We must reduce overhead here at the cafe. Instead of opening at 6 a.m. weekdays, we will now open at 8 a.m. On weekends, we will only open from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. The decrease in hours of operations will help save money because we wont be paying for utility bills, employee wages, or other operating costs during the hours we are closed. This is the best strategy for us to save money and remain in business
In this memorandum, the owner suggests that the best way to stay in business, is to reduce overhead expenses by decreasing operational hours of the coffee shop. However, the owner fails to regard other factors that could reduce costs or strategies that could sustain the business.
In order to ensure that opening late in the morning will be a good solution to maximize the business, the owner will need to monitor foot fall and traffic at the Café for a few weeks. If 6 am to 10am is rush hour, during weekdays, as everyone likes to grab coffee before work, opening at 8am will prove counter productive. The owner could analyze during what time period, during weekdays, are the most and least number of bills being generated. Opening at 8am might reduce the operational costs for those two hours but they might lose more business than that, if it proves to be the busiest period of the day. Similarly, if during evening, say after 6pm, they experience least traffic, they can close early and save more on utilities, as more electricity is required after dark. Similarly, traffic needs to be monitored during the weekends. Since the coffee shop is located in downtown, owner will need to analyze if they are getting more families during weekends. Reducing hours, once again, can be counter productive if weekends are high-grossing days.
While it is mentioned that saving on “utilities, employee wages and other operating costs” will positively impact the business, there is no direct method suggested to save on these. Instead of indirectly reducing these costs by abridging operational hours, owner could look at other data like most spending department. Analyzing factors like number of employees required or unnecessary usage of electricity like when not in use or hardly used equipment, can majorly affect utility bills. They also fail to mention costs of procuring ingredients and other materials and evaluate alternatives for the same.
The owner suggests only reduction in overhead costs as a way to stay in business. There is no discussion to improve the sales, rather. Adopting marketing strategies, improving ambience, customer experience, product quality, etc. can be a few factors that could be examined and analyzed.
The memorandum is quite ambiguous as it fails to discuss the issue profoundly. No statistics are mentioned to make an informed decision. The author seems to be focused unilaterally on operational hours. Observing other factors to reduce overhead costs or to rather increase sales, using various strategies, might be a more broadened approach to the problem.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 422 350
No. of Characters: 2111 1500
No. of Different Words: 213 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.532 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.002 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.591 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 150 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 120 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 87 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 49 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.095 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.64 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.476 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.287 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.506 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.047 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 661, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[3]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'experience the least'.
Suggestion: experience the least
... if during evening, say after 6pm, they experience least traffic, they can close early and save ...
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Line 5, column 165, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'suggested saving'.
Suggestion: suggested saving
...the business, there is no direct method suggested to save on these. Instead of indirectly reducin...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, similarly, so, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2193.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 422.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19668246445 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53239876712 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75499896855 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 204.123752495 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.528436018957 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 695.7 705.55239521 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.1562075042 57.8364921388 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.6818181818 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1818181818 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.27272727273 5.70786347227 40% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.204723868545 0.218282227539 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0572314903182 0.0743258471296 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0593167394534 0.0701772020484 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0945052294285 0.128457276422 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0630178741698 0.0628817314937 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 98.500998004 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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