Restaurants are important settings for foodborne disease transmission. The Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-Net) was established to identify underlying factors contributing to disease outbreaks and to translate those findings into improved prevention efforts. From June 2002 through June 2003, EHS-Net conducted systematic environmental evaluations in 22 restaurants in which outbreak...

Factors influencing behavioural intention to patronise restaurants using iPad as a menu card Hsiu-Yuan Wang & Sung-Yeh Wu To cite this article: Hsiu-Yuan Wang & Sung-Yeh Wu (2014) Factors influencing behavioural intention to patronise restaurants using iPad as a menu card, Behaviour & Information Technology, 33:4, 395-409, DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2013.810776 To link to this article: http://dx.doi...

Food is the primary vehicle of transmission for traveler's diarrhea. We evaluated coliform contamination of vegetables from popular restaurants in Guadalajara, Mexico, and Houston, Texas. Contamination of vegetables in Guadalajara restaurants was widespread. Prevention of traveler's diarrhea by avoidance of "high-risk" foods may be unsuccessful, because contamination of foods may occur regardle...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that neighborhood factors are associated with obesity, but few studies have evaluated the association with weight control behaviors. This study aims to conduct a multi-level analysis to examine the relationship between neighborhood SES and weight-related health behaviors. METHODS In this ancillary study to Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) a tri...

Fast food has increasingly become popular in Bangladesh with the effect of globalization. Many people, specifically the younger generation are consuming various types of fast foods everyday as these are convenient, time saving and tasty. Consumers’ choice of a particular restaurant depends on many factors, i.e. quality, variation, location, price, environment, and many more aspects. Thus the co...

Restaurants are associated with a significant number of foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States. Certification of kitchen managers through an accredited training and testing program may help improve food safety practices and thus prevent foodborne illness. In this study, relationships between the results of routine restaurant inspections and the presence of a certified kitchen manager ...

In a field experiment, we demonstrate that advertising can serve as a signal that enhances consumers’ evaluations of advertised goods. We implement the experiment on a mobile search platform that provides listings and reviews for an archetypal experience good, restaurants. In collaboration with the platform, we randomize about 200,000 users in 13 Asian cities into exposure of ads for about 600+...

BACKGROUND Approximately 32% of US children are overweight or obese. Restaurant and fast food meals contribute 18% of daily calories for children and adolescents aged 2 to 18 years. Changing children's menus may improve their diets. This case study describes Best Food for Families, Infants, and Toddlers (Best Food FITS), a community-based intervention designed to address childhood obesity. The ...

Obesity rates in the United States have been growing rapidly in recent years. Whereas 15 percent of Americans were obese in 1980 (defined as having a body mass index of at least 30), 34 percent were obese in 2004 (Center for Disease Control 2007). The time series of obesity rates in the United States, plotted in Figure 1 (solid line), reveals that the rate of increase over the past quarter-cent...

In recent years, multiple outbreaks of Salmonella infection have been associated with fresh tomatoes. Investigations have indicated that tomato contamination likely occurred early in the farm-to-consumer chain, although tomato consumption occurred mostly in restaurants. Researchers have hypothesized that tomato handling practices in restaurants may contribute to these outbreaks. However, few em...