{"id":5865,"date":"2014-04-29T05:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5865"},"modified":"2014-04-29T05:56:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T11:56:00","slug":"menu-data-startup-food-genius-finds-there-are-no-national-food-trends-only-local-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5865","title":{"rendered":"Menu-data startup Food Genius finds there are no national food trends, only local ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Y7RJd2hysC\">Kevin Fitchard<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There was only one problem. The data they found was not what what they expected to find.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;After aggregating menu data for more than a year, Food Genius wasn\u2019t able to find any big nationwide food or eating trends. No matter what it looked at \u2013 the appearance of kale on the menu, the number of restaurants serving carnitas tacos \u2013 Food Genius was just seeing big flat lines across its graphs. The problem, according CEO and co-founder Justin Massa, was that, averaged out across the country, our eating patterns stayed static or rose and fell only incrementally quarter to quarter, year to year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Fitchard: There was only one problem. The data they found was not what what they expected to find.&nbsp;&nbsp;After aggregating menu data for more than a year, Food Genius wasn\u2019t able to find any big nationwide food or eating trends. No matter what it looked at \u2013 the appearance of kale on the menu, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5866,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions\/5866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}