12 pages., Online via UI e-subscription., The author compiled restaurant sales and unit count estimates for 155 restaurant chains during 1981 through 1998. Unit-level sales and advertising expenditures were calculated by averaging annual system-wide totals by the number of units in operation during the year. Findings supported hypotheses that national advertising does not provide a positive return to advertising for many chain units and a larger proportion of chains exhibit a positive return to advertising at the system level than at the unit level.
Alston, Julian M. (author) and Parks, Joanna C. (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2012-02
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 188 Document Number: D01159
Notes:
Paper presented at the 56th annual Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Conference, Fremental, Western Australia, February 7-10, 2012. 32 pages.