This research is focused to find what are the key success factors for fast food industry in region of Peshawar Pakistan. Fast food concepts developed very rapidly in last few years in Peshawar region. The failure or success of a fast food industry based on some factors like Promotion, Service quality, Customer expectations, Brand, Physical Environment, Price, and Taste of the product. To find w...

The burgeoning development and the rapid growth of the chain restaurants in the Macau fast food industry have attracted much interest in understanding the success of this market. The purpose of this study is to examine service quality in the fast food industry by developing a conceptual framework and measurement scale. Through using a multi-dimensional and hierarchical model as a framework in t...

Humans are the only animals to cook their food before eating it. Some evidence indicates that cooked food allowed the human brain and body to develop amazing complexities due to increased access to varieties of food and time. Others believe that the humans who cooked their first meal 40,000 years ago took a step towards a long fall from grace that eventually led to fast food, heart disease, and...

INTRODUCTION Today, people commonly use applications that allow them to search for the best restaurants (Yelp), hotels (TripAdvisor), plane tickets (Expedia), and merchandise (Amazon). These applications, although extremely useful for narrowing down a large list of data to a few selections that meet certain user-specified criteria, are not very good at providing a general overview or aggregatio...

INTRODUCTION Qualitative research on food choice has rarely focused on individuals' perceptions of the community food environment. Women remain gatekeepers of the family diet and food purchasing. Therefore we assessed midlife, Southern women's perceptions of the food environment. Related influences on food choices at work and at home were also examined. METHODS We recruited 28 low- and modera...

prevention of harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol, and ultra-processed food and drink industries. Lancet 2013;381:670–79. 3. Sackett DL. Evidence-based medicine. In: Encyclopedia of Biostatistics. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2005. 4. Birbeck G, Wiysonge CS, Mills EJ, Frenk JJ, Zhou XN, Jha P. Global health: the importance of evidence-based medicine. BMC Med 2013;11:223. 5. Greenhalgh T, Howick J, Maskr...

OBJECTIVE To assess time trends in the contribution of processed foods to food purchases made by Brazilian households and to explore the potential impact on the overall quality of the diet. DESIGN Application of a new classification of foodstuffs based on extent and purpose of food processing to data collected by comparable probabilistic household budget surveys. The classification assigns fo...

Disparities in access to healthy foods have been identified particularly in the United States. Fewer studies have measured the effects these disparities have on diet-related health outcomes. This study measured the association between the presence of food establishments and obesity among 1295 adults living in the southern region of the United States. The prevalence of obesity was lower in areas...

This population-based study examined whether residential or school neighborhood access to fast food restaurants is related to adolescents' eating frequency of fast food. A classroom-based survey of racially/ethnically diverse adolescents (n=2724) in 20 secondary schools in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota was used to assess eating frequency at five types of fast food restaurants. Black, Hispanic...

OBJECTIVE To examine the trends in food advertising seen by American children and adolescents. DESIGN Trend analysis of children's and adolescents' exposure to food advertising in 2003, 2005, and 2007, including separate analyses by race. PARTICIPANTS Children aged 2 to 5 years and 6 to 11 years and adolescents aged 12 to 17 years. MAIN EXPOSURE Television ratings. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES...