Zan Azlett and Angela Zesiger have joined forces to start​ A&Z Lettuce​ Products, a processor of packaged shredded lettuce for institutional use. Zan has years of food processing​ experience, and Angela has extensive commercial food preparation experience. The process will consist of opening crates of lettuce and then​ sorting, washing,​ slicing, preserving, and finally packaging the prepared lettuce.​ Together, with help from​ vendors, they think they can adequately estimate​ demand, fixed​ costs, revenues, and variable cost per bag of lettuce. They think a largely manual process will have monthly fixed costs of $37,500 and variable costs of $1.60 per bag. A more mechanized process will have fixed costs of $75,000 per month with variable costs of $1.00 per bag. They expect to sell the shredded lettuce for $2.50 per bag.