Optimal table-mix and acceptance-rejection problems in restaurants

International Journal of Revenue Management

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-15

  Karmarkar, Sandeep ^a   Dutta, Goutam ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Acceptance rejection policy; Allocation; restaurants; Nesting; Optimisation; Penalty function; Revenue management; Simulation; Table mix; Waiting time

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951738979     PISSN: 14747332     EISSN: 17418186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJRM.2011.038616     Document Type: Article

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