Essay on Restaurant Research

This paper looks to define and explore three books which are a crux to various food histories which in the last decade has become a scholarly journey as food history is becoming increasingly studied as a scholarly endeavor by historians where previously it was not seen in such a scholarly light. The three texts which are going to be examined are: Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food by Jeffery M. Pilcher, The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture by Rebecca L. Spang, and lastly To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South by Angela Jill Cooley. Each of these books seek to redefine how people see their perspective topics whether it be Mexican identity rooted in cuisine, the evolution of southern food in a racially divided south, or even the concept of the restaurant emerging from a revolutionary culture. These texts bring awareness to various topics which have both social, cultural, and economic stigmas associated with them.

Fast food is very popular amongst today’s society. Fast Food Nation has reasons for the explosion in popularity of fast food restaurants in the mid-1900’s. It also explains negative effects on American Culture in today’s society. The fast-food industry has multiplied across America and changed the food industry. Eric Schlosser describes in Fast Food Nation the way people think about what they eat and what people think of the fast food industry, and also its impact on society.

My most favorite of all time restaurants to dine at is The Cheesecake Factory. This restaurant is a famous corporate chain of restaurants that offers a widespread variety of all types of American dishes and of course specializes in the most amazing variety of the best tasting cheesecakes. I love the experience of dining at the Cheesecake factory because the atmosphere is so welcoming and the artwork on the ceilings make you feel very lavish, the food is great and the service is excellent. A particular visit last month proved to me that Cheesecake factory lives up to the expectations of its guests.

Renae Smith, MasterChef Australia finalist and a local resident of Sydney, takes MasterChef Kunal Kapur on a culinary trail of the city and suggests some of the finest culinary experiences that must be explored.

economy, in an industry that’s making billions of dollars in record profits; and they’re stealing from the lowest income workers in this country. Is that right?!”. It is true- workers of these restaurants do not even make nearly enough to survive and are victims of wage theft while corporate workers make millions more a year, caring less about what is happening to the workers below them.

Starr took a city that has “slammed its doors and barred its windows at 5p.m.” and elevated it to one that is described as “bubbling over with vitality and life. “ (Starr) Like Fry, Starr is “relentlessly restless” in trying to incorporate his new neighborhoods with new restaurants like the “Momofuku-style restaurant. “ (Starr) The thing about Starr is that even though the success he is having is almost a “mathematical impossibility”, his strategy of building up is driving in this newest creation of restaurants that “Philly didn’t have, that it needed.

April 10, 2013 I seated myself in a booth with my back faced to the wall. It was here that I had an ominous view of the Galleria food court. With pencil in hand, and notebook ready, I began taking notes on the many observations I noticed in the three hour window that I sat and “people watched”.

I decided to conduct my field observation in the great state of Louisiana. I had a business trip to the party capital of the world, New Orleans. The bar scene was the perfect setting to observe a diverse group of people for a long period of time without bringing attention or suspicion to myself.

The 1990's rise of the family style Italian restaurant, which served portions by the bucketful, called for huge groups, replicating a nostalgic image of big, boisterous Italian families. With one wave of a garlic-bread wand, these restaurants offered a vision of the past through a red-and white-checked lens. Now I enjoy garlic-drenched linguine with clam sauce and platters of sausages and peppers as much as the next person, but I find it hard to eat surrounded by portraits of imaginary ancestors with the theme from “The Godfather” playing again and

What are factors influence to customer purchase behavioral? How is good management system impact to employee performance delivery high quality service?

Mongols BBQ is a restaurant that provides Oriental cuisine in Los Angeles, California. The restaurant provided a limited buffet style menu during the lunch and dinner hours of the day. Located near the University of Los Angeles Campus, the restaurant appeals to many young adults, often students, and all the businesses and theater in the district of Westwood. Mongols BBQ is a very successful business and there are many factors in the way they operate the business that contribute greatly to their success. The restaurant industry in the US tends to be among the costliest markets to operate in but the owners of Mongols managed to leverage their experience in the industry and their cultural influence to run a restaurant below the industry average (see Appendix 2).

Once I stepped inside the restaurant I automatically could hear the music playing at a moderate level and the laughter of the customers. Right off the back the restaurant's ambiance had a positive vibe. Mindful, it was a Saturday late afternoon. Mary Jane Burger and Brew is a local restaurant trying to stay true to its past. The granddaughter of the original owner now runs the place with the intention of serving good quality food where the ingredients are fresh, mouth watering, and surely not filled with antibiotics and all that other genetically modified elements found in processed foods. The vintage, rustic looking place, holds a small town atmosphere with a big taste.

     Running a restaurant can be one of the most stressful jobs as well as the most fun and rewarding jobs. If the manager is a good leader with excellent leadership skills and has great followers the restaurant will be rewarded. If not the restaurant will plummet in sales and no one will be pleased. While developing a business. staff is important to running a successful restaurant, it is also essential that management focus on its public relations as well as its sales and marketing strategies.

The sweet smell of garlic, tickles your nose as you park your car. Its sweet aroma guides your taste buds to the unassuming establishments were the Italian flavor lingers in the air.

Inequality between classes is historically rooted in sociological behaviour. Baumann and Johnston describe how amongst foodies, it was only an elite minority who took up the gourmet scene in North America prior to 1960 (5). “Consumption is, as it always has been, a socially embedded and embodied phenomenon” (Boden, 8). Consumerism and consumption now contains its own ideology, culture, and identity. The search for distinction is one of the primary drivers of contemporary consumerism and consumption. However, due to the increasing accessibility of commodities and experiences, people are not easily distinguishable. The ubiquitous question in society is “what do you do?” Or, in Pugh’s work “what do your parents do?” People attempt to fulfil specific societal positions in order to fit, which in turn causes a blurred image of one’s actual status and wealth. (For instance, the rejection of snobbery; the growing middle class; the ubiquitous search for a bargain; the modernization of roles and etiquette; the amount of choice and rapidity of change in trends; the use of credit or loans; the importance of fitting in; the ability to gain status through knowledge; and