Understanding mature customers in the restaurant business: Inferences from a Nationwide Survey

Quick Service Restaurants, Franchising, and Multi-Unit Chain Management

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 81-98

  Seo, WonSeok ^a   Wildes, Vivienne J ^a   DeMicco, Fred J ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mature customers; Newspapers; Restaurant; Service

Indexed keywords

EID: 30744457901     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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