{"id":3987,"date":"2014-05-08T18:21:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T18:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marketingteacher.com\/consumer-behavior-and-eating-habits\/"},"modified":"2014-05-08T18:36:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T18:36:15","slug":"consumer-behavior-and-eating-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/consumer-behavior-and-eating-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Behavior and Eating Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Consumer Behavior<\/h1>\n<h2>Situational Influences and Eating Habits<\/h2>\n<p>What and how people choose to eat is not a conscious decision; it is affected by colors, smells, lighting, plate size and culture. Numerous studies on eating habits have revealed some surprising facts:<\/p>\n<li>Teens who buy lunch with cash buy more junk food than if they use a debit card.<\/li>\n<li>People will eat more M&#038;M\u2019s if they are in 10 colors rather than 7 because they\u2019ll crave the variety. People who have more menu options eat more and if there is any semblance of variety (colors) it ups the intake even more.<\/li>\n<li>In an experiment, people in a movie theater were given tubs of stale popcorn, those who got bigger tubs still ate 35% more.<\/li>\n<li>Professional bartenders cannot overcome this one\u2013 they always pour more alcohol into a short wide glass rather than a tall skinny glass.<\/li>\n<li>People who eat at Subway, thinking it is healthy, compensate later by filling up on more snacks than a McDonalds eater.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What Does The World Eat? Take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/hungryplanet\">Hungry Planet.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A bigger spoon causes people to eat 15% more.<\/li>\n<li>A bigger plate causes people to eat 25% more.<\/li>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C|\/Users\/Tim\/www\/image\/content\/eating_habits.gif\" alt=\"eating habits\" \/><\/p>\n<li>A cold restaurant will make people eat more food, as will fresh flowers on the table.<\/li>\n<li>People will eat 28% more food if the plates are cleared from the table, rather than piled up.<\/li>\n<li>Red tablecloths will increase the appetite and people will eat more.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer Behavior Situational Influences and Eating Habits What and how people choose to eat is not a conscious decision; it is affected by colors, smells, lighting, plate size and culture. Numerous studies on eating habits have revealed some surprising facts: Teens who buy lunch with cash buy more junk food than if they use a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketingteacher.com\/staging\/5483\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}