A recent sales study indicates that consumption of seafood dishes in Bay City restaurants has increased by 30 percent during the past five years. Yet there are no currently operating city restaurants whose specialty is seafood. Moreover, the majority of families in Bay City are two-income families, and a nationwide study has shown that such families eat significantly fewer home-cooked meals than they did a decade ago but at the same time express more concern about healthful eating. Therefore, the new Captain Seafood restaurant that specializes in seafood should be quite popular and profitable.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The argument mentioned put forward claims that suggest the success of a restaurant specialized in serving seafood. But the reasons suggested for the success are not completely examined before reaching a conclusion. There are few evidences that need to be presented before assuming that the restaurant would be a success. Some of them have been highlighted below.
Firstly, the argument does not give any information on consumption of dishes other than seafood. It could be true that consumption of sea food increased by 30 percent but there might be other dishes whose consumption has increased significantly greater than seafood. Looking into the evidence for this would suggest whether there might be other dishes that the new restaurant could specialize in and gain better profits.
Secondly, the argument states that two-income families are having fewer home-cooked meals and prefer having healthful options in their meals. There are a lot of healthy options of meals on the food market. A survey needs to be conducted to understand whether such families actually prefer seafood for their meals or if there are any other healthy food options that they would like. The results of this evidence could significantly affect the profits and popularity of the new restaurant.
Lastly, since the argument speaks about the profitability of the restaurant, costs of running the restaurant should also be taken into consideration. How expensive would it be to obtain raw sea food for consumption? Is this city on coastal area or does it have any nearby fresh water bodies that reduce the cost of obtaining raw material? Also, if it is expensive to obtain raw fish, to result in profits, the restaurant should sell its dishes for a higher price. Are the people of Bay City ready to pay such high prices for seafood? Such questions need to be answered before starting a restaurant specializing in seafood.
Hence, all this evidence is needed to be evaluated before coming to a conclusion that the new Capitan restaurant will be a profitable business and make a prudent decision before establishing the business.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, lastly, look, second, secondly, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1775.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 343.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1749271137 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30351707066 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80298525933 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 204.123752495 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.504373177843 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 543.6 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.2808073086 57.8364921388 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.6111111111 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0555555556 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.55555555556 5.70786347227 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.173375861923 0.218282227539 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0605967226453 0.0743258471296 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0587947072264 0.0701772020484 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0963234098762 0.128457276422 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0680280607283 0.0628817314937 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 98.500998004 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, lastly, look, second, secondly, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1775.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 343.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1749271137 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30351707066 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80298525933 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 204.123752495 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.504373177843 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 543.6 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.2808073086 57.8364921388 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.6111111111 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0555555556 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.55555555556 5.70786347227 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.173375861923 0.218282227539 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0605967226453 0.0743258471296 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0587947072264 0.0701772020484 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0963234098762 0.128457276422 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0680280607283 0.0628817314937 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 98.500998004 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.