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18 Jun 2017, 09:20
"Over the past decade, the restaurant industry in the country of Spiessa has experienced unprecedented growth. This surge can be expected to continue in the coming years, fueled by recent social changes: personal incomes are rising, more leisure time is available, single-person households are more common, and people have a greater interest in gourmet food, as evidenced by a proliferation of publications on the subject."
The following argument is flawed for numerous reasons. It fails to provide justifications when suggesting that the restaurant industry will continue its unprecedented growth. The article number several indicators that would indicate growth such as personal income and leisure time and the frequency of single-person households without pointing out why those would be evidences for the conclusion. Also, it poorly connects the overall interest in the gourmet segment with the amount of publications.
First of all, the growth of personal income and leisure time could be directed to others activities other then the restaurant industry. The argument could be strenghthen if evidence such as pool surveys by population income segments shown a correlation to the preference of restaurants.
The argument also fails to provide the connection between single-person households and the per person restaurant spending. The vague expression poorly used to indicate the frequency of single-person households could be strenghthen by a number evidence of growth as percentage of total population.
Lastly, the section indicates a correlation between population interest in gourmet restaurants with the number of publications on the subject. That correlation is flawed when failing to address other cases for the increase of publications such as minority of journalists or experts that do not influence overall population consume.
Because the argument makes several unwarranted assumptions, it fails to provide justifications for its main conclusion that the restaurant industry will continue to grow.