Aparticular restaurant experiences a decrease in business, and this leads to a budget deficit. to balance the budget, the management initially pares down the menu so that there is less spoilage. management then dismisses the busboys and buys an inferior quality of meat and fish. finally, management fires several waiters and waitresses and increases the workload of those who remain. these actions illustrate

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.

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