Implementation of TOPSIS Methods in Determining Makassar Special Culinary Business Location

A typical Makassar culinary business that offers a variety of benefits such as typical food is sought after by tourists visiting the city of Makassar, and typical Makassar food has been widely known by the public. Nevertheless, culinary business is not infrequently failing, one of the causes is location. The selection of locations that do not meet certain criteria directly impacts the failure of the culinary business. During this time, the determination of the feasibility of the business location for the object under study still uses conventional methods that require time and cost to conduct a location determination survey, therefore, it is important to choose a method to determine the proper location of the business and supported by the appropriate calculation pattern. In this study, the TOPSIS method was used to build a system that can solve the Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) problem for the feasibility of the best culinary business location, by calculating 5 criteria and 10 alternatives, the positive ideal solution value is 11.66, the negative solution value the ideal is 13.41, and the Closeness Relative value is 0.535.