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The Economics of Restaurant Weeks

Forbes wonders, with "specials being underpriced and oversold, and restaurants ending up in the soup," are restaurant weeks worth it? Maybe, maybe not, but it's certainly worth it for cities. A rep for Philadelphia's City Center District tells them their restaurant week has "pumped over $90.7 million into Center City Philadelphia’s economy" since 2003. [Forbes]