The following is a recommendation from the Board of Directors of Monarch Books."We recommend that Monarch Books open a café in its store. Monarch, having been in business at the same location for more than twenty years, has a large customer base because i

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The following is a recommendation from the Board of Directors of Monarch Books.

"We recommend that Monarch Books open a café in its store. Monarch, having been in business at the same location for more than twenty years, has a large customer base because it is known for its wide selection of books on all subjects. Clearly, opening the café would attract more customers. Space could be made for the café by discontinuing the children's book section, which will probably become less popular given that the most recent national census indicated a significant decline in the percentage of the population under age ten. Opening a café will allow Monarch to attract more customers and better compete with Regal Books, which recently opened its own café."

Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.

The argument makes a number of unwarranted assumptions regarding the significant decline in the population under age ten and discontinuation of children's section books.The accusations made by the author are not backed up with appropriate reasons.

Taking a step deep into analyzing the given argument, the recommendation states that opening a cafe along a already existing books store Monarch for last twenty years will help them to increase their business. It is right that with a large number of customer record, a added cafe within the premises of Monarch will be a vantage. And it will surely ...

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