Official Title: Online Randomized Experiment Evaluating Eco-Labels on Restaurant Menus
Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Status Verified Date: 2024-09
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: No
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Brief Summary: The goal of this study is to determine whether eco-labels denoting more sustainable menu items improve the healthfulness of participants entrée and appetizer selections from a restaurant menu US adults will complete a restaurant ordering task in which they will select menu items to order from a mock restaurant menu modeled after a popular US sit-down restaurant Participants will be randomized to a restaurant menu with or without eco-labels denoting more sustainable menu items The investigators will record participants selections from the menu Participants will also answer survey questions
Detailed Description: The goal of this study is to determine whether eco-labels denoting more sustainable menu items improve the healthfulness of participants entrée and appetizer selections The survey research company Cloud Research will recruit a sample of approximately 3100 US adults ages 18 who read and speak English
Participants will complete a between-subjects online randomized experiment They will perform a restaurant ordering task in which they will select menu items to order from a mock restaurant menu modeled after a popular US sit-down restaurant They will be randomized to 1 of 2 conditions 1 eco-labels or 2 control In the eco-labels condition participants will order from a restaurant menu with eco-labels next to more sustainable menu items In the control condition participants will order from a restaurant menu without eco-labels The investigators will record participants selections from the menu After completing the ordering task participants will complete an online survey