ASSIGNMENT FRONT SHEET
Course Title: M921- Managing Service Operations in the Evolving Business Environment
Faculty: A. Gervaix
Student Class: MBA - group B
Assessment Title: Benihana Simulation Analysis
Due Date: September 21, 2012 Due Time: Midnight Word Count:
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Signed Chao Huang
Student number GIHE 304126 Name Chao Huang
Benihana Simulation Analysis
Chao HUANG
Group B
Master of Business Administration 2012/2013
Managing Service Operations in the Evolving Business Environment
M921
Mr. Alain Gervaix
Glion Institute of Higher Education
September 20, 2012
Introduction Benihana simulation is a system that helps students to come up with a reasonable strategy to optimize the decisions. This simulation system provides students a chance to be pretended as the operator of the restaurant and make several crucial decisions on many large aspects. It also motivates you to think about the size and capacity of the bar and dining tables, whether you will use batching for customers, how quickly you would like to treat your customers , how much money you would like to spend on advertising budget and how to spend that money. There are 5 individual challenges for this simulation; each challenge has some options that can be adjusted. This simulation was a great way to help students to
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