Calorie posting in chain restaurants / Bryan Bollinger, Phillip Leslie, Alan Sorensen.

Author/creator Bollinger, Bryan
Other author Leslie, Phillip.
Other author Sorensen, Alan T. (Alan Tad), 1972-
Other author National Bureau of Economic Research.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research,
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SeriesNBER working paper series ; working paper 15648
Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ; working paper no. 15648. UNAUTHORIZED
Summary "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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