An investigation of consumers' use of 'dessert-only' food retail outlets: a mixed-methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To understand how consumers use 'dessert-only' retail food outlets which represent one of the UK's top ten growing retail business categories and a high-street source of energy-dense, low nutrient foods.

Design

Responses to open-ended questions about dessert-only restaurant usage and closed-ended questions about demographic information including frequency of use and BMI were collected.

Setting

Online questionnaire launched from the UK.

Participants

Totally, 203 participants (female = 153; mean age = 33·5 years (sd = 14·2); mean BMI = 25·05 kg/m2 (sd = 5·29)) assisted with the study.

Results

Quantitative results showed that participants used dessert-only restaurants infrequently, and qualitative results showed that they regarded a visit as a tre

SUBMITTER: Randall T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10195495 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature