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 …