You work for a lending institution and are tasked with whether or not to approve a home loan. all applicants are required to have a 20% down payment, and the standard 28/36 ratio is used the loan application is for $230,000. you see that the applicant has an annual salary of $83,000 and a savings account balance of $50,000. the applicant also has a car payment of $315, a student loan of $140 and a boat loan of $96.

1. what are the unique operational challenges to delivering fresh meals? 2. why is speed of delivery so important for delivered meals? what variety of options contribute to this performance metric? 3. how could operations management concepts be utilized to improve the performance of freshly? 4. what are your typical product delivery times? what would be required to speed these up? 5. what are your delivery batch quantities? how could you reduce batch size and reduce delivery cost simultaneously using operations management concepts?