I cannot think of a single actual food critic that would consider it acceptable for a restaurant to serve a dish for review that they went to the restaurant next door to get. If the critic wanted to eat at/review that restaurant they would simply have gone there instead.
His point, exactly.
what is the point? this whole restaurant analogy is completely fictitious and happens nowhere, and the scenario i'm describing is happening all the time... why not just talk about the not imaginary scenario?