Food

Abstract

We conducted a study that looked at what gender walked into the Panera in North Olmsted more often. During our research of topics to study we couldn’t find a study that looked at the correlation between these two topic. We decided a good restaurant to conduct our survey would be Panera because people go there for work meeting, to study, or to eat and this gives the opportunity for all types of people to come to the store. We sat by the door and recorded the gender of each person who walked into the store from 4pm to 6pm the week of May 4th - May 8th. We separated the two hours into twelve ten-minute intervals letting us collect a sample size of 60 intervals. We entered our data into minitab on the the computer. This helped us create graphs and run the hypothesis test for our data. We used a t-test because we used sample data instead of the population data. We got a t-value of -6.19. The probability was then changed to 0.00. We reject the null hypothesis at any given significance because the p-value will be lower than any alpha value. Therefore, we have sufficient evidence that females walk into Panera more often than males.

About Panera

Panera started in 1981 as Au Bon Pain Co. The company purchased Saint Louis Bread Company, a chain of 20 bakery-cafes in St. Louis. They remodeled the stores and changed the names to Panera Bread. With all its potential the owners sold all of Au Bon Pain Co. buisness units except for Panera Bread and and invested the money in Panera Bread. Today the company has grown to one of the worlds top 100 companys. They have done this by making fresh food and coffee daily including bringing fresh dough to its stores daily. They have capitolized by creating a great work space for students and adults including free wi-fi for eveyone.