A fast-food company spends millions of dollars to develop and promote a new hamburger on its menu only to find that consumers won't buy it because they dont like the taste.  From an economic perspective, the company should  keep the hamburger on the menu because they have spent so much money and time developing and promoting the product. spend more money to develop a more efficient way to cook the hamburger so it cooks in a shorter time. pull the hamburger off the menu and treat the development and promotion expenditures as a sunk cost. keep trying to sell the hamburger so that people who developed and promote it have a job with the company.

Economics Today and Tomorrow, Student Edition
1st Edition
ISBN:9780078747663
Author:McGraw-Hill
Publisher:McGraw-Hill
Chapter11: Marketing And Distribution
Section: Chapter Questions
Problem 7AA
icon
Related questions
Question

A fast-food company spends millions of dollars to develop and promote a new hamburger on its menu only to find that consumers won't buy it because they dont like the taste.  From an economic perspective, the company should 

keep the hamburger on the menu because they have spent so much money and time developing and promoting the product.

spend more money to develop a more efficient way to cook the hamburger so it cooks in a shorter time.

pull the hamburger off the menu and treat the development and promotion expenditures as a sunk cost.

keep trying to sell the hamburger so that people who developed and promote it have a job with the company.

Expert Solution
trending now

Trending now

This is a popular solution!

steps

Step by step

Solved in 4 steps

Blurred answer
Knowledge Booster
Use of Resources
Learn more about
Need a deep-dive on the concept behind this application? Look no further. Learn more about this topic, economics and related others by exploring similar questions and additional content below.
Similar questions
  • SEE MORE QUESTIONS
Recommended textbooks for you
Economics Today and Tomorrow, Student Edition
Economics Today and Tomorrow, Student Edition
Economics
ISBN:
9780078747663
Author:
McGraw-Hill
Publisher:
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Pub Co
Exploring Economics
Exploring Economics
Economics
ISBN:
9781544336329
Author:
Robert L. Sexton
Publisher:
SAGE Publications, Inc
Economics:
Economics:
Economics
ISBN:
9781285859460
Author:
BOYES, William
Publisher:
Cengage Learning
Principles of Economics 2e
Principles of Economics 2e
Economics
ISBN:
9781947172364
Author:
Steven A. Greenlaw; David Shapiro
Publisher:
OpenStax