Consumer response to nutrition information menu labeling in full-service restaurants: Making the healthy choice®

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages 109-125

  Gallicano, Robert ^a   Blomme, Robert J ^a   Van Rheede, Arjan ^a  

^a The Hotelschool The Hague   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consumer behavior; Full service restaurants; Menu labeling; Nutrition information; Restaurant menus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885619458     PISSN: 17453542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S1745-3542(2012)0000008010     Document Type: Article

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