Application of Linear Programming on Diet Problem for Kenny Roger’s Roaster

Nowadays, people tend to consuming fast food as its convenient, fast to serve and has a good taste. There are a lot of fast foods restaurants in Malaysia such as KFC, Subway, McDonald’s, and others. The restaurants serve various types of menus including breakfast menus, lunch and many more. This caused people to consume fast foods frequently and affect their health and causing health problem such as obesity, heart attack, diabetes, and others. In this paper, we are focusing on Kenny Roger's Roaster fast food restaurant. We suggesting the most suitable menu from Kenny Roger's Roaster for a day to fulfil the daily intake of carbohydrates proteins and fats for men and women. By using linear programming model helps us approach the optimal calories, carbohydrates, proteins and fats for men and women. We use the nutritional value chart from Kenny Roger's menus and this problem will be solved by using Excel solver. The results fulfilled all the needs of daily intake for men and women for calories, carbohydrates, proteins and fats from the Kenny Roger's Roaster menu.