One café for three months is not all four

Lesson map

Lesson 15. Map, example, EX061.

flowchart TD
  A["Business: four cafés, about 3,000 customers"] --> B["Pilot: one café, three months"]
  B --> C["Only if the conditions hold"]
  C --> D{"Has the file started that pilot?"}
  D -->|No| E["Keep the pilot conditional and small"]

The company size and the pilot size are different numbers.

Logical drawing

business
    four cafés
    about 3,000 regular customers
pilot, if the conditions hold
    one café
    three months
not in the file
    a start date
    a finished third month
    all four cafés live
    a per-café split of 3,000

Learning outcomes

After this chapter, you should be able to:

1. Separate the size of the business from the size of the pilot.
2. Keep the pilot conditional.
3. Refuse to spread the pilot across all four cafés.

15.1 The pilot is a limit, and it is still conditional.

Copperleaf Coffee Roasters is four cafés and about 3,000 regular customers. Those figures describe the business Elena manages. They do not describe the trial she is willing to approve. Chapter 4's decision is a three-month pilot in one café. It is conditional on the three gaps being fixed and verified by the contractor, on a monthly balance export, on the exit plan being in the contract, and on personal data staying off the ledger. A condition that is still outstanding means the pilot is not described as under way. The manuscript does not say the three months have elapsed. It does not say the other three cafés have joined. It does not divide the 3,000 customers among the four sites, so a per-café count would be a new number. Mr Otieno's praise, that the decision is proportionate and grounded in evidence, comments on this limited shape. The praise does not enlarge the pilot and does not tick the conditions off. One café remains one café until a later decision, not present here, says otherwise.

15.2 Worked example

Read "four" as the business and "one" as the pilot.

Lesson table; scroll horizontally to read all columns →

Synthetic case. No café is a real shop. The pilot has no street address in this book.

Errors and limits

A conditional yes is smaller than the company. Praise for the limit does not remove the limit.

Apply

• EX061 — How wide is the trial? The business has four cafés and about 3,000 regular customers. Elena's decision is a three-month pilot. How many cafés does that pilot cover, and has it started?
  Show marking criteria

  Rubric: 3 = one café for three months, and only while the conditions hold; the file does not show the pilot started or the three months elapsed; four cafés remain the business;; 2 = one café, still conditional;; 1 = the business size only;; 0 = none.