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FACTORS THAT EFFECT ON CHOOSING GLOBAL OR LOCAL FASTFOOD PRODUCT: SAMPLE OF MUGLA
Abstract
In today’s urban life style, fastfood culture has been increasingly widespread as a result of time constraints of people that live in big cities. The purposes of this study were to determine patterns of fastfood consumption, measure effects of some criteria on choosing fastfood product and determine effects of demographic and socio-economic factors on fastfood consumption. Also in this study we aim to determine differences on choosing fastfood products between people’s that prefer local fastfood products or global fastfood products. Research data were collected by face to face interviews with the help of survey forms in mugla city center. Some demographic variables like age, gender and level of income create a significant difference on some factors that have effects on choosing fastfood product. Also, awareness of healthy life and marital status were two important factors that differentiate fastfood consumption rate. Fastfood type product is generally considered as symbol of unhealthy feeding style. In this context, fastfood companies should give information about nutritive value in their menus and sell healthy foods for social reasons as well as focus on the consumers’ needs and habits about fastfood consumption for success
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Turkish
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Publication Date
March 1, 2012
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March 1, 2012
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Year 2012 Volume: 1 Number: 1