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  • Local Restaurants vs. Chains

    Local Restaurants vs. Chains

    A dataset of nearly 800,000 independent and chain restaurants for the contiguous U.S. was used to examine the total number of restaurants with the same name and created an average “chainness” score, which measures the likelihood of finding the same venues in other parts of the country. The paper that examined how “chainy” a community is, by…