Kowabunga was a US based beach clothing and gear company. The owner of the company wanted to expand into markets in Mexico, Australia and Fiji. The company compared the emerging markets to see which had the highest growth rates. Which external business environment did the company evaluate for its expansion?

1. what are the unique operational challenges to delivering fresh meals? 2. why is speed of delivery so important for delivered meals? what variety of options contribute to this performance metric? 3. how could operations management concepts be utilized to improve the performance of freshly? 4. what are your typical product delivery times? what would be required to speed these up? 5. what are your delivery batch quantities? how could you reduce batch size and reduce delivery cost simultaneously using operations management concepts?