Healthy meals on the menu: a Swedish field experiment on labelling and restaurant sales

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  • Linda Thunström
  • Leif Jonas Nordström
  • Jason Shogren
Menu labelling of meals prepared away from home is a policy designed to help consumers make healthier food choices. In this paper we use a field experiment in Sweden to examine if a restaurant benefits from introducing a meal labelled as healthy 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 meal labelled as healthy on the menu, i.e. our data does not support the idea that restaurants increase their sales from supplying a meal labelled as healthy.
Original languageEnglish
Article number6
JournalAfrican Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Volume11
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)63-68
ISSN1993-3738
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2016

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