City Pizza is adding salads and pasta dishes their available menu items. They estimate that they will sell 1 order of pasta for every 12 pizzas and 2 salads for every pasta, resulting in a sales mix of 12:1:2. City Pizza has a total of $56, 700 in monthly fixed costs and provide the following data on selling price and variable cost per unit for the menu. The current operations have the capacity to produce 8000 units per month. Complete the tables below. Calculate the product breakeven units and dollars. Post a reply to this thread answering the following questions. If the store operates at 80% of capacity each month, what is the potential profit? Explain how they might alter their sales mix to reduce the break even number and increase the profits. Would you suggest an alteration to the sales mix, fixed costs or variable costs?

Factors

Pizza

Pasta

Salad

Selling price per unit

$25.33

$9.99

$5.50

Variable cost per unit

$10.97

$3.50

$2.97

Contribution margin per unit

Contribution margin ratio

45%

75%

63%

Sales Mix Ratio

Weighted Average Contribution Margin Per Product

WACM Dollars

WACM Break-Even

Product Break-Even Point Units

Product Break-Even Point Dollars

Factors

Pizza

Pasta

Salad

Sales Mix

Units Sold

Total Revenue

Total Variable Costs (VC)

Fixed Costs (FC)

Total Costs

Profit/Loss