Question

The restaurant at the Hotel Galaxy offers two choices for breakfast: an all-you-can-eat buffet and an a la carte option, where diners can order from the menu. The buffet option has a budgeted meal price of $44. The a la carte option has a budgeted average price of $33 for a meal. The restaurant manager expects that 40 percent of its diners will order the buffet option. The buffet option has a budgeted variable cost of $24 and the a la carte option averages $19 per meal in budgeted variable cost. The manager estimates that 2,600 people will order a meal in any month.

For July, the restaurant served a total of 2,400 meals, including 940 buffet options. Total revenues were $42,300 for buffet meals and $52,560 for the a la carte meals.

Required:

a. Compute the activity variance for the restaurant for July.

b. Compute the mix and quantity variances for July.

Answer 1