This paper proposes a new generalization of the Voronoi diagram. Suppose that restaurants and bookstores are located in a city, and we want to visit both a restaurant and bookstore and return to our house. To each pair of a restaurant and a bookstore, we can assign a region such that a resident in this region can visit the restaurant and bookstore in a round tour that is shorter than that for a...

The objective of this study was to investigate the attitudes of restaurant managers, employees and customers towards a total smoking ban policy in restaurants. A restaurant based survey in an urban area of Kunming City, China, was carried out from May to August 2009. One hundred managers, 1,055 employees and 5,213 customers aged 15 years or above were interviewed using a structured questionnair...

This paper designs the model of bibimbap restaurant recommendation system in BigData(collected from Twitter's data related to bibimbap). We suggests a TCA (Termite Colony Algorithm) k-means algorithm for clustering BigData, TCA algorithm that used the habits of termites. Through the TCA, finding the appropriate initial clustering needed for the K-means clusters is the goal. We recommend good Bi...

Asians and Hispanics are perceived by many restaurant servers as poor tippers. This study tests the validity of those perceptions using data from a large restaurant chain’s online customer satisfaction survey. Findings partially support servers’ perceptions – Hispanics but not Asians tipped less on average than Whites after controlling for bill size, the customer’s own ratings of service qualit...

we conducted environmental and laboratory investigations to elucidate the cause. Setting.\p=m-\Tourists traveling by bus through Alaska and the Yukon Territory of Canada. Participants.\p=m-\Staff of a restaurant at a business complex implicated as the outbreak source, convenience sample of persons on buses that had stopped there, and bus employees. Main Outcome Measures.\p=m-\Odds ratios (ORs) ...

The Restaurant Game demonstrates an end-to-end system that captures and generates social behavior for virtual agents. Over 15,000 people have played The Restaurant Game, and we have developed a system to automatically learn patterns of interaction and dialogue from logs of their gameplay sessions. These patterns guide a case-based planning system, which generates behavior and dialogue for a vir...

The Restaurant Game is part of a project to develop an AI system that can play a video game with a human or another AI just by using annotated recordings of humans playing the game as examples. The Restaurant Game is a simple two-player restaurant simulation in which character are instructed to act out a typical interaction between a customer and a waitress. We have collected about 10,000 recor...

Restaurant foods can be a substantial source of sodium in the American diet. According to the Institute of Medicine, the significant contribution made by restaurants and food service menu items to Americans' sodium intake warrants targeted attention. Public health practitioners are uniquely poised to support sodium-reduction efforts in restaurants and help drive demand for lower-sodium products...

We consider a yield-management approach to determine whether a restaurant should accept or reject a pending reservation request. This approach was examined by Bossert (2009), where the decision for each request is evaluated by an approximate dynamic program (ADP) that bases its decision on a realization of future demand. This model only considers assigning requests to their desired time slot. W...

Hostesses and restaurant employees in the Philippines were studied to determine whether an increased use of antibiotics was associated with a higher point prevalence of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. Of 1,030 hostesses and 628 restaurant employees, 28 and 4%, respectively, said that they had taken antibiotics within a week of being cultured (P less than 0.001). Of hostesses and restaurant em...