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Optimal table-mix and acceptance–rejection problems in restaurants

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  • Sandeep Karmarkar
  • Goutam Dutta

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In this paper, we address the issue of capacitated revenue management (RM) in the restaurant industry. First we present an integer programming (IP) model to find the optimal table-mix for a restaurant. Then we address the acceptance–rejection issue by IP to incorporate the continuous realisation of actual demand over a finite time horizon. We also analyse the implications of various manually easy-to-implement operational policies like one-up (parties can be seated at tables of the same or next-higher size) and higher levels of nesting. Our results show that an RM model yields about 33% additional revenue over one-up nesting. Also, the high percentage of optimal revenue (using RM models) achieved by some of these policies is associated with an increase in waiting time.

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  • Sandeep Karmarkar & Goutam Dutta, 2011. "Optimal table-mix and acceptance–rejection problems in restaurants," International Journal of Revenue Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 5(1), pages 1-15.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijrevm:v:5:y:2011:i:1:p:1-15
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