Critical Reasoning

At a large, popular restaurant, a reduction of 25 percent in the number of patrons each night would allow the management to get rid of the common long lines of people waiting to eat dinner. A second, partner restaurant, a 25 minute drive away, would, if refurbished, be an attractive alternative for half of the patrons who visit the first restaurant. Nevertheless, a waiter at the restaurant is confident that refurbishing the partner restaurant would not end the long lines at the original location.

Which of the following, if true, most helps to justify the waiter's position?


(A) Refurbishing the second restaurant would require not only redecorating and new furniture, but also the creation of a menu suitable to that location's chef, which would be a substantially different menu from that of the original location.

(B) A third location, next door to the first one, would be a perfectly attractive alternative to patrons of the first location, if minor adjustments to the storefront were made.

(C) The second restaurant is located on a relatively undeveloped property which might be home to other attractive businesses--especially if traffic to the restaurant there were to grow.

(D) If a patron has to wait to be seated at a given restaurant, there is an increased chance that that same person will not return again to the restaurant.

(E) The first restaurant is inside the same shopping mall as a popular movie theater.

OA : E

What is the source of this question? It does not seem like an official question.

E seems to be the better option.

It suggests probably that many of the restaurant's customers are moviegoers and therefore might not want to drive 25 minutes to another restaurant to eat.
They probably like the fact that restaurant's location is very convenient to watch movies.

A - even though this suggests that the other restaurant's menu would be substantially different, we know that it is still an "attractive alternative". So, probably people might drive and eat there.

Other options do not seem to be relevant.