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Calorie Posting in Chain Restaurants∗
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 lo...
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BACKGROUND Calorie posting in chain restaurants has received increasing attention as a policy lever to reduce energy intake. Little research has assessed consumer understanding of overall daily energy requirements or perceived effectiveness of calorie posting. METHODS A phone survey was conducted from May 1 through 17, 2009 with 663 randomly selected, nationally-representative adults aged 18 ...
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BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to examine reading and use of calorie information at fast-food/chain restaurants. METHODS A cross-sectional analysis was conducted on a sample of 4363 US adults using the 2009 HealthStyles survey. The outcome variable was reading calorie information when available while ordering at fast-food/chain restaurants. Among those who go to fast-food/chain restaura...
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OBJECTIVE To analyze the added sugars in kids' meals from Canadian chain restaurants in relation to the World Health Organization's proposed sugar recommendation (less than 5% of total daily calories should come from added sugars) and current recommendation (less than 10% of total daily calories should come from added sugars). METHODS Total sugar levels were retrieved from the websites of 10 ...
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OBJECTIVE To investigate estimation of calorie (energy) content of meals from fast food restaurants in adults, adolescents, and school age children. DESIGN Cross sectional study of repeated visits to fast food restaurant chains. SETTING 89 fast food restaurants in four cities in New England, United States: McDonald's, Burger King, Subway, Wendy's, KFC, Dunkin' Donuts. PARTICIPANTS 1877 ad...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1945-7731,1945-774X
DOI: 10.1257/pol.3.1.91