This research examines the larger-scale associations between obesity and food environments in metropolitan areas in the United States (US). The US Census County Business Patterns dataset for 2011 was used to construct various indices of food environments for selected metropolitan areas. The numbers of employees engaged in supermarkets, convenience stores, full service restaurants, fast food res...

OBJECTIVE Asian American immigrants experience high rates of cigarette smoking. A community based survey was conducted to understand the smoking behaviours, knowledge, and attitudes of restaurant workers in Boston's Chinatown. DESIGN Cross sectional survey in Chinese of a convenience sample of 54 restaurant workers recruited through extensive outreach activities. RESULTS All 54 of the worke...

SoLoMo marketing is emerging as a new marketing campaign to approach to the target consumers and would be widely used to increase consumers’ campaign response. Due to the operational differences in consumer behavior between traditional marketing and mobile marketing, the influences of SoLoMo marketing for retailers and what factors influencing the response of SoLoMo are worthy of study. This st...

Eggs are frequently implicated as a source of foodborne salmonellosis. In February 2009 an investigation was commenced following reports of gastrointestinal illness among diners at a Canberra restaurant. The investigation sought to confirm the existence of an outbreak, identify a source and implement public health measures to prevent more cases. Menus and booking lists were obtained from the re...

In a social network, agents are intelligent and have the capability to make decisions to maximize their utilities. They can either make wise decisions by taking advantages of other agents’ experiences through learning, or make decisions earlier to avoid competitions from huge crowds. Both these two effects, social learning and negative network externality, play important roles in the decision p...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of fast-food and full-service restaurant consumption on adults' energy intake and dietary indicators. DESIGN Individual-level fixed-effects regression model estimation based on two different days of dietary intake data was used. SETTING Parallel to the rising obesity epidemic in the USA, there has been a marked upward trend in total energy intake derived from...

BACKGROUND Although approximately 82 percent of the US population was covered by some form of law that restricted smoking in public establishments as of 2014, most research examining the relationship between smoke-free laws and health has been focused at the state level. PURPOSE To examine the effect of county workplace smoke-free laws over and above the effect of other (restaurant or bar) sm...

Background. Although approximately 82 percent of the US population was covered by some form of law that restricted smoking in public establishments as of 2014, most research examining the relationship between smoke-free laws and health has been focused at the state level. Purpose. To examine the effect of county workplace smoke-free laws over and above the effect of other (restaurant or bar) sm...

Across the nation, food service establishments using onsite wastewater treatment systems often experience pretreatment system and/or drain field performance problems. This study used statistical analysis of restaurant management practice and primary cuisine type to observe their influence on five-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5), total fats, oils, and greases (FOG), total suspended solids (...

This paper focuses on the staff shift scheduling problem on luxury hotel restaurant. Effective staff scheduling has always been a concern for restaurant managers. This paper addresses this issue by investigating the nature of restaurant jobs, ultimately proposing a Shift Scheduling Model designed to level workloads of employees in restaurant service at these establishments. This model creates s...