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Application of queuing theory to a fast food outfit: a study of blue meadows restaurant

Independent Journal of Management & Production

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Title Application of queuing theory to a fast food outfit: a study of blue meadows restaurant
 
Creator Gumus, Seigha
Bubou, Gordon Monday
Oladeinde, Mobolaji Humphrey
 
Subject queuing theory; Poisson distribution; service rate; customer satisfaction; fast food outfit; Blue Meadows Restaurant
 
Description The study evaluated the queuing system in Blue Meadows restaurant with a view to determining its operating characteristics and to improve customers’ satisfaction during waiting time using the lens of queuing theory. Data was obtained from a fast food restaurant in the University of Benin. The data collected was tested to show if it follows a Poisson and exponential distribution of arrival and service rate using chi square goodness of fit. A 95% confidence interval level was used to show the range of customers that come into the system at an hour time frame and the range of customers served at an hour time frame. Using the M/M/s model, the arrival rate, service rate, utilization rate, waiting time in the queue and the probability of customers likely balking from the restaurant was derived. The arrival rate (λ) at Blue Meadows restaurant was about 40 customers per hour, while the service rate was about 22 customers per hour per server. The number of servers present in the system was two. The average number of customers in the system in an hour window was 40 customers with a utilization rate of 0.909. The paper concludes with a discussion on the benefits of performing queuing analysis to a restaurant.
 
Publisher Independent
 
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Date 2017-06-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
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Identifier http://www.ijmp.jor.br/index.php/ijmp/article/view/576
10.14807/ijmp.v8i2.576
 
Source Independent Journal of Management & Production; Vol 8, No 2 (2017): Independent Journal of Management & Production; 441-458
2236-269X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.ijmp.jor.br/index.php/ijmp/article/view/576/664
http://www.ijmp.jor.br/index.php/ijmp/article/view/576/683
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2017 Seigha Gumus, Gordon Monday Bubou
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