations.

	Best Bacon Burger	Best Double Cheese Burger	Best Thick Beef Burger	Total
Sales	$6,300	$11,520	$19,440	$37,260
Variable expenses:
Bacon	684			684
Ground beef	1,440	2,880	9,720	14,040
Cheese		648		648
Buns	72	144	216	432
Other	252	504	756	1,512
Total variable cost	$2,448	$ 4,176	$10,692	$17,316
Contribution margin	$3,852	$ 7,344	$ 8,748	$19,944
Common fixed expenses				8,500
Operating income				$11,444

Required:

1. Calculate the contribution margin for each burger sold at the Best Burger restaurant.
2. Determine the break-even point in units (round to whole units) required for Joyce to cover all fixed costs, assuming the current sales mix and costs do not change. Prepare a break-even income statement.
3. Determine the break-even point in sales dollars.
4. The following are Best Burgers expected volume of burger sales: September, 3,500; October, 3,000; November, 750; December, 750. Assuming the same product mix and the same common fixed expenses as August, and that Joyce requires a profit of at least $5,000, when should Joyce close the restaurant for the season?