consumption on purchasing behavior at a restaurant chain. We find that customers, in the aggregate, made most of the item …

and social frictions influence restaurant visits within New York City. Transit time plays a first-order role in … on restaurant choices: individuals are less likely to visit venues in neighborhoods demographically different from their … restaurant consumption in New York City is only about half as segregated as residences. Consumption segregation owes more to …

restaurant food, but it remains unclear the extent to which this information disclosure affects consumer knowledge. This paper … disclosure significantly reduces the extent to which consumers underestimate the number of calories in restaurant food; the … content of the restaurant food they ordered. Even among the treatment group who received calorie labels, the average absolute …

restaurant hygiene. We first extract signals of hygiene from Yelp. Among all dimensions that regulators monitor through mandated … restaurant inspections, we find that reviews are more informative about hygiene dimensions that consumers directly experience … - food temperature and pests - than other dimensions. Next, we find causal evidence that consumer demand is sensitive to …

Subway restaurant. These results contrast with past studies of negative information disclosure, which tend to find negative …

TripAdvisor data on restaurant cuisines, along with Euromonitor data on overall and fast food expenditure, this paper calculates … market for another cultural good, food at restaurants, is roughly ten times larger than the markets for music and film. Using … most popular cuisines are Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, and American. Third, excluding fast food, the largest net …