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How do restaurants use psychology to manipulate our spending and eating habits?

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Question added by Abeer AlSayed , Senior Media Relations Officer , Jordan River Foundation
Date Posted: 2017/03/19
Fouad Berberi
by Fouad Berberi

They buy low-quality unsafe food and beverage products and use it to sell you meals at lowest market price possible. They use high-resolution pictures of meals taken before -when the managers were honest and cared about people - and sized up to look appetizing.

jeevan singh mahra
by jeevan singh mahra , comi 1 , jughead

Restaurants use photographs to entice diners

 

Restaurants design their menus

 

Restaurants will visually highlight foods in bold

 

Restaurants connect food to family members

Mojeed Balogun
by Mojeed Balogun , DEMI CHEF DE PARTIE , Damasco Restaurant LLC

Restaurant use photographs to entice dinners to make menu more attractive and appealling

dinesh babu
by dinesh babu , Operation Manager Restaurants Cafes Bakery catering events , fine, Dincasual, QSR Restaurant Cafe & Bakery & catering Pizza Hut Burger King taco bell

Eating out is nothing new to so many people but most times we do not really think about the impact of the restaurants we eat and how the influence our eating and spending habits. How much people spend when they enter a restaurant to eat is mostly influenced by psychology.  The following are how restaurants use psychological tricks to manipulate your eating and spending habits and Research has shown that playing classical music in restaurants will encourage people to spend more because it has a way of making people feel more affluent.

Lakshmi Priya Priya
by Lakshmi Priya Priya , student internship , microhard infotech llc

they have started to loot a lot of money from us by starting all porsche gourmet restaurants that sell all type of foreign foods in the country. They put tempting pictures and attract customers. No one can guarantee the quality of the food though

Eyad Al sad
by Eyad Al sad , Restaurant General Manager , Gulf Center Holding Group

They buy food and low-quality drinks that sell you meals at the lowest possible price on the market. They use high resolution images of meals taken before They spend a lot in advertising. But in fact they use low quality to reduce their cost.

Damian Aguilar Alamillo
by Damian Aguilar Alamillo , business administrator , Nassar corporation

 putting the products with more percentage of utility to the center of the menu or having the waiters recommend those products avoiding waste and increasing utility to the company

Noroz Ali Joji
by Noroz Ali Joji , Manager , Smart Shoes

Its 21st Century people know very well about the products quality . There are no quality issues. but just taste. If the taste is good then taste will cover the quality and one more thing is THE SERVING ..

MOHAMED MUSTHAFA MANNOO PARAMMBIL
by MOHAMED MUSTHAFA MANNOO PARAMMBIL , account manager , German Imaging Technologies

giving lot of advertising with mouth watering pictures and giving attractive naming for the special items.decorating restaurent area look more hygenic,giving more priority for fast foods items and try  to analyse which community are close to the restaurent area.

ayman hamed
by ayman hamed , Excecutive Mgr. , Cameo Hotels & Furnished Apts. Co.

Most restaurants provide meals that match the eating habits of the working class which do not have time to enjoy the healthy home-made meals since they (the workers) do not either have time to get home for lunch or the spouse also is employed as well. Hence the restaurants "adapt" their menu to the territory they have their establishments founded. This adaptation process will mainly seek to tempt the consumers by tantalizing their taste; the upper administration level employees will be lured into a rich menu of gourmet food. While the lower level workers will be offered a limited list of pre-prepared, low-cost sandwiches and platters.  

by preparation of final product,taste,menu,advertisement,price and shop layout etc

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