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cuisine types served by each restaurant is visualized in Figure 5. The keywords from <br />each restaurant's description were collected and plotted to show the frequencies of the <br />food served as well as the primary cuisine type offered in these restaurants. This data <br />provides another key information about the regional competition. We found most <br />restaurants in the region are fast food places that serves pizza, sandwiches and <br />burgers. They are followed by major cuisine types such as Traditional American, <br />Chinese and Mexican. This piece of data suggests a lack of full -service options in and <br />surround Ramsey. It also provides guidance for Ramsey when developing themes of <br />the restaurant incubator. We recommend Ramsey to focus on encouraging novel <br />cuisines that will stand out from the fast food dominated local competition and to avoid <br />direct competition with majority of the current restaurants. It is conceivable that if <br />Ramsey can successfully develop the restaurant incubator to avoid cuisines types <br />overrepresented in the region, it can attract customers from these existing restaurant <br />nodes to Ramsey. <br />8 <br />