I think it is good example for "bundling" or vertical integration. Like a free 
Microsoft Internet Explorer (see S. Landsburgs Slate column) the buyer is better off, 
if the seller offers two complementary goods like meals and toilets in a bundle than a 
seperate offer. If you are in a restaurant the barkeeper owns a kind of monopoly with 
regard to meals and a indoor toilet. Of course he can offer both seperatly and get a 
price where marginal revenue equals marginal costs. If he offers both together he can 
only charge a lower price (because marginal revenue goes up and thatswhy monopoly 
price goes down), but the buyer is better off and the restaurant gets more customers.

Steffen 


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