,000 restaurant menu items and 51,000 wines. Wine was already commonly present on menus in 1865, and its presence increased up until …We examine the existence of wines in New York City restaurant menus over the period 1865-1920 for a sample of 850 … 1914 before dropping with the outbreak of WWI. Casual restaurants offered a narrower wine selection. Special menus …

opportunity for local producers to market to restaurants. Fifty-one percent of the restaurants surveyed currently purchase local … foods, and over 80 percent of the remaining restaurants would purchase local products if barriers were addressed. To take …

produce industry of potential structural shifts in the location of production. Recent increases in demand for local produce … distribution costs for local produce will ultimately need to drive the supply for these products. …

case, organic and local products. A survey method is used to examine organic and local markets in place of a single product …

restaurant hygiene. We first extract signals of hygiene from Yelp. Among all dimensions that regulators monitor through mandated … restaurant inspections, we find that reviews are more informative about hygiene dimensions that consumers directly experience …

and social frictions influence restaurant visits within New York City. Transit time plays a first-order role in consumption … restaurant choices: individuals are less likely to visit venues in neighborhoods demographically different from their own. While … spatial and social frictions jointly produce significant levels of consumption segregation, we find that restaurant consumption …