Products (Restaurant Menus) #

The product of a restaurant is the overall meal experience, which includes atmosphere, interactions with servers and other customers, and the meal itself. The restaurant menu shows the variety of possible meals, providing key data for comparing restaurant competitors.

Building on the restaurant case study, we study menus from restaurants in Madison, Wisconsin. These restaurants included independent restaurants and a number of chains.

A restaurant menu comprises many items, entrees, or meals. We can use methods of data science to produce a concise visualization of all restaurant menus under investigation.

Close competitors of Dave’s Hot Chicken are identified by their proximity to the point identified with Dave’s Hot Chicken. These close competitors are restaurants with many chicken items on their menus.

Madison, Wisconsin restaurants in the list below are ranked in terms of their closeness or similarity to Dave’s.

Click on restaurant names to learn about their menus: #