Mobile Tablet Menus: Attractiveness and Impact of Nutrition Labeling Formats on Millennials’ Food Choices

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 58-67

  Yepes, Maryam F ^a  

^a Ecole Hoteliere Lausanne   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

calories; food choice; menu nutrition labeling; mobile tablet technology; traffic light color system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920517852     PISSN: 19389655     EISSN: 19389663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1938965514546371     Document Type: Article

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