Showing posts with label restaurants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label restaurants. Show all posts
Friday, May 1, 2020

Yelping about restaurant health violations, by Dai and Luca

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Online reviews, like Yelp, can play an effective role in disseminating information about restaurant hygiene scores... Digitizing Disclosu...
Friday, January 27, 2017

Restaurants without tipping

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The NY Times has the story: Year of Upheaval for Restaurants That Ended Tipping " A rational system is exactly what he was hoping ...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Will there soon be large-scale markets for restaurant reservations?

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I've been hearing the drumbeat for a while, and here's the NY Times on some new apps that seek to charge for restaurant reservation...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Why it's hard to get hot restaurant reservations or concert tickets (and why concierges sometimes can)

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It turns out you need professional gear to get some reservations: the New Statesman has a report from the front . The Bot Wars: why you c...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Unraveling in the market for chefs?

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It turns out that good restaurants need good cooks, and they are hard to find and keep in the growing market for fancy restaurants:  Talent ...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

How restaurants deal with no-shows

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Here's an article from eater.com with interesting details on the different marketplace institutions being tried to limit no-shows at hig...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Incentive compatibility in a giant outdoor 18th century restaurant

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"the waiters were prevented from cheating the management by being made to pay cash from their own pockets for everything they ordered f...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Tips, Tip Pooling, and Tip Credits

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Restaurant wait-staff in the United States make a significant part of their incomes in tips left by satisfied or habit-driven or social-norm...
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Saturday, October 2, 2010

The market for knife sharpening

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There was a time when knife sharpeners brought their grindstones to the meat packers and butchers who were their main customers, and sharpen...
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Sunday, June 20, 2010

Indian weddings in New England: the hotel market

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The Boston Globe reports: For hotels, a perfect match--Recession-hit hosts embrace Indian weddings. "On a hot, sunny Saturday in early ...
Sunday, February 28, 2010

The market for cooked food (and thoughts of D'Artagnan at Maastricht)

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The market for pleasure boats ranges from canoes to yachts, and air transport ranges from economy class to big private jets, but the market ...
Saturday, November 21, 2009

Restaurant reservations

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An interesting paper by Alexei Alexandrov and Martin A. Lariviere asks Are Reservations Recommended? From the abstract: "We examine th...