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You are going to prepare a three-course dinner for your gourmet dinner group for a party of eight. Prepare a Gantt chart, Critical path flow chart and a store development chart for dinner party. Using the following information.
Course | Item | Preparation Time: | Eating Time: |
Appetizer | Bacon-wrapped water chestnuts | Cook in oven 10 minutes | 10 minutes |
Soup | Onion Soup | Cook 30 mins on stove | 15 minutes |
Bread sticks | Warm 10 minutes in oven | ||
Entree | French Pot Roast | Cook 2 hours in oven | 40 minutes |
Mashed Potatoes | Cook Ready Mix 10 Mins | ||
Fresh Mixed Vegetables | Boil 20 Minutes | ||
Gravy | Cook juice from roast,10 mins on stove | ||
Dessert | Apple Pie | Cook 35 mins in oven | 15 minutes |
Ice Cream | Let stand 5 mins, then scoop |
Prepare a Gantt chart, Critical path flow chart and a store development chart for dinner party. Using the following information.
As per the given information, the interrelationship of various activities of cooking is not given. Therefore it is assumed that all the prepations of items may be started simultaneously but needs to be served in the order of their numbers.
First serve Appetizer followed by Soup and then Entree and lastly Dessert.
Minutes 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95
100 105 110 115 120 125 130 135 140 145 150 155 160 165 170
175
1. Appetizer Preparations Eating 15to20
2. Soup cooking preparation 30minutes Eating 30to45
3. Entree eating time 40minutes upto160
Roast Cooking time 2 hours in oven
Potatoes cooking time 10 minutes to be finished by 120 so latest
start may be at 110
Vegetables preparation time 20 minutes so latest start may be at
100 minutes
Gravy cooking time 10 minutes to be finished by 120 so latest start
may be at 110
4. Dessert eating time 15 min.
Apple Pie Preparation 35 minutes latest start to finish
125to160
Ice Cream Time required 5 minutes latest ready by 160
Minutes 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 100
105 110 115 120 125 130 135 140 145 150 155 160 165 170 175
The total time for preparation is 2 hours and critical activity is
3.Entree and total time for preparation and finish eating is 175
minutes.