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This Report Studied Current State Of Bibi Lounge And Coffee

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This report studied current state of BiBi Lounge and Coffee shop located at 10067 Yonge st. Richmond Hill. The team aims to improve customer service time(customer service rate), reduce waiting time and as a result improve efficiency and customer satisfaction. The current system has 14.237 minutes per customer service time, average inter arrival rate is 9 tables per hour. The solutions recommended are: 1.eliminate the assumption that if there are people sitting on a table,the table is considered occupied 2: adding two servers. These two proposals are compared by calculating traffic intensity, average customer waiting time, average time customers spends in the system, average number of customers in system, average number of customers waiting …show more content…

Moreover, due to this drawback the service time for the upstairs area increases, which causes a longer waiting time for customers in the system. Another detail to note is the placement of the food and beverages served to the customers, as all equipment is on the ground floor of the restaurant, the time to bring the food or beverage to the second floor will add another constraint that lengthens the service time. BB coffee shop as an establishment has a main goal to serve as many customers as possible in order to increase their revenue, and so when the service time is extended then there could be a loss of customers, which could result in a loss in profits. Additionally, when a customer waits in line, it also affects the coffee shop as there is a delay cost for every customer who waits in a line, thus the longer a customer is waiting in line the more cost will increase. During peak hours, it is especially important to keep the service rate at a minimum, in order to optimize revenue, quality of service, and customer satisfaction. Furthermore, considering all the factors stated above, BB coffee shop would need to find a solution in order to improve the processes in their system. The team gathered arrival and service times from BB coffee shop to get a more accurate set of data within peak

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