Healthfulness of Fast-Food and Full-Service Restaurants in 16 Georgia Counties after Mandatory Menu Labeling
Background: Despite that the effect of menu labeling on consumer choices has been studied, there are gaps in the research on the healthfulness of the restaurant food environment post-mandatory menu labeling, specifically in the Southern United States. This study aims to assess the healthfulness of f...
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| description | Background: Despite that the effect of menu labeling on consumer choices has been studied, there are gaps in the research on the healthfulness of the restaurant food environment post-mandatory menu labeling, specifically in the Southern United States. This study aims to assess the healthfulness of fast-food and full-service chain restaurant environments after compliance with mandatory menu labeling.
Methods: The healthfulness of 46 representative fast-food and full-service chain restaurants in 16 Georgia counties was examined using the Nutritional Environment Measures in Restaurants (NEMS-R) survey. The scores were compared between full-service and fast-food restaurants using t-tests across several healthfulness measures such as facilitators and barriers to healthful eating.
Results: Fast-food restaurants had more barriers to healthy eating than full-service restaurants. Specifically, fast-food restaurants, compared to full-service restaurants were more likely to encourage large portions (60.9% vs. 17.4%, p=0.006) and offer combination meals at a cheaper price than the sum price of individual items (56.5% vs. 21.7%, p=0.033).
Conclusions: Findings on the post-menu labeling chain restaurant food environment in our study does not show improvements from the extant evidence on pre menu labeling food environment. Further, NEMS-R scores for both fast-food and full-service restaurants indicated the need for improvements in the healthfulness of chain fast-food and full-service restaurants’ food environments. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e22ce8ba0b034231afec68f2bf0dfc6d2024-01-11T16:41:05ZengGeorgia Southern UniversityJournal of the Georgia Public Health Association2471-97732022-01-018317017510.20429/jgpha.2022.080321Healthfulness of Fast-Food and Full-Service Restaurants in 16 Georgia Counties after Mandatory Menu LabelingJanani Rajbhandari-Thapa Donglan ZhangNicole KatapodisDana AlvinMelanie AndrewsBackground: Despite that the effect of menu labeling on consumer choices has been studied, there are gaps in the research on the healthfulness of the restaurant food environment post-mandatory menu labeling, specifically in the Southern United States. This study aims to assess the healthfulness of fast-food and full-service chain restaurant environments after compliance with mandatory menu labeling. Methods: The healthfulness of 46 representative fast-food and full-service chain restaurants in 16 Georgia counties was examined using the Nutritional Environment Measures in Restaurants (NEMS-R) survey. The scores were compared between full-service and fast-food restaurants using t-tests across several healthfulness measures such as facilitators and barriers to healthful eating. Results: Fast-food restaurants had more barriers to healthy eating than full-service restaurants. Specifically, fast-food restaurants, compared to full-service restaurants were more likely to encourage large portions (60.9% vs. 17.4%, p=0.006) and offer combination meals at a cheaper price than the sum price of individual items (56.5% vs. 21.7%, p=0.033). Conclusions: Findings on the post-menu labeling chain restaurant food environment in our study does not show improvements from the extant evidence on pre menu labeling food environment. Further, NEMS-R scores for both fast-food and full-service restaurants indicated the need for improvements in the healthfulness of chain fast-food and full-service restaurants’ food environments.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/jgpha/vol8/iss3/21/food environmenthealthfulnessmandatory menu labeling |
| spellingShingle | Janani Rajbhandari-Thapa Donglan Zhang Nicole Katapodis Dana Alvin Melanie Andrews Healthfulness of Fast-Food and Full-Service Restaurants in 16 Georgia Counties after Mandatory Menu Labeling Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association food environment healthfulness mandatory menu labeling |
| title | Healthfulness of Fast-Food and Full-Service Restaurants in 16 Georgia Counties after Mandatory Menu Labeling |
| title_full | Healthfulness of Fast-Food and Full-Service Restaurants in 16 Georgia Counties after Mandatory Menu Labeling |
| title_fullStr | Healthfulness of Fast-Food and Full-Service Restaurants in 16 Georgia Counties after Mandatory Menu Labeling |
| title_full_unstemmed | Healthfulness of Fast-Food and Full-Service Restaurants in 16 Georgia Counties after Mandatory Menu Labeling |
| title_short | Healthfulness of Fast-Food and Full-Service Restaurants in 16 Georgia Counties after Mandatory Menu Labeling |
| title_sort | healthfulness of fast food and full service restaurants in 16 georgia counties after mandatory menu labeling |
| topic | food environment healthfulness mandatory menu labeling |
| url | https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/jgpha/vol8/iss3/21/ |
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