Crunchy Chips Is a Potato Chip Manufacturer

Multiple Choice

Crunchy Chips is a potato chip manufacturer. To produce the chips, Crunchy Chips needs to first peel and slice the potatoes and then fry them within two minutes of slicing to prevent browning. If Crunchy Chips is unable to fry the potatoes within two minutes, it must freeze the chips and later defrost them to fry them. Which of the following is true for Crunchy Chips?

A) Vertically integrating the slicing and frying process will increase production costs.
B) Crunchy Chips has no production technological interdependency.
C) Crunchy Chips has production technological interdependency.
D) Crunchy Chips faces a hold- up problem.