The food and beverage aspect of hotel operations is often the most difficult area to control effectively, but it plays a crucial role in customer satisfaction. Improving Food and Beverage Performance is able to show how successful catering operations can increase profitability w…
The food and beverage aspect of hospitality operations is often the most difficult area to control effectively, but it plays a crucial role in customer satisfaction. Improving Food and Beverage Performance shows how successful catering operations can increase profitability whils…
Supply chain management is vital for understanding the behaviour of economic agents involved in exchange. Moreover, it is a way to respond to consumer preferences by integrating the efforts and requirements of all actors involved in transactions. Agricultural commodities are a…
This book develops an integrated research framework in which social science and natural science merge in the analysis of the relationships and transactions within the mango supply chain from Costa Rica. More specifically, behaviour economics, and institutional economics is combi…
This is a fully rewritten and extended version of the successful textbook “Innovation of food production systems”. It focuses on consumer-driven food product innovation using a systems-oriented approach. It integrates marketing and consumer sciences with technological aspects …
Because of the growing societal concerns regarding industrial environmental pollution, it is essential to get a deeper understanding of the factors influencing firms to reduce their environmental impact. This book considers these concerns by evaluating the importance of these f…
The food sector is the third most regulated industry in the EU. It is the most important production sector, but its competitiveness and innovativeness are under pressure. This book reports on a legal research into the question if there is a connection between the sector?s decl…
Combining fronline investigation with startling new data, this book shows how the way we live now has created a global food crisis - and what we can do to fix it.
Explores the increasing industrializiation of agri culture throughout the world and the changing inte rnational divisions of labour that result as new commodities and new suppliers emerge.
Sensory analysis is an important tool in new product development. There has recently been significant development in the methods used to capture sensory perception of a product. 'Rapid Sensory Profiling Techniques' provides a comprehensive review of rapid methods for sensory ana…
"This second edition of a best-selling text provides a comprehensive overview of the new food product development process. Stages of development are described in detail, beginning with sources of ideas, and then moving through development, final screening, and introduction into …