Calorie posting in chain restaurants
By: Bryan Bollinger, Phillip Leslie, Alan Sorensen.
Contributors: Leslie, Phillip.; Sorensen, Alan T. 1972-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15648; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15648.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  We study the impact of mandatory calorie posting on consumers' purchase decisions, using detailed data from Starbucks.  We find that average calories per transaction falls by 6 %.  The effect is almost entirely related to changes in consumers' food choices--there is almost no change in purchases of beverage calories.  There is no impact on Starbucks profit on average, and for the subset of stores located close to their competitor Dunkin Donuts, the effect of calorie posting is actually to increase Starbucks revenue.  Survey evidence and analysis of commuters suggest the mechanism for the effect is a combination of learning and salience"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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