Payment is done by the customer for the meal by cash or card.
The order is fed into the backlog or the display screen.
This is then viewed by the staff in the kitchen.
The orders are processed based on the priority given to it. EX: The order displayed first on the screen will be worked on.
The staff in the kitchen work on the order.
The patties that are stored in the hot boxes are used for preparing burger.
Other toppings and sauces are then added to the burger.
French fries is taken from its respective station and is placed on the serving tray along with the burger.
The meal is then served to the customer.
Finally the manager will check for the remaining stock for next day of work.
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The JIT is a practice introduced by the Japanese to reduce inventory to zero or closer to zero.
The benefits of using the JIT is that it improves quality of the product, the time taken to produce the product.
McDonald’s started realizing the need to use JIT technology after experiencing the effect of not using JIT.
They start to prepare the food only after the order has been made.
As we know use of JIT reduces the time taken to produce the finished product, after using JIT it took McDonald’s to prepare a burger in less than 1 and half minutes.
This increases the productivity and popularity of the restaurant among people.
The practice of McDonald’s is that to pre cook the patties which are difficult to cook in a short time and store it in a hot book.
A patty is stored in the hot box for no more than 20 minutes.
It is very much easier to prepare patties after it is discarded after the installation of JIT.
For the installation of JIT in their kitchen, they were using push system.
A batch of sandwiches are prepared in advance and stored.
After 20 minutes it is discarded.
Customer satisfaction level was very low.
Throughput was low, while work in process was