Special Order

Natures Garden, a new restaurant situated on a busy highway in Pomona, California, specializes in a chefs salad selling for $7. Daily fixed cost are $1,200 and variable costs are $4 per meal. With a capacity of 800 meals per day, the restaurant serves an average of 750 meals each day.

Required

Determine the current average cost per meal

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 total of $150. The owner refuses, saying he would lose $.60 per meal if he accepted this offer. How do you think the owner arrived at the $.60 figure? Comment on the owners reasoning.

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 businessmans employees one meal each day at a special price of $4.50 per meal. Should the restaurant owner accept this offer? Why or why not?