Purchasing food away from home : demand patterns for fast food and full-service / Rebecca Evans, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Rebecca, editor.

Series:

Nutrition and diet research progress series.

Nutrition and Diet Research Progress

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fast food restaurants--United States--Statistics.

Fast food restaurants.

Convenience foods--United States--Statistics.

Convenience foods.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (117 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Publishers, 2015.

Summary:

Food away from home (FAFH) is an important part of a typical American's diet and continues to increase as a share of the food budget. Rising consumption of a particular kind of FAFH--fast food--has been blamed for American's expanding waistlines and poor diet quality. The study examined in this book uses data from the 2003-11 American Time Use Survey to examine the effects of time-use behaviors, prices, sociodemographic characteristics, labor force participation, and prices on fast-food purchasing patterns in the United States before and after the Great Recession. Because fast food accounts for a large share of U.S. food expenditures and calorie consumption, a better understanding of the motivation behind trends in fast-food purchasing behaviors may help inform policies designed to improve the diet quality of Americans. This research complements previous studies that used food expenditure and food intake data (but not time-use data) to analyze the effects of demographic characteristics, prices, and income on fast-food purchases and consumption. In addition, this book discusses consumer spending at full-service and fast food restaurants, and the affect this has on the foodservice industry.

Contents:

PURCHASING FOOD AWAY FROM HOME DEMAND PATTERNS FOR FAST FOOD AND FULL-SERVICE ; PURCHASING FOOD AWAY FROM HOME DEMAND PATTERNS FOR FAST FOOD AND FULL-SERVICE ; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; Chapter 1 THE ROLE OF TIME IN FAST-FOOD PURCHASING BEHAVIOR IN THE UNITED STATES* ; ABSTRACT ; WHAT IS THE ISSUE? ; WHAT DID THE STUDY FIND? ; Effects of Employment ; Effects of Household Characteristics ; Effects of the Great Recession and Time Spent Eating out ; HOW WAS THE STUDY CONDUCTED? ; INTRODUCTION

RELEVANT LITERATURE ON DETERMINANTS OF FAFH DEMANDDATA AND DEFINITIONS ; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS ; Differences Among Gender, Employment Status, and Fast-Food Purchasing Groups ; CHANGES BEFORE AND AFTER THE BUSINESS CYCLE PEAK ; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS ; Analysis of the Entire Sample Period, 2003-11 ; Models by Household Type ; Analysis of Pre- and Post-Business Cycle Peak ; DISCUSSION ; REFERENCES ; Web sites ; APPENDIX-DATA DEFINITIONS AND LIMITATIONS ; End Notes ; Chapter 2 THE DEMAND FOR FOOD AWAY FROM HOME: FULL SERVICE OR FAST FOOD?; ABSTRACT ; SUMMARY ; INTRODUCTION

DETERMINANTS OF CONSUMER DEMAND EFFECT OF HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS ON DEMAND ; Changing Structure of Households ; CHANGING STRUCTURE OF AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDS ; Data Used in the Analysis; STATISTICAL MODEL OF AWAY-FROM-HOME EXPENDITURES ; The Statistical Model; Definition of Variables ; Results of Model Estimation ; SIMULATING FUTURE AWAY-FROM-HOME EXPENDITURES ; Future Spending at Full-Service Restaurants ; Future Spending on Fast Food; IMPLICATIONS FOR MARKET COMPOSITION ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; APPENDIX ; REFERENCES ; End Notes ; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 29, 2016).

ISBN:

1-63483-729-0