Statement of the Problem

       The purpose of our study is to determine whether there is is a relationship between gender and your preference at Chipotle, burrito or burrito bowl. Although this study does not necessarily include a problem, we thought it would be interesting to find reasoning behind someones decision at a favorite restaurant of ours, and whether gender influences that decision in some way. We are tired of un-appealing studies including gpa, act scores, sat scores, and athletics and wanted to learn more about something interesting, different, and more appealing than the general studies created. This led us to decide on our Chipotle study because it is different than all other previous studies created  and equally more appealing because most teenagers adore the food there. In this study, we hope to find a gender preference between the burrito and burrito bowl at the Chipotle fast food restaurant.  

           Abstract:

             For our study, we decided to determine if there is an association between gender and their preferences at the fast food restaurant of Chipotle, burrito or burrito bowl. To collect our data we sat at the North Olmsted Chipotle restaurant for five weekdays, 5/20/13 to 5/24/13, an hour each day, broken into four 15 minute segments, and tallied the customer’s gender and what they purchased, burrito or burrito bowl. We tallied a total of 332 customers in the five days. After collecting the sample, we created a frequency table (2x2) that contained gender, male or female, and selection of bowl or burrito. Once done, we ran a chi squared test for independence at the .01 level of significance. From the test, we calculated a chi squared of 10.4718 and a p-value of .00121 at 1 degree of freedom. Therefore at the .01 level of significance we were able to reject our null because our p-value was less then alpha; there is evidence to show that there is an association between gender and preference at chipotle.

            Some of the weaknesses of our study are that people ordered several items including both burritos and bowls; therefore we were not entirely sure which one they preferred more. People as well purchased items other than burritos/bowls and we did not include them in our study. 

            Lastly, we do feel it is possible to extrapolate our findings to other populations outside the North Olmsted branch, to all male/females in general. This is because there are not many extraneous factors that would cause a different result in other areas. Just because a Chipotle restaurant is in a different area of the country would not cause genders to switch preferences.