question archive Purpose:   This assignment is intended to help you learn how to apply statistical methods when analyzing operational data, evaluating the performance of current marketing strategies, and recommending actionable business decisions

Purpose:   This assignment is intended to help you learn how to apply statistical methods when analyzing operational data, evaluating the performance of current marketing strategies, and recommending actionable business decisions

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Purpose:

 

This assignment is intended to help you learn how to apply statistical methods when analyzing operational data, evaluating the performance of current marketing strategies, and recommending actionable business decisions. This is an opportunity to build critical thinking and problem-solving skills within the context of data analysis and interpretation. You’ll gain a first-hand understanding of how data analytics supports decision-making and adds value to an organization.

 

Scenario: 

Pastas R Us, Inc. is a fast-casual restaurant chain specializing in noodle-based dishes, soups, and salads. Since its inception, the business development team has favored opening new restaurants in areas (within a 3-mile radius) that satisfy the following demographic conditions:

· Median age is between 25 – 45 years old

· Household median income above the national average

· At least 15% college-educated adult population

 

Last year, the marketing department rolled out a Loyalty Card strategy to increase sales. Under this program, customers present their Loyalty Card when paying for their orders and receive some free food after making 10 purchases.

 

The company has collected data from its 74 restaurants to track important variables such as average sales per customer, year-on-year sales growth, sales per sq. ft., Loyalty Card usage as a percentage of sales, and others. A key metric of financial performance in the restaurant industry is annual sales per sq. ft. For example, if a 1200 sq. ft. restaurant recorded $2 million in sales last year, then it sold $1,667 per sq. ft.

 

Executive management wants to know whether the current expansion criteria can be improved. They want to evaluate the effectiveness of the Loyalty Card marketing strategy and identify feasible, actionable opportunities for improvement. As a member of the analytics department, you’ve been assigned the responsibility of conducting a thorough statistical analysis of the company’s available database to answer executive management’s questions.

 

Report:

 

Please note carefully: The report should be in an APA formatted Word document. You must cut the scatter and any other tables from Excel and paste those in sections 1 and 2 of your report. There will be a 20% deduction if you submit your scatter on an Excel page and ask your reader to look up the scatter or tables on the Excel page since that will indicate that you did not fully understand that a report should be complete, and your reader should not have to look up any other information anywhere else. Please note that you already completed the "descriptive statistics" part in the week-1 assignment.

 

 

Write a 750-word statistical report that includes the following sections:

· Section 1: Scope and descriptive statistics

· Section 2: Analysis

· Section 3: Recommendations and Implementation

 

Section 1 - Scope and descriptive statistics

· State the report’s objective.

· Discuss the nature of the current database. What variables were analyzed?

· Summarize your descriptive statistics findings from Excel. Use a table and insert appropriate graphs.

 

Section 2 - Analysis 

· Using Excel, create scatter plots and display the regression equations for the following pairs of variables:

· “BachDeg%” versus “Sales/SqFt”

· “MedIncome” versus “Sales/SqFt”

· “MedAge” versus “Sales/SqFt”

· “LoyaltyCard(%)” versus “SalesGrowth(%)”

· In your report, include the scatter plots. For each scatter plot, designate the type of relationship observed (increasing/positive, decreasing/negative, or no relationship) and determine what you can conclude from these relationships.

 

Section 3: Recommendations and implementation

· Based on your findings above, assess which expansion criteria seem to be more effective. Could any expansion criterion be changed or eliminated? If so, which one and why?

· Based on your findings above, does it appear as if the Loyalty Card is positively correlated with sales growth? Would you recommend changing this marketing strategy?

· Based on your previous findings, recommend a marketing positioning that targets a specific demographic. (Hint: Are younger people patronizing the restaurants more than older people?)

· Indicate what information should be collected to track and evaluate the effectiveness of your recommendations. How can this data be collected? (Hint: Would you use survey/samples or census?)

 

Cite references to support your assignment.

 

Format your citations according to APA guidelines.

 

Submit your assignment by following the guidance below.

 

 

1. Save your assignment in your local drive with your first name-last name-week-2 assignment. Please do not type any extensions (such as DOC or DOCX, etc.). The system will automatically add the extension. (10 points)

2. Please make sure that all three sections are complete, and the appropriate graphs and tables are included in the report (Not submitted as a separate Excel page).

3. Upload the document.

4. Once uploaded, please open the document from your submission to make sure that this is the document you wanted to submit. Because once I grade the assignment, you cannot resubmit the assignment for a higher grade.

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