Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to assess the reasonableness of both the prediction and the argument upon which it is based. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
The following appeared in a memorandum from the owner of the Juniper Cafe, a small, local coffee shop .in the downtown area of a small American city: "We must reduce overhead here at the cafe. Instead of opening at 6 a.m. weekdays, we will now open at 8 a.m. On weekends, we will only be open from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. The decrease in hours of operations will help save money because we won't be paying for utilities, employee wages, or other operating costs during the hours we are closed. This is the best strategy for us to save money and remain in business without having to eliminate jobs."
Recently, the owner of Juniper Café, a small local coffee shop in a small American city, stated through a memorandum, that they must reduce overhead costs to save money. The owner has also provided various ways in which reducing overhead time would reduce costs, to support their statement. However, there are many unanswered assumptions, lack of evidence and vague terminologies in this argument.
Firstly, the owner believes that reducing work hours would save them various kinds of operational costs like employee wages, utility bills, etc. However, it is also possible that most of the customers come during the time which the owner was planning to cut out. The owner also mentioned cutting out work hours on weekends, but, it is possible that most people would come to the café on weekends. Cutting down the work hours at such a time could although reduce costs, but, could also reduce revenue significantly.
Secondly, the owner doesn’t wish to eliminate jobs. It can be a possibility that the number of employees working in the café are more than required and removing some employees instead of reducing the working hours could save more money.
Thirdly, the owner assumes that the number of customers would always remain constant in their café. It is possible that because of an upcoming public attraction or festival, the number of customers visiting the café may increase. This could totally eliminate the need to reduce working hour or to eliminate jobs of current employees.
Instead of reducing overhead, the owner may do surveys, or take feedbacks from customers, so as to find out the reason for less sale. The owner could also try out some different things which could attract customers to the café like karaoke or open mic. The owner could also increase the number of items in their menu or offer special discounts or offers to their customers. Doing such things could help the owner to find out ways to increase sales and therefore increase revenue and save more money.
Therefore, in conclusion, it is possible that reducing the overhead time may at the end not be ‘the best’ alternative to have more profit, as the owner believes. There are various faults in this argument, and the owner should work upon these facts and do some studies which may make their argument more convincing.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 91, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...veys, or take feedbacks from customers, so as to find out the reason for less sale. The ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, as to, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.5258426966 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 58.6224719101 84% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1952.0 2235.4752809 87% => OK
No of words: 386.0 442.535393258 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05699481865 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43248042346 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49245418167 2.79657885939 89% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 215.323595506 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.476683937824 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 598.5 704.065955056 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 12.0 4.99550561798 240% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.1507363903 60.3974514979 48% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 108.444444444 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4444444444 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.33333333333 5.21951772744 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0817932189793 0.243740707755 34% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0313992339827 0.0831039109588 38% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0299463715445 0.0758088955206 40% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0502708706315 0.150359130593 33% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0247991216327 0.0667264976115 37% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 100.480337079 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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