Energy Content of U.S. Fast-Food Restaurant Offerings

Temporal Trends in Fast-Food Restaurant Energy, Sodium, Saturated Fat, and Trans Fat Content, United States, 1996–2013

INTRODUCTION Excess intakes of energy, sodium, saturated fat, and trans fat are associated with increased risk for cardiometabolic syndrome. Trends in fast-food restaurant portion sizes can inform policy decisions. We examined the variability of popular food items in 3 fast-food restaurants in the United States by portion size during the past 18 years. METHODS Items from 3 national fast-food ...

Design of a Fast-food Restaurant System Using Statemate Tool

Data Mining for Predicting Customer Satisfaction in Fast-food Restaurant

Managing customer satisfaction has become a crucial issue in fast-food industry. This study aims at identifying determinant factor related to customer satisfaction in fast-food restaurant. Customer data are analyzed by using data mining method with two classification techniques such as decision tree and neural network. Classification models are developed using decision tree and neural network t...

Calorie Labeling, Fast Food Purchasing and Restaurant Visits

OBJECTIVE Obesity is a pressing public health problem without proven population-wide solutions. Researchers sought to determine whether a city-mandated policy requiring calorie labeling at fast food restaurants was associated with consumer awareness of labels, calories purchased and fast food restaurant visits. DESIGN AND METHODS Difference-in-differences design, with data collected from cons...

A voice activated dialogue system for fast-food restaurant applications

We present a preliminary version of a voice dialogue system suitable to deal with client orders and questions in fast-food restaurants. The system consists of two main sub-systems, namely a dialogue sub-system and a voice interface. The dialogue sub-system is a natural language processing system that may be considered a rule-based expert system, whose behaviour is decided from a recorded dialog...