Has sales of $601,000, costs of $257,000, depreciation expense of $63,000, interest expense of $30,000, and a tax rate of 35 percent. the firm paid out $44,000 in cash dividends and has 56,000 shares of common stock outstanding.

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?