Culinary taste: consumer behaviour in the international restaurant sector
Sloan, Donald-edUnknown
Routledge (New York, 2016) (eng) English0750657677, 9781138151598Hospitality, leisure and tourism seriesUnknownRESTAURANTS MANAGEMENT; First published 2004 by Butterworth_Heinemann; Culinary Taste: Consumer Behaviour in the International Restaurant Sector looks at the factors that influence our culinary tastes and dining behaviour, illustrating how they can translate into successful business in industry. With a foreword from Prue Leith, restaurateur, author, teacher, and prolific cookery writer and novelist, and a list of well-known and respected international contributors from the UK, France, Australia and Hong Kong, this text discusses the issues involved from a multitude of angles. * Provides wide-ranging insight into the nature of culinary taste as expressed in commercial restaurant settings * Evaluates the influence on culinary taste of a variety of factors such as: social class, gender, health awareness, marketing and geography * Considers the importance of understanding these issues for business management and for success in the hospitality industry today.
Physical dimension
xvii, 189 p.23 cm.Unknown
Summary / review / table of contents
Foreword (Leith) --
Introduction (Sloan) --
The social construction of taste / Diane Seymour --
The postmodern palate: dining out in the individualized era / Donald Sloan --
Taste and space: eating out in the city today / David Bell --
Chic cuisine: the impact of fashion on food / Joanne Finkelstein --
The shock of the new: a sociology of nouvelle cuisine / Roy C. Wood --
Contemporary lifestyles: the case of wine / Marion Demossier --
Shaping culinary taste: the influence of commercial operators (we are what we eat, or what we are persuaded to ear?) / Maureen Brookes --
Gender and culinary taste / Roy C. Wood --
Developing a taste for health / David FouilleĢ --
My most memorable meal ever! Hospitality as an emotional experience / Conrad Lashley, Alison Morrison and Sandie Randall.