[Vision2020] Local taco economics

[Don Coombs]

39,358 is an impressive number! It's like a river of tacos flowing out of
the restaurant. Well, a good sized creek. Would you believe one taco every
1-1/2 second? That's rough arithmetic, figuring they might have been open
18 hours. Of course they wouldn't have been selling many at 6 a.m. or
almost midnight, so at times there must have been three or four tacos going
out a second.

Next I will figure out how many heads of lettuce per minute were needed. Or
not.

Don Coombs

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> Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 17:16:12 -0700
> From: kmmos1 at frontier.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Local taco economics
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>
> Hola!
>
> The local Taco Time on Sixth Street is displaying on its advertising sign
> that they sold 39,358 tacos during their Cinco de Mayo sale of 69 cent
> tacos.
>
> Considering the Moscow population to be 23,866, then deducting 16 percent
> for underage kids, leaves about 20,047 adults.  Dividing this number into
> the number of tacos sold means that this year's Cinco de Mayo TPC -- Tacos
> Per Capita -- is 1.96.  In other words, enough tacos were sold May 5th so
> that almost every adult in town could have had two tacos, if they were all
> equally distributed.
>
> As far as economic statistics are concerned, it may not be as grand as
> full employment, but a local TPC approaching 2.0 is a pretty impressive
> number nonetheless.
>
>
> Ken
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