Consumer Willingness-to-Pay for Local Food in Alternative Restaurant Formats

Mahla Zare Mehrjerdi, Timothy Woods

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Abstract

Recent U.S. National Restaurant Surveys show four out of ten hot trending concepts from the consumers’ point of view are concepts relating to local sourcing, including hyper-local, locally sourced meat and seafood, locally sourced produce, and farm/estate branded items. Consumers are signaling that they value locally sourced food; therefore, restaurants need to establish a legitimate and efficient way to assure consumers that they are offering a verifiable local sourcing value proposition. In this study, we apply a “tractor” symbol index system designed for a local restaurant tourism directory to understand consumer willingness-to-pay (WTP) for local sourcing intensity signaled by restaurants and measure choice variables across alternative restaurant formats. Stated preference data and a discrete choice experiment (DCE) survey were conducted in Kentucky on over 1600 consumers. Results of the latent class analysis show there is a significant interest in local sourcing within each restaurant format.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)243-263
Number of pages21
JournalJournal of International Food and Agribusiness Marketing
Volume36
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024

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Keywords

  • Conjoint choice experiment
  • latent class model
  • legitimacy
  • local food
  • restaurants
  • willingness-to-pay

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Business and International Management
  • Food Science
  • Marketing

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