1. Kimberly Harris Dedman School of Hospitality sirrahkim@aol.com
Research in food safety in restaurants, reactions to consumers to foodborne illness outbreaks, and the propensity for ethnic restaurants to receive more food safety restaurant inspections than non-ethnic restaurants.
Independent restaurants are receiving more food safety inspections than chain restaurants for reasons that have yet to be studied; however, research suggests that lack of training, equipment, and ability to perform in-house quality control checks are to blame.
Food safety inspection system improvement; improving safe food handling in the home, investigating the opinions of consumers regarding food safety and the responsibility of the restaurant, farmer, distributor, and border patrol to provide safe products.
My strength is over 30 years of food and beverage experience. I have been teaching the subject and researching training, food safety, and food and beverage operations since My main interest at this point is behaviors associated with food safety; therefore, the last few studies have incorporated SEM and the use of Mechanical Turk/Qualtrics.