PIZZA TASK LIST

1. Select a district. Complete Calculation #1. The sales probability indicates the number of pizzas per day that are purchased in that district.

2. Select a shop and find your monthly rent. Complete Calculation #2.

3. Select a pizza type and find your monthly earnings. For this project, a month will be 28 days long. Complete Calculation #3.

4. Select a truck type. Calculate the number of trucks needed per day. Your shop is open for 12 hours (12:00 PM to 12:00 AM). Complete Calculation #4.

5. Calculate the total truck rental cost for the month. Complete Calculation #5.

6. Find the average delivery distance for one pizza. Complete Calculation #6.

7. Find the mileage cost for delivery. Complete Calculation #7.

8. Calculate the sales tax for the month. Complete Calculation #8.

9. Make out a work schedule for the first week. I'll assume the schedule will be the same for one month. Remember all the conditions of employment.

10. Complete Financial Statement # 1.

11. Complete Financial Statement # 2.

12. Use paper or cardboard to make a full-sized model of the pizza you chose to sell. Be creative and use color. The diameter of your model must be accurate to within 1/2".

13. Use graph paper and graph the productivity equations (these should be linear) for you and your employees on one set of Cartesian coordinates. Be sure to label the lines and the axes. Title your graph. Write a statement about the relationship between the slope of the lines and how productive the employees are.

14. You have consulted an advertising agency to help maximize your profits. They have provided you with a quadratic equation y = -.000032x² + .16x + 0 where y is equal to the number of pizzas sold, and x is equal to the advertising dollars spent. Graph the quadratic on graph paper using any means you wish. Identify the intercepts and the vertex and explain what they mean relative to the problem. How much should you spend? Is this a good investment? Justify your answer.

15. Type (font 12 point, Geneva or Ariel) a brief letter (business format) to Mr. Krativ highlighting the brilliance of your decisions. Also make a statement about what you learned from working on this business proposal. Mr. Krativ will use your report to convince the loan committee to give you the 100 grand.

16. Make a title page for your proposal complete with a name for your company and a logo. Be sure to include your name and/or the name of your partner(s). Put your work in order as outlined on the grading rubric. Bind your proposal (not the cardboard pizza) and submit it by the beginning of your class period on May 19th. If you or your family will be out of town, then please turn your work in early. If you are ill on the 19th, then a family member must deliver your work to school.

Late work will result in a loss of 20% of the project grade!!

Happy Earnings!