This question evaluates a candidate's competency in data-driven root-cause analysis, causal inference, experiment design, instrumentation, and metric definition for diagnosing operational product-quality issues.

You are a Data Scientist at a large food-delivery marketplace. Customer complaints about meals arriving cold have increased. You need to diagnose root causes and propose data-driven fixes.
Outline how you would investigate and solve this problem. Specifically cover:
Assume you can add minimal instrumentation if needed (e.g., new timestamps or merchant attributes). Be explicit about assumptions where data may be missing.
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