Lampe: Home restaurant businesses are growing throughout the country thanks to social media

Thousands of unlicensed restaurateurs have sprung up throughout the country and have found success selling their home cooking through an unexpected platform: Facebook Marketplace.

University of Michigan School of Information professor Cliff Lampe, an expert on social media, says “selling food is part of a newer trend.” 

“It’s not something that you saw on Marketplace five years ago.”

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Read “A Bazaar of Tamales, Arroz con Gandules and Fufu — on Facebook Marketplace” at the New York Times. 

Learn more about Cliff Lampe by visiting his UMSI faculty profile.