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Martin’s Cafe

by rahulg83 » Fri Jul 03, 2009 6:33 am
When a new restaurant, Martin’s Cafe, opened in Riverville last year, many people predicted that business at the Wildflower Inn, Riverville’s only other restaurant, would suffer from the competition. Surprisingly, however, in the year since Martin’s Cafe opened, the average number of meals per night served at the Wildflower Inn has increased significantly.

Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain the increase?

* Unlike the Wildflower Inn, Martin’s Cafe serves considerably more meals on weekends than it does on weekdays.
* Most of the customers of Martin’s Cafe had never dined in Riverville before this restaurant opened, and on most days Martin’s Cafe attracts more customers than it can seat.
* The profit per meal is higher, on average, for meals served at Martin’s Cafe than for those served at the Wildflower Inn.
* The Wildflower Inn is not open on Sundays, and therefore Riverville residents who choose to dine out on that day must either eat at Martin’s Cafe or go to neighboring towns to eat.
* A significant proportion of the staff at Martin’s Cafe are people who formerly worked at the Wildflower Inn and were hired away by the owner of Martin’s Cafe.

OA C, not sure how??
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by raghavsarathy » Fri Jul 03, 2009 6:55 am
IMHO - B

The people who had never dined in Wildflower Inn prior to the opening of Martin's cafe should be dining now. Only this an account for the increase in numer of meals served at Wildflower Inn. This is clearly stated in B.

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Re: Martin’s Cafe

by ssmiles08 » Fri Jul 03, 2009 7:15 am
rahulg83 wrote:When a new restaurant, Martin’s Cafe, opened in Riverville last year, many people predicted that business at the Wildflower Inn, Riverville’s only other restaurant, would suffer from the competition. Surprisingly, however, in the year since Martin’s Cafe opened, the average number of meals per night served at the Wildflower Inn has increased significantly.

* Unlike the Wildflower Inn, Martin’s Cafe serves considerably more meals on weekends than it does on weekdays.
* Most of the customers of Martin’s Cafe had never dined in Riverville before this restaurant opened, and on most days Martin’s Cafe attracts more customers than it can seat.
* The profit per meal is higher, on average, for meals served at Martin’s Cafe than for those served at the Wildflower Inn.
* The Wildflower Inn is not open on Sundays, and therefore Riverville residents who choose to dine out on that day must either eat at Martin’s Cafe or go to neighboring towns to eat.
* A significant proportion of the staff at Martin’s Cafe are people who formerly worked at the Wildflower Inn and were hired away by the owner of Martin’s Cafe.
Where is the question? You gave us the stimulus and answer choices but I think you are missing the question.

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by rahulg83 » Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:16 am
hey added the question now..sorry for inconvenience :)
Included OA as well. I think B is the best answer here...
I doubt OA, which seems out of scope.

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Re: Martin’s Cafe

by cata1yst » Fri Jul 03, 2009 10:03 am
rahulg83 wrote:When a new restaurant, Martin’s Cafe, opened in Riverville last year, many people predicted that business at the Wildflower Inn, Riverville’s only other restaurant, would suffer from the competition. Surprisingly, however, in the year since Martin’s Cafe opened, the average number of meals per night served at the Wildflower Inn has increased significantly.

Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain the increase?

* Unlike the Wildflower Inn, Martin’s Cafe serves considerably more meals on weekends than it does on weekdays.
* Most of the customers of Martin’s Cafe had never dined in Riverville before this restaurant opened, and on most days Martin’s Cafe attracts more customers than it can seat.
* The profit per meal is higher, on average, for meals served at Martin’s Cafe than for those served at the Wildflower Inn.
* The Wildflower Inn is not open on Sundays, and therefore Riverville residents who choose to dine out on that day must either eat at Martin’s Cafe or go to neighboring towns to eat.
* A significant proportion of the staff at Martin’s Cafe are people who formerly worked at the Wildflower Inn and were hired away by the owner of Martin’s Cafe.

OA C, not sure how??
C.

I went with C because if the profit per meal is higher at Martin's than it is more expensive than Wildflower. Is this correct logic? I guess I can see that it could be wrong if Marting is charging $8 for a $2 dish and Wildflower is charging $51 for a $52 dish.

Also, I thought the other 4 did not give a valid reason for an increase at Wildflower.

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by Mayur Sand » Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:46 pm
i picked (B) for the reason mentioned above. Price factor seemed out of scope for me since it was never discussed in the para . Please correct me

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by Domnu » Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:18 am
I went with B as well. I don't think we can make such statements as made above for the defense for answer C, because that entails more economics than students who take the GMAT are familiar with.
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by arunpp » Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:22 am
Can you pls tell us where you got this question and the OA? I checked in other forums and the Oa mentioned is B. Pls see these:

https://www.urch.com/forums/gmat-critica ... -23-a.html

https://www.pagalguy.com/forum/gmat-and- ... ns-80.html

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by carpe_diem » Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:43 am
I too agree with B.

C is some what confusing, it says that profit per meals in Martin's cafe is more. Higher profit does not make this thing sure that the Price per meal in Martin's cafe is higher than the price per mean in other cafe. Higher profit may also occur when the raw material (which Martin's cafe) get is cheaper, also the labour cost is less..anything.

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by khanshainur » Sun May 15, 2016 11:53 pm
I would go with option B as the correct option

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by Eric77Gorm » Sun May 15, 2016 11:58 pm
I would go with option B as the correct option