Last year, a woman was able to demonstrate that she contracted a bad

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Last year, a woman was able to demonstrate that she contracted a bad case of food poisoning from a meal at one seafood restaurant in Tritonaville, and she successfully sued the restaurant for a large sum of money. The story was popular in the town, and the size of the financial settlement made the national news. Since that case, patronship at this and the ten other seafood restaurants in Tritonaville has remained high, and no other case of food poisoning has been documented at any of them. Nevertheless, some of the other seafood restaurants have experienced a severe drop in profits, so much so that one restaurant was forced to close. This is not surprising, though, because _____________.

Which of the following most logically completes the argument given?

(A) the restaurant market in Tritonaville is fiercely competitive with a large number of good restaurants of many cuisines, making it hard for all of them to remain solvent
(B) some of the cooking methods used for certain specific types of seafood food are less likely to kill germs than are the cooking methods used in most other cuisines
(C) national studies have indicated that, in the wake of a food poisoning scare, restaurant visits typically fall, especially at restaurants of the same cuisine as the original incident
(D) certain types of commercial fishing vessels can be considerably more unsanitary than most other commercial vessels responsible for food transport
(E) these eleven restaurants have incurred legal fees defending themselves against unfounded imitative claims

MofeBhatia · Answer

Premise :   Since that case, patronship at this and the ten other seafood restaurants in Tritonaville has remained high, and no other case of food poisoning has been documented at any of them

Conclusion :   some of the other seafood restaurants have experienced a severe drop in profits, so much so that one restaurant was forced to close.

Bridge the gap with the premise and the conclusion or inother words explaination for the conclusion.

A. Out of scope . fierce competition would have closed the restaurant anytime. Doesn't explain affect of food poisoning on sales.
B. Cooking methods are not discussed in the stem.
C. If 'C option' were true, then sales of all the restaurant would have gone down but it is mentioned in the stem  patronship at this and the ten other seafood restaurants in Tritonaville has remained high 
D. Out of scope. doesnt explain the high sales of the other seafood restaurants.
 E. If restaurants are incurring losses beacause of legal fees and this could be reason that one of them was forced to shutdown.

CrackverbalGMAT · Answer

The right answer is  E . What we are looking for is an explanation for why other restaurants might be in trouble, which has been  impacted by this particular event .

A  - This is tempting, but this situation already existed. The food poisoning case doesn't  change  the situation, so this doesn't follow from the premises of the argument.  OUT

B  - This actually hurts the argument!  OUT

C  - This is tempting too, but we already know that this DIDN'T happen.  OUT

D  - This is totally unrelated.  OUT

E  - This actually makes sense because it offers an explanation for why the restaurants are struggling despite high patronage.

- Matoo

Nmba2021 · Answer

I don't get this solution. The question says other,  some of the other seafood restaurants have experienced a severe drop in profits
  ; which should mean other than the 11 restaurants. How is this some other referring to those 11 only......

arvind910619 · Answer

Hi Nikita,

" Other " is not referring to the 11 seafood restaurants. "Other" is referring to the restaurants excluding those 11.

Ketakindu123 · Answer

the question clearly mentions " the ten other seafood restaurants in Tritonaville has remained high, and no other case of food poisoning has been documented at any of them." How can the other restaurants land up in legal trouble.

Vakru · Answer

The argument talks about profit going down means it should be related to sales or cost of operating.

Between C and E, I would go for C because C gives a reason for other than the 11 restaurants. Can someone pls explain why this thought process is wrong. Also, how does the “other” refer to the 11 restaurants?

Vishalmechie · Answer

The argument talks about profit going down means it should be related to sales or cost of operating.

Between C and E, I would go for C because C gives a reason for other than the 11 restaurants. Can someone pls explain why this thought process is wrong. Also, how does the “other” refer to the 11 restaurants?

