3QUESTION 3 OF 3
Answer & explanation
The official answer, with Fermi’s reasoning step by step.
Answer & explanation
Official answer
2,000,000
dollars
How to estimate it
Fermi’s official “Napkin math”
Picture one Taco Bell for a day. How many customers come through? Maybe 500. What does the average order run? Call it 10 dollars. Now multiply by 365 days.
- Customers per day
- ~500
- Average order
- × $10
- × 365 days
- ≈ $1.8 million
Rounded assumptions may give a slightly different estimate. The official answer above is the game’s reference value.
Source calculation & reference
- US Taco Bell locations
- ~7,300
- US system sales (2023)
- ~$14.5 billion
- Per store (AUV)
- ≈ $2 million
Reference cited by Fermi: Yum! Brands 2023 filings; Restaurant Dive (Taco Bell US AUV)
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