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Calorie Posting in Chain Restaurants / Bryan Bollinger, Phillip Leslie, Alan Sorensen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bollinger, Bryan.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15648.
- NBER working paper series no. w15648
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2010.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- January 2010.
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