Can Healthy Food Menus be Introduced in the Restaurants

Abstract

This paper is aimed at creating awareness about healthy food and understanding people’s perception on consuming healthy food at restaurants. Healthy food is a good mixture of varieties of foods that provide nutrition, wellness to the body and mind to maintain the balance and functioning for good health. Now a days’, healthy food options are readily available but the perception of having it is expensive amongst most people. Establishing menu’s which are focusing on wholesome food and comprising of balanced diet is making new-way in the world of restaurant business. The study concludes that, launching Healthy food menus could be the opportunity for restaurants to catch the light in upcoming time. The purpose of this paper was to understand the relationship between healthy eating foods and increase in customer numbers requiring healthier menus. Healthy menus should include traditional, gluten free, sugar free, vegetarian, vegan and seafood products. The study also aims to reveal factors that attract customers to restaurants offering healthy menu. The survey is conducted in the form of questionnaire to find out the opinions of various people from Pune city. The survey is backed by multiple theoretical researches which have been taken from various articles, journals and research papers.

Keywords: Healthy Food, Nutrients, Human Health

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