An Actor-Based Middleware for Crowd-Sourced Services
The growing ubiquity and variety of personal connected computational devices – each with a number of sensors – has created the opportunity for a wide range of crowd-sourced services.
Ahmed Abdel Moamen, Nadeem Jamali
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This study explores how a state-based franchisee association of a multinational quick-service restaurant franchisor introduced three world-first innovations through the activation of the five dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation (EO).
Peter Balsarini, Claire Lambert
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Evaluating the Competition Environment between the Global Chain Quick Service Restaurants and the Local Egyptian Quick Service Restaurants in Egypt [PDF]
The world became global village as a result of the globalization in these days. So, the global Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) expanded globally especially in the Arab markets. The global QSRs adapted local traditional products from the host countries to compete with the local Egyptian QSRs.
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Investigating the Effect of VSM on the Performance of Quick-Service Restaurants [PDF]
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a value-based improvement approach that eliminates losses and processing time and maximizes value added time, contributing to enhanced performance effectiveness. In this context, this paper introduces VSM as a different method for restaurant industry and an overall perception for output flow through differentiating wastes,
Emad Abdelaal, Abdallah Elshaer
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Availability of and ease of access to calorie information on restaurant websites. [PDF]
Offering calories on restaurant websites might be particularly important for consumer meal planning, but the availability of and ease of accessing this information are unknown.We assessed websites for the top 100 U.S.
Gary G Bennett +7 more
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Control and Fairness in Customer Service
Using the concept of “role theories”, the notions of fairness, freedom versus control, and psychological reactance this article examines how these human factors interact in quick service restaurant (QSR) encounters.
Odile Streed, Albert Kagan
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How television fast food marketing aimed at children compares with adult advertisements. [PDF]
Quick service restaurant (QSR) television advertisements for children's meals were compared with adult advertisements from the same companies to assess whether self-regulatory pledges for food advertisements to children had been implemented.All ...
Amy M Bernhardt +5 more
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Astudy on the consumer patronage for Quick Service Restaurants
The value of the Indian restaurant market is expected to escalate to Rs. 51,000 crore by 2021.The study lays emphasis on the factors prompting and inducing the consumption of American food from American Food Restaurants (AFR) by the consumers in Bengaluru city apart from providing the necessary recommendations and suggestions to the AFR’s. Primary data
Pooja S. Bhat +2 more
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Sodium, calorie, and sugary drink purchasing patterns in chain restaurants: Findings from NYC
To understand how consumer purchases in chain restaurants relate to nutrients of public health concern, sodium, calories and sugary drinks purchased for personal consumption were assessed through a customer intercept receipt study at a sample of New York
Divya Prasad, MPH +6 more
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Benchmarking the nutrition-related commitments and practices of major Belgian food companies
Background To benchmark and quantitatively assess the transparency, specificity and comprehensiveness of nutrition-related commitments, as well as related practices of the largest Belgian food companies. Methods The ‘Business Impact Assessment on Obesity
Iris Van Dam +2 more
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