How often do you hang out with people in a different socioeconomic bracket than you? And where do you meet and congregate? Economist Maxim Massenkoff, and his…
Research from MIT Sloan finds that casual chain restaurants like Applebee’s and Chili’s are the best places to meet and socialize with people from different income classes.
Full-service, sit-down restaurant chains with their expansive menus, reasonable prices and vinyl-booth seating were among the few places where people from high-income neighborhoods came in contact with those from low-income neighborhoods, researchers say.