Chocolate Chip Cookies

The main goal of the Cookies unit was to solve the Unit Problem. The unit problem introduced us to the Woos, the owners of a cookie bakery. The Woos want to find the most profitable combination of plain and iced cookies to bake and sell in their store. We were given several constraints for this problem. According to the Woo’s recipes, a dozen normal cookies requires one pound of cookie dough, and a dozen iced cookies requires .7 pounds of cookie dough. The Woo family only has 110 pounds of cookie dough in stock, which will affect the number of cookies that can be made. The iced cookies also need icing, obviously. A dozen of iced cookies required .4 pounds of icing and the Woos only have 32 pounds of icing in stock.

In the case of more than 3 dozens of cookies we have to consider the fact that the mixing bowl can only hold for up to three dozens of cookies. Thus, we have 12+4*(2+1+2)+1=33 min of valuable time with costs of ((33/60)*L)/4=0,1375. So the maximum is reached when we produce up to 3 dozens, but we should give discounts on 3+ orders, too.

MMMMMMMM, Chocolate chip cookies. You know, the gooey chocolate chips in the sugary dough, yeah, those. You have come to know them well, or so you think. What’s the story behind the chocolate chip cookies that first appeared in 1930? Who made this delicious recipe that we all know and love? The answer behind it is a young woman who went by the name of Ruth Wakefield. How did Mrs. Wakefield make this recipe? Let’s start from the beginning.

We decided to decrease the price of mountain bike production from $134 per bike to $108. The difference of $26 for 11,000 units results in a saving of almost $300,000. In the meanwhile, we also decided to dump our finish goods inventory, incurring a loss of $175,000. We decided to increase our capacity from 20,000 to 27,500 and efficiency from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000. We want to avoid increasing capacity significantly in order to avoid low efficiency. At the same time we want to keep our wastage at a minimum. We reduced our retail margin for the bike and sports store to 20% while reducing the discount stores to 27%. These new retail margins

With the increasing trend in healthy diet preference, the underlying drivers of change of competition in premium chocolate industry at the strongest level are the buyers’ preferences for differentiated, refined products, instead of standardized ordinary products that are no longer demanded. In addition, baby boomers - generation with their disposable income are spending a lot on high quality premium chocolates.

A long-time friend insists that Natalie has to somehow include cookies in her business plan. After a series of brainstorming sessions, Natalie settles on the idea of operating a cookie-making school. She will start on a part-time basis and offer her services in

Cookie Shake is a partnership organization that includes five members. We provide cookies, milkshakes and cookie sandwiches. Every member had an important role in the project so no one could be left out in anything. The report will include the evaluation and the analysis of our project.

The name of the recipe I will be making is Mexican hot chocolate cookies. The reason I chose Mexican hot chocolate cookies is I find this cookie super unique in taste and texture compared to other cookies. It is fairly simple to make. I learned how to make these cookies with my mother. It was not for a special occasion, we just wanted to try a new recipe. Our family often packages the cookies, three per bag, to take to the military base and distribute to the security forces folks on duty. They really appreciate being thought of. They often tease my mother saying it has been too long since she brought them by. There are stories of people hiding them from their spouse or family members. The recipe originally appeared on Martha Stewart’s website. My mother made some changes to the recipe along the way.

Thus, cost per dozen of labor is decreasing. This can be applied to orders of more than two dozens as well. Hence, Kristen 's Cookie Company can give discounts to customers giving orders of more than one dozen because of the economies of scale as shown above.

The bottleneck operation would be the speed of operation, which is time you spend in preparing and baking. The speed with which you can produce cookies depends on the cycle time of baking. If we can rent another oven, it will increase our efficiency in order to make more cookies with lower cost. Because mixer can mix ingredients for up to three dozens cookies, each oven can hold a tray per time. This change would give us solution for production constraints. After increasing capacity of oven, it will make us start our new orders every 5 minutes and 7.5 dozens per hour. So we are willing to pay $200-$300 to rent an extra oven.

If the business sales less, it will make a loss, if it sells more, it will be a profit. The break-even point in volume is the point where the plant 's fixed expenses are covered. In the case that Maria considers Aunt Connie 's Cookie shop cannot sell that much, she may ensure viability of the plant by (1) trying to reduce the fixed costs (e.g. renegotiating rent, reducing telephone bills, insurance, etc.), (2) trying to reduce variable costs (e.g. purchasing at lower cost the ingredients used to make cookies), or (3) increasing the selling price of the cookies. Any of these strategies can reduce the break-even point in volume. In the worst of the scenarios, Maria should not buy the peanut butter cookie plant.

There are three main channels for Cookie Craze. The first channel is a direct-to-consumer channel that consists of an on-site store at our bakery. This channel is expected to drive a considerable amount of business, probably the majority of our sales initially. The other two channels, both coming under the umbrella of "wholesale", are through grocery outlets and restaurants/coffee shops. The grocery channel will primarily consist of individually packaged cookies, and gift boxes of cookies, that the stores will sell at mark-up to their customers. Restaurants and coffee shops will make the cookies available to their customers as a menu item.

Growth of French cookie market is driven by a rising interest in quality rather than increasing volume.

Chocolate, It’s been described as one of life’s “sinful little pleasures.” It 's been proven that there are foods that people are passionate about, a passion that’s more than just love for food. For the true chocoholics like myself, just thinking about chocolate can evoke a pleasurable response. But could something that tastes so delicious actually be good and healthy for you? Over the years we have all heard many negative claims about chocolate, especially if you eat a lot like I do. But in fact, giving into those chocolate cravings you get may be better for you than you thought. Besides tasting good, chocolate is very beneficial to your body.

When describing the cookie production process for Lew-mark baking, it is best described as using the batch processing system. The batch processing system can best be described as the execution of a series of programs ("jobs") on a computer without human interaction. “Batch Processing is used when a moderate