Reference no: EM13904428
The general store at state University is an auxiliary bookstore located near the dormitories that sells academic supplies, toiletries, sweatshirts and t shirts, magazines, packaged food items, and canned soft drinks and fruit drinks. the manager if the store has noticed that several pizza delivery services near campus make frequent deliveries. the Manger is therefore considering selling pizza in the store. she could buy pre-made frozen pizzas and heat them in an oven. the cost if the oven and the freezer would be $27000. the frozen pizzas cost $3.75 each to buy from a distributor and to prepare (including labor and a box). to be competitive with the local delivery services, the manager believes she should sell the pizzas for $8.95 a piece. the manager needs to write up a proposal for the university's director of auxiliary services.
a) determine how many pizzas would have to be sold to break even
b) if the general store sells 20 pizzas per day, how many days would it take to break even?
c) the manager of the store anticipates that once the local pizza delivery services start losing business, they will react by cuttibgbprices. if after a month (30 days) the manager has to lower the price of pizza to $7.95 to keep demand at 20 per day, as she expects, what will the new breakeven point be, and how long will it take the store to break even?
(Answers in spreadsheet if needed)...QM
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