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Order Times of Burger King and McDonald’s

Initially as we began this project, we decided that we wanted to do an experiment that could be of use to people with their everyday lives. Our first idea was to see the effect that chewing gum has on stress levels of people. We began to set up this experiment, but as we got further and further into the process we realized that it would be difficult to consistently get accurate stress levels. So, we chose to drop that idea and find the difference in order times at McDonalds and Burger King fast food restaurants and their drive through and walk in differences as well. The purpose of this experiment is to see which fast food restaurant is fastest. We choose to do this test by going to different Burger King and McDonalds locations and timing customer’s order times.

The populations we will be studying is the customers at Burger King and McDonalds fast food restaurants. We sampled two Burger Kings and two McDonalds restaurants with similar locations. The locations of the Burger Kings we sampled were 7800 Peach Street and 2872 West 26th Street. The locations of the McDonalds restaurants we sampled were 7200 Peach Street and 2643 West 26th Street.

The intent of this experiment is to see which fast food restaurant serves their customers the fastest, and where the customers came through the restaurant, the drive through or walking in. The time was started once the customer finished placing their order and the time was stopped once they received their food. Our study is a two sample T-test. The reason it falls into this category is due to the fact that we are comparing means. In order to create randomization between order sizes we had to obtain a very large sample size to help minimize the effect of this lurking variable. The size of the orders could be a critical issue; however, with a large number of samples this should be fairly random. Time of day and day of the week could be a lurking variable,...