PART C 

(a) Restaurant patronage is often measured by what is termed “turns” per table (successive seatings per day) and by “covers” (seated dining per night). Sheet 4 of the Serving Time Project file gives the patronage for Gourmet Delight for successive days in August. The patronage recorded refers to all paying customers over the entire trading day. Write a brief report of the pattern of patronage. Provide explanation for the pattern observed. Obtain a simple exponentially smoothed series of the data. (You need to plot both series – original series and the smoothed series. 
(b) Gourmet Delight’s quarterly takings for the past few years are given in Sheet 5 of the Serving Time Project file. Using trend analysis, obtain a forecast for the four quarters of 2018. Write a brief report of your findings. In your report, you need to explain how you have used trend analysis to obtain the forecasts.