CrackverbalGMAT · Answer

It refers to the same set of 'other restaurants' from the 11. Since it says "some of *the* other seafood..." it means that this refers to the same set of other spoken about, not just any other ones.

The part that is paradoxical is, how can it be the case that with high patronage, restaurants are still shutting down. A does not work because even before the woman reported the food poisoning, this competitive situation already existed, and there was no significant drop in profits. What we want is some explanation of how this situation could have caused an impact, even though the impact was not direct.

- Matoo

CrackverbalGMAT · Answer

The mistake here is that we know that this did NOT happen at *the* other restaurants. Maybe usually visitation tends to go down, but we are told in the premises here that visitation remained the same. Therefore, as you said, it has to be related to operating costs. Fighting frivolous legal battles is an operating cost that went up, thereby explaining the profit drops.

The operative word is *the* other, so we are talking about a specific set of 'other' that was already mentioned before, it can only be about these 11.

- Matoo

CrackverbalGMAT · Answer

That is exactly the point. They are ending up in legal trouble because of frivolous lawsuits. Without having done something wrong, they have more cases filed against them. This increases costs and therefore causes them to go bankrupt despite having patronage.

- Matoo

sarkarsarbani · Answer

CrackverbalGMAT   dcummins ,
Sorry for asking again, but 'some of the other restaurants' mean excluding those 11 restaurants or few other restaurants among those 11? Can some one pls clarify,I still didn't get what 'some other' means here.

KarishmaB   bb   kevincan   Bunuel

guddo · Answer

Last year, a woman was able to demonstrate that she contracted a bad case of food poisoning from a meal at one seafood restaurant in Tritonaville, and she successfully sued the restaurant for a large sum of money. The story was popular in the town, and the size of the financial settlement made the national news. Since that case, patronship at this and the ten other seafood restaurants in Tritonaville has remained high, and no other case of food poisoning has been documented at any of them. Nevertheless, some of the other seafood restaurants have experienced a severe drop in profits, so much so that one restaurant was forced to close. This is not surprising, though, because _____________. 
 
Which of the following most logically completes the argument given?

There are eleven seafood restaurants in total: the restaurant that was sued and ten others. “Some of the other seafood restaurants” means  some of those ten other restaurants . The puzzle is that these restaurants continued to have high patronship, yet some suffered a severe drop in profits.  The missing statement should therefore provide another reason their costs could have risen sharply.

(A) the restaurant market in Tritonaville is fiercely competitive with a large number of good restaurants of many cuisines, making it hard for all of them to remain solvent

Incorrect. Competition might make restaurants generally less profitable, but it does not explain the particular severe drop in profits following the highly publicized lawsuit.

(B) some of the cooking methods used for certain specific types of seafood food are less likely to kill germs than are the cooking methods used in most other cuisines

Incorrect. This concerns the risk of food poisoning, but no additional cases were documented. It does not explain the drop in profits.

(C) national studies have indicated that, in the wake of a food poisoning scare, restaurant visits typically fall, especially at restaurants of the same cuisine as the original incident

Incorrect. This conflicts with the passage, which explicitly says patronship at all eleven seafood restaurants remained high.

(D) certain types of commercial fishing vessels can be considerably more unsanitary than most other commercial vessels responsible for food transport

Incorrect. This concerns possible contamination but does not explain why some of the ten other restaurants lost profits despite continued high patronship.

(E) these eleven restaurants have incurred legal fees defending themselves against unfounded imitative claims

Correct.   The highly publicized successful lawsuit could have encouraged copycat claims against the seafood restaurants. Defending those claims would create additional legal expenses, allowing some of the ten other restaurants to suffer severe drops in profit  even though their patronship remained   high .

Answer: (E)

guddo · Answer

Yes,  “some of the other seafood restaurants” means some of the ten other seafood restaurants already mentioned , not restaurants outside that group. The phrase  “the other seafood restaurants”  points back to the previously identified set of ten restaurants, and “some of” means only a subset of those ten.

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