Posting Nutrition Information on Menus Lowers Customers’ Calorie Counts

Posted by kellyb on February 17, 2010 under Nutrition | Comments are off for this article

Beware of the effects calorie and nutrition information have on your sales.     Researchers from the Stanford Graduate School of Business found that calorie posting in New York…
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Study: calories do count

Posted by kellyb on February 16, 2010 under Nutrition, Uncategorized | Comments are off for this article

Read about the effects of calorie information on you sales….. A study at Ohio State University found that when menu information offered at a university dining center included calorie information, guests ordered lower-calorie entrées more often than when that information wasn’t posted. Overall, total sales didn’t suffer, however.


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Study: Virtual menus with nutritional info most favored technology

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Find out what technology consumers value most…..A comparison study of restaurant technologies found that consumers felt tableside displays of virtual menus with nutritional information to be the most valuable, followed by pagers for table management and hand-held point-of-sale terminals for line busting, Cornell University researchers said.


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Burgerville tests nutrition data on receipts

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Read about the latest technology to report nutritional information to consumers. …Burgerville said Monday it is testing at a unit here technology that calculates the nutritional metrics of individual orders, customized or standard, and prints them on receipts.


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Contract feeders to support anti-obesity push

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Find out how restaurants are helping to rid the nation of childhood obesity… The National Restaurant Association hailed the big three on-site foodservice providers Tuesday for joining first lady Michelle Obama in her quest to eliminate childhood obesity within a generation.
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