Understanding price incentives to upsize combination meals at large US fast-food restaurants.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To understand price incentives to upsize combination meals at fast-food restaurants by comparing the calories (i.e. kilocalories; 1 kcal = 4·184 kJ) per dollar of default combination meals (as advertised on the menu) with a higher-calorie version (created using realistic consumer additions and portion-size changes).

Design

Combination meals (lunch/dinner: n 258, breakfast: n 68, children's: n 34) and their prices were identified from online menus; corresponding nutrition information for each menu item was obtained from a restaurant nutrition database (MenuStat). Linear models were used to examine the difference in total calories per dollar between default and higher-calorie combination meals, overall and by restaurant.

Setting

Ten large fast-food chain resta

SUBMITTER: Vercammen KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10200672 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature