Taking up space? How customers react to health information and health icons on restaurant menus

Journal of Foodservice Business Research

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 344-363

  Jones, Cathleen S ^a  

^a ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calories; Focus groups; Food; Health icons; Health information; Menu; NVivo; Qualitative research; Restaurant; Sodium

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957244080     PISSN: 15378020     EISSN: 15378039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15378020903344299     Document Type: Article

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