The Influence of City Size on Dietary Choices and Food Recommendation

Abstract

Contextual features have been leveraged by recommender systems in many different domains. Traditional contextual features -- such as location and time -- have successfully been combined with collaborative filtering or content-based features. However, it is likely that there are other -- domain-specific -- features that may have even more impact. In this paper, we focus on the influence of city size on food preferences. Apart from location and time, our results show that city size can significantly boost the performance of food recommendation.