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A\u00a0paper co-authored by Dr. Yang Yang and MTHM student Jing-huei Huang, entitled\u00a0\u201cNeighborhood Characteristics and Restaurant Location in the United States\u201d, has been accepted for a STAND UP PRESENTATION at\u00a0the 20th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference in Hospitality and Tourism. In this paper, \u00a0based on the location data of more than 1 million US restaurants stored in a comprehensive geographical information system (GIS) database, several econometric models are proposed to recognize various determinants of restaurant location at a zip-code level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                      A\u00a0paper co-authored by Dr. Yang Yang and MTHM student Jing-huei Huang, entitled\u00a0\u201cNeighborhood Characteristics and Restaurant Location in the United …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4944,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publication"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/files\/2014\/11\/tn.png","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":733,"url":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/yangyang\/2025\/04\/12\/tosok-best-paper-award\/","url_meta":{"origin":166,"position":0},"title":"PhD Student Kevin Hwang Honored with TOSOK Best Paper Award at THEREPS 2025 Conference","author":"Yang Yang","date":"April 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Congratulations to Kevin Hwang, PhD student, on receiving the TOSOK Best Paper Award at the THEREPS 2025 Conference. 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