Improving university lunch menu on the international aspect: case study BarLaurea Leppävaara
Tran, Ngoc (2016)
Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu
2016
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2016112817985
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2016112817985
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Apparently foods play an important role in people’s life. People require nutrition in order to maintain their health and provide energy for their activities. Likewise, students significantly need a proper meal which provides enough required nutrition in order to help them maintain and develop their capability of learning. If universities failed to deliver attractive lunch service to their students, it might cause them to either abandon their lunch or be dissatisfied with the lunch service.
From developing university cafeteria quality, it will increase students’ satisfaction as well as student retention. An attractive cafeteria will also become a pleasant space for students to improve their social need. Students therefore can have proper lunch with companies which might affect their mental health and encourage their learning ability.
Study environment in universities recently might become more diverse because of the volume of the international students. Therefore, the objective of this study is to find the possible approaches on how universities can improve their lunch service quality, significantly, focus more on developing menu diversity. BarLaurea from Laurea University of Applied Sciences was chosen for this case study.
General theory of diversity in food cultures and factors affect eating habits will be studied. Specific food cultures will be then mentioned in details based on the majority of nationalities of international students in Finland.
Qualitative research method and quantitative research method will be used in this study. The survey is applied among students from Laurea UAS Leppävaara Unit to get general satisfaction evaluation from students towards BarLaurea. Structured interview will be executed with BarLaurea’s representative. Different approaches will be made according to the analyzed result.
From developing university cafeteria quality, it will increase students’ satisfaction as well as student retention. An attractive cafeteria will also become a pleasant space for students to improve their social need. Students therefore can have proper lunch with companies which might affect their mental health and encourage their learning ability.
Study environment in universities recently might become more diverse because of the volume of the international students. Therefore, the objective of this study is to find the possible approaches on how universities can improve their lunch service quality, significantly, focus more on developing menu diversity. BarLaurea from Laurea University of Applied Sciences was chosen for this case study.
General theory of diversity in food cultures and factors affect eating habits will be studied. Specific food cultures will be then mentioned in details based on the majority of nationalities of international students in Finland.
Qualitative research method and quantitative research method will be used in this study. The survey is applied among students from Laurea UAS Leppävaara Unit to get general satisfaction evaluation from students towards BarLaurea. Structured interview will be executed with BarLaurea’s representative. Different approaches will be made according to the analyzed result.