Numerous parties of size 5 go to the Green Iguana at random times. The Green Iguana employs 5 waiters. A waiter takes 10 seconds to get from the kitchen to the table (or vice versa), and takes 30 seconds to manually take each person's order at the table. A waiter always starts in the kitchen, goes out to a table, takes the order for the batch (whatever the batch size), and then delivers the order for only that batch back to kitchen. In which case will the "respone time" (defined below) be faster - for batch sizes of 5 where there is only one waiter per table who takes the order of all 5 people before going back to the kitchen, or for batch sizes of 1 where 5 waiters go to each table and each waiter takes the order of only 1 person and then delivers that order to the kitchen (and then the 5 waiters go take orders at the next table in similar fashion)? In this question, we'll use "response time" to mean the time between when a table starts being served until its been completely served (that is, the between when any waiter starts working on any order from a table and the time when any waiter finishes working on the very last order from that same table). O Throughput time will be the same regardless of batch size Batch size of 1 Batch size of 5 O Impossible to tell.