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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Fast-food Restaurant"”.
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Negotiation and autonomy in a fast food restaurant
… lived experience of workers in two franchised fast food restaurants. Drawing primarily on the work of Anselm Strauss (1978) and D. H. J. Morgan (1975), I have examined data taken from auto-ethnographic and overt observation. I found that workers in different negotiation contexts would use …
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Customer satisfaction amongst black customers in the fast food restaurant industry
… (Stevens, Knuston, and Patton, 1995), in a fast food restaurant and explore the differences in perceived service quality for customers. The study focused on black consumers as they are the majority race group in South Africa and also considered an important client group to many fast food …
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Computer Modeling and Simulation of Ground Beef and Lettuce Handling for Hamburgers at a Typical Fast-Food Restaurant.
… O157:H7 outbreaks have been associated with fast food restaurants. This research created a computer model and simulation with the Micrografx computer software program Process™ for the safe handling of ground beef patties and lettuce in a typical fast food restaurant.</p><p>A reference …
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Promoting one low-fat, high-fiber choice in a fast-food restaurant: use of point-of-purchase prompts
… low-fat, high-fiber choice in a national chain fast-food restaurant. It is an extension of efforts toward large-scale dietary change. A procedural extension of a prompting strategy was used in an attempt to influence customers to choose a salad. A simple visual and print message based on themes …
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Increasing children's safety belt use: intrinsic versus extrinsic motivators
… and after the interventions. Coupons for free food at a fast food restaurant were distributed to participants by the school personnel, and safety belt use was observed at the restaurant's drive-thru window to assess generalization. The results revealed that participants from all three reward …
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Creating Standards Compliant Biodiesel Production Capability Using Waste Peanut Oil at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
… using waste peanut oil from a Chick-Fil-A fast food restaurant on campus. Past research and biodiesel production from the previous two years on campus was taken into consideration and a catalyst change was proposed. Sample test batches were conducted to create a viable biodiesel and a …
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The impact of assured supply inventory policies
… study is presented of a successful quick serve fast food restaurant chain that uses inventory throughout the supply chain as a buffer against uncertainty in supply and demand. This is a common operational strategy in many industries, but it limits options for the supply chain to become more …
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Traipsing the old stomping grounds: the first three stories of a novel-in-stories with a craft essay
… Oklahoma during the 1980s, where Mackie's, a fast food restaurant, and the people who work there become the center of her life. My craft essay explores the methods of imposing plot on life through the lens of Robin Hemley’s Turning Life into Fiction, and discusses how the craft elements of …
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Paintings and Palaces, or the Lament of the Burger Flipper
… of Burger Palace, a baritone; the Suits 1/Fast Food Workers, a choir (SATB) and the Suits 2/Customers, a second choir (SATB), each ideally consisting of eight vocalists for a total of sixteen; the Daydream Figures, which are mimed parts; the Man with Gun, which is a spoken part. The opera, …
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Dining habits and preferences of young patrons of fast food restaurants in Singapore and Las Vegas, 1994
… and expectations of 1,012 young patrons of fast food restaurants in Singapore and Las Vegas. The Singapore respondents were students from a Pre-university and SHATEC, a hospitality industry vocational institute. In Las Vegas, the respondents were from the William F. Harrah College of Hotel …
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RESTAURANT FOOD WASTE MANAGEMENT USING MICROWAVE PLASMA GASIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
… an on-site solution for the treatment of restaurant waste using a microwave generated plasma for pyrolysis and gasification. The developed system has been used to treat waste from a city centre fast food restaurant. The system was designed with the aim of reducing the amount of waste being …
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The Multilevel, Multicultural, and Multi-Temporal Ecosocial Framework of Population Health : How Neighborhoods, Culture, and History Impact Health Outcomes and Produce Health Disparities
… (church attendance), and neighborhood factors (fast food restaurant availability) were statistically significant predictors of diabetes. Having perceptions of serious neighborhood problems were statistically significant predictors of hypercholesterolemia. In the cross-sectional analysis of …
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Local food availability, diet and obesity: Development and empirical testing of a complex theory
… range of chronic diseases. Aspects of the local food environment, including food availability, have been linked to less healthy diets and increased body weight in adults. However, there is limited theory development to guide the synthesis of empirical studies or the design and evaluation of …
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Exploring fast food consumption behaviours and social influence.
… increase in the consumption of convenience-style foods. This change has occurred concurrently with a global rise in obesity rates which has led to some researchers blaming the increased consumption of ‘big brand’ fast foods (such as McDonald’s) for expanding waistlines. Nutritional profiling in …
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Association between the Fast-Food Environment and Obesity in Canada: A Cross-sectional Analysis
Frequent fast-food consumption is associated with weight gain therefore it is hypothesized that relative availability of fast-food is a risk factor for obesity. This thesis examined the association between the neighbourhood-level density of fast-food outlets and adult body mass index (BMI) in …
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The epidemiology of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDS) and NCD risk factors in adolescents & youth living with HIV in Cape Town, South Africa
… education, employment or training; 70% lived in food-insecure households, and 44% were multidimensionally poor. At the individual level, a high prevalence of NCDs was found, particularly elevated blood pressure and hypertension (20% and 5% respectively), overweight/obesity (36%), central obesity …