Consumer Information in the food service industry vs. food retailing
- Publication Type
- Lecture
- Authors
- C. Rogge, T. Becker
- Year of publication
- 2008
- Published in
- AgEcon search
- Editor
- European Association of Agricultural Economists
- Conference name
- People, Food and Environments: Global Trends and European Strategies: 12th Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economics (EAAE 2008)
- Conference location
- Gent, Belgien
- Conference date
- 26.-29. August 2008
In order to define consumer expectations over a traceability and information system for the entire food supply chain, the information behaviour of consumers in the food service industry has been subject to an analysis for the first time. In comparison to consumers in retailing, significant differences appear in information seeking behaviour as well as in the information desired.