Cafeteria
Project:
Finding Patterns of Food Preferences
A Cooperative Project in Statistics and
Culinary Arts
The
Problem:
The manager of the school cafeteria has come to you and your team for
help. The manager needs better information to use in making decisions
about what food, and how much of each food, to prepare. This project
involves designing and implementing a data collection system that will
help culinary arts personnel make reliable decisions about menu
planning.
Time
line:
• Day 1: Discussion of the
problem and decision making process
Success
Menu Planning:
Successful menu planning requires, among other things, reliable
information about student preferences for the various food items.
Experience in the Davea cafeteria has shown that food preferences vary
by:
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• School
(e.g. Pizza puffs are more popular at some schools than others)
• Day of the
week
(e.g. Some days are slow days for some items...maybe because the same
items are offered at the students' own schools on a prior day ?)
• Other
factors?? (e.g., gender? grade in school ? )
