Food safety is an important public health issue in the U.S. Eating at restaurants and other food service facilities increasingly has been associated with food borne disease outbreaks. Food safety training and certification of food mangers has been used as a method for reducing food safety violations at food service facilities. However, the literature is inconclusive about the effectiveness of s...

Food and housing insecurity may contribute to poorer mental and physical health. It is unclear as to whether those with prior military service, compared to those without, are more vulnerable to these current stressors. The objective of this study was to use U.S. population-based data to determine whether prior military service moderates the association of food and housing insecurity with poor m...

0956-7135/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2010.04.010 * Corresponding author. Address: Dipartimento Università di Palermo, Via Liborio Giuffrè 13, 90127 6553929; fax: +39 91 6553030. E-mail address: [email protected] (A. Casuccio). The aim of this study was to investigate knowledge, attitudes and practices of food service staff in nursing homes and long-term care ...

Prepared meals distributed by municipalities is a service to elderly people, or persons with health related impairments, who live in their own home, have difficulties preparing their own food and cannot meet their food requirements in any other way. This study aimed to provide a brief picture of how elderly people living at home perceive the food they receive through their municipal food servic...

BACKGROUND The food environment has been implicated as an underlying contributor to the global obesity epidemic. However, few studies have evaluated the relationship between the food environment, dietary intake, and overweight/obesity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The aim of this study was to assess the association of full service and fast food restaurant density with dietary int...

The relatively service-driven restaurant industry is becoming more important in generating income for many Asian countries and hence the service performance of the restaurants must be well understood and managed. The key determinants for restaurant service quality need to be identified, especially for the important segment such as youth customers. Therefore, this paper aims to explore the impor...

Social media connects individual users and corporate bodies on a self-service technology (SST) platform. The food beverage industry has increasingly adopted the social media-based SST over other online kiosk types of technologies for their service delivery. present study sheds light dimensionality quality in delivery context went further to investigate impact functional value, user satisfaction...

Many studies examining the food retail environment rely on geographic information system (GIS) databases for location information. The purpose of this study was to validate information provided by two GIS databases, comparing the positional accuracy of food service places within a 1 km circular buffer surrounding 34 schools in Ontario, Canada. A commercial database (InfoCanada) and an online da...

We present and analyze a number of models to support the equitable and effective distribution of donated food by a food bank among the population at risk for hunger. In this environment, supply is donated; demand typically exceeds supply and is proportional to the population in poverty in the service area. Equitable food distribution seeks to provide each individual in the service area with equ...