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A Note on the Impact on Sales from Introducing Healthy Labeled Meals on the Lunch Menu

Thunström, Linda and Nordström, Jonas LU (2012) In Working Paper 2012(30).
Abstract
Menu labeling of prepared meals away from home is a policy designed to help consumers make healthier food choices. In this paper, we use a field experiment to analyze if a restaurant benefits from introducing a healthy labeled meal on its menu by experiencing an overall increase

in sales. We cannot reject the hypothesis that sales are the same before and after the introduction of a healthy labeled meal on the menu, i.e., our data does not support the idea that restaurants increase their sales from supplying a healthy labeled meal.
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30
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Department of Economics, Lund University
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