British Food Journal: Volume 119 Issue 3

The reliability, use and evaluation of sources of information on foodstuffs

Julita Szlachciuk, Irena Ozimek

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how young Polish consumers perceive the selected sources of information on foodstuffs. The authors have also taken into account the…

The role of social media in communication about food risks: Views of journalists, food regulators and the food industry

Julie Henderson, Annabelle M. Wilson, Trevor Webb, Dean McCullum, Samantha B. Meyer, John Coveney, Paul R. Ward

The purpose of this paper is to explore the views of journalists, food regulators and the food industry representatives on the impact of social media on communication about food…

What drives experiential loyalty? A case study of Starbucks coffee chain in Taiwan

Hung-Che Wu

The purpose of this paper is to identify the dimensions of experiential quality and examining the interrelationships among experiential quality, experiential satisfaction…

The influence of time of day on decision fatigue in online food choice experiments

Søren Bøye Olsen, Jürgen Meyerhoff, Morten Raun Mørkbak, Ole Bonnichsen

Fatigue effects related to answering a sequence of choice tasks have received much scrutiny in the stated choice experiments (SCE) literature. However, decision fatigue related to…

Decomposition analysis and consumer research as essential elements of the new food product development process

Michał Halagarda

Due to fast changes in consumer demands and expectations, developing and introducing new products have become a necessity for the food companies in order to survive on the…

Factors affecting Halal meat purchase intention: Evidence from international Muslim students in China

Afzaal Ali, Guo Xiaoling, Mehkar Sherwani, Adnan Ali

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of Halal meat consumption within international Muslim students’ population in China using the theory of planned…

How important is country-of-origin for organic food consumers? A review of the literature and suggestions for future research

John Thøgersen, Susanne Pedersen, Maria Paternoga, Eva Schwendel, Jessica Aschemann-Witzel

The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on the country-of-origin (COO) effect in the context of organic food and develop suggestions for further research in this…

The consumer of food products in organic markets of central Mexico

Sttefanie Yenitza Escobar-López, Angélica Espinoza-Ortega, Ivonne Vizcarra-Bordi, Humberto Thomé-Ortiz

The purpose of this paper is to identify the characteristics of consumers of organic food, based on their motivations.

Eliciting consumer preferences for credence attributes in a fine-dining restaurant

Alexander Schjøll, Frode Alfnes

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate and discuss methodology issues in menu-labelling experiments in commercial full-service restaurants, and to investigate how the menu…

Improving the customer experience through consistency and effective service delivery in the United Kingdom public house sector

David Andrews, Simon Turner

The purpose of this paper is to ask if customer experiences in public houses (pubs) go wrong because of poor initial and subsequent training for front-line staff, while…

Material flow cost accounting for food waste in the restaurant industry

Katherine Leanne Christ, Roger Burritt

The purpose of this paper is to examine how a new tool, material flow cost accounting (MFCA), can effectively support and be used to improve food waste management in the…

Marketing and financial barriers in agri-food exporting

Tomislav Sudarevic, Predrag Radojevic, Darko Marjanovic, Radovan Dragas

The purpose of this paper is to empirically research marketing and financial export barriers by perceptions of agri-food firms from small developing country with preferential…

Performance and access to finance in Indonesian horticulture

Eliana Wulandari, Miranda P.M. Meuwissen, Maman H. Karmana, Alfons G.J.M. Oude Lansink

Access to finance is an important condition for the development of agriculture and the farms’ performance. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the association between the…

Have you chosen your request? Analysis of online food delivery companies in Brazil

Gessuir Pigatto, Joao Guilherme de Camargo Ferraz Machado, Amanda dos Santos Negreti, Lucas Miranda Machado

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the performance of online food delivery companies in Brazil and to analyze the content of the websites of these companies with a view…

Comparing UK food retailers corporate social responsibility strategies

Diogo Souza-Monteiro, Neal Hooker

The purpose of this paper is to examine how socio-economic and institutional factors impact UK food retailers’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies as revealed in…

Multi-criteria optimization for a cost-effective design of an RFID-based meat supply chain

Ahmed Mohammed, Qian Wang

In this paper, the authors investigated a proposed radio-frequency identification (RFID)-based meat supply chain to monitor quality and safety of meat products we purchase from…

Developing a meat supply chain network design using a multi-objective possibilistic programming approach

Ahmed Mohammed, Qian Wang

The purpose of this paper is to present a study in developing a cost-effective meat supply chain network design aiming to minimizing the total cost of transportation, the number…