Fast food eating habits of consumers at Long Xuyen City

Thi Minh Hai Nguyen1, , Quang Huy Tran2
1 An Giang University
2 Student, An Giang University

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Abstract

This study aims to evaluate customers’ awareness about fast food, and describe their fast food eating habits in Long Xuyen. The research employed online and face-to-face survey with a sample size of 200 participants. The discriptive statistics results show that the consumers eat fast food because of its good taste and convenience; their fastfood eating is found on holidays or weekends, on average 2 - 4 times/month, and 6-10:30 pm is the peak time for fastfood, mainly eating at restaurants with friends/colleagues; fried chicken and solf drink are most popular at VND 30,000 – 70,000, and  Lotteria is the most popolar choice.

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