Saturday, March 19, 2011

Throughput

The term"THROUGHPUT",quoted by Alfred D,Chandler in the book,Fast Food Nation,was adopted by the America manufacturers in the twentieth century."THROUGHPUT"was the most important aspect of mass production system.This idea also became important  for the fast food industry as well, because with the system" THROUGHPUT"which means making increase profit in their sale of product .The fast food coporation need to cut their labor force to maximize their profit margin ,the need for already made frozen burger may save them time and money.Insteat of hiring cateria to make a dough and bake a bun from the scratch.The time and cost involve for a cateria to bake ten dough ,could purchase about fifty frozen already made buns.This way the frozen buns will serve more people ,save time,less labor cost and more profit for the fast food coporation.