McBurger

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A large fast food chain has hired us to improve the company’s profitability by cutting costs. Before engaging in the initial brainstorming session about your client’s options with your team, you first want to collect your thoughts.

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What are the real savings?

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Hi, you are right. In fact, in the breakeven calculation, it considers the correct saving. The error is even in the timing of releasing the data about cost of new napkin: it reveals it costs 1cent only after have found ... (read entire answer)
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Break even calculation

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Hello, Your formula is the right one to calculate the "break even volume", the volume that would cover your fixed costs. Anyway the break even calculation is a broader concept and you can think of it as of the minimu ... (read entire answer)
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