Stigma

  • Denny’s downgraded but will stigma affect sales?

    Posted: February 17th, 2012 - 1:51pm by Doug Powell

    Denny’s is like the Taco Bell of breakfast: no matter how much foodborne illness is sourced to Taco-Restaurant-A-Bell or Denny’s, people continue to scarf down these cheap sources of calories.

    Stigma or stupidity, it doesn’t faze the boss.

    Add Jimmy John’s sprout sandwiches to the impervious to stigma list.

    The Cibola Beacon reports the New Mexico state Environment Department has downgraded Denny’s Restaurant for repeated food safety violations and posted an “unsatisfactory” grade emblem was posted at each of the facility’s entrances.

    The Feb. 7 regular visit report listed six violations, two high-risk and four low-risk, which required a follow-up inspection.

    A Feb. 15 follow-up inspection found, “hand-wash sinks filthy, inconsistent and minimal hand-washing observed, food-film covering all non-food contact surfaces including equipment handles, microwaves, doors and handles of walk-ins.”

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    denny's, Disclosure, food safety, Jimmy John's, stigma, Taco Bell
  • The food (safety) cycle: recall, forget, repeat

    Posted: December 4th, 2010 - 8:58pm by Doug Powell

    Memories can be short when it comes to food recalls.

    Amy Schoenfeld writes in Sunday’s New York Times that while Americans are concerned about food contamination, experts say that recalls have only a short-term effect on consumers.

    When spinach was recalled in 2006, consumