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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 16.
Published in final edited form as: WMJ. 2016 Nov;115(5):251–258.

Table 2.

Nutrition Environment Measures Survey for Restaurants (NEMS-R) Scores and Subscores by Type of Restaurant (N=1083)a

Mean (SD)

All Restaurants (N = 1083)b Sit-Down Restaurants (N = 435) Fast-Casual Restaurants (N = 119) Fast-Food Restaurants (N = 347) Other Restaurants (N = 167) F (p)c Multiple Comparisons (p)d
Total (0-90)e 32.5 (10.2) 31.1 (7.8) 33.9 (8.7) 35.7 (13.5) 28.4 (6.0) 25.8 (<.001) Sit-down<Fast-casual (.030)
Sit-down<FF (<.001)
Fast-casual<Fast-food (.020)
Other<Fast-casual (<.001)
Other<Fast-food (<.001)
Nutrition information (0-12) 1.5 (2.8) 0.6 (1.7) 1.1 (2.0) 3.4 (3.5) 0.1 (0.8) 114.4 (<.001) Sit-down<Fast-food (<.001)
Fast-casual<Fast-food (<.001)
Other<Fast-casual (.003)
Other<Fast-food (<.001)
Signage identifying healthy options (0-18) 8.5 (2.2) 8.3 (1.7) 8.8 (2.3) 8.6 (2.8) 8.5 (1.6) 2.3 (0.08) Not applicable
Healthier snacks/drinks (0-12) 3.4 (3.3) 3.5 (2.8) 4.2 (3.9) 3.1 (3.9) 3.2 (2.5) 4.2 (0.006) Fast-food <Fast-casual (.006)
Other<Fast-casual (.042)
Healthy menu options (0-18) 6.2 (3.5) 6.4 (3.1) 6.2 (3.2) 6.8 (4.1) 4.5 (2.6) 17.2 (<.001) Other<Sit-down (<.001)
Other<Fast-casual (<.001)
Fast-food<Other (<.001)
Facilitators of healthy eating (0-9) 1.0 (1.7) 1.0 (2.0) 1.1 (1.6) 1.3 (1.8) 0.3 (0.9) 12.4 (<.001) Other<Sit-down (<.001)
Other<Fast-casual (.001)
Fast-food<Other (<.001)
Barriers to healthy eating (reversed, 0-9) 8.1 (1.6) 7.9 (1.8) 8.5 (1.20) 8.1 (1.6) 8.4 (1.3) 8.3 (<.001) Sit-down<Fast-casual (.001)
Sit-down<Other (<.001)
Price incentives for unhealthy eating (reversed, 0-12) 4.0 (1.8) 3.5 (1.7) 4.2 (1.7) 4.7 (1.9) 3.4 (1.2) 37.4 (<.001) Sit-down<Fast-casual (.001)
Sit-down<Fast-food (<.001)
Fast-casual<Fast-food (.038)
Other<Fast-casual (<.001)
Other<Fast-food) (<.001)
Children’s Menu (0-30)f 10.8 (5.8) 10.3 (4.8) 12.3 (5.7) 11.4 (6.9) 8.8 (4.7) 3.8 (.010) Other<Fast-casual (.030)

Abbreviations: NEMS-R, Nutrition Environment Measures Survey for Restaurants.

a

Range of scores possible is described within parentheses. Higher scores represent environment more conducive to healthy eating.

b

”All restaurants” also includes restaurants that could not be classified into a specific type due to missing data. These are not shown in the table.

c

Based on unadjusted analyses of variance (ANOVA) using type of restaurant as the independent variable and NEMS-R scores as the dependent variables.

d

Based on post hoc multiple pairwise comparisons using the Bonferroni correction method. The symbol < indicates the direction of significant differences in NEMS-R scores found between specific types of restaurants.

e

NEMS-R Total Score is the sum of other NEMS-R dimensions except the Children’s Menu score.

f

Only calculated for restaurants with a separate Children’s Menu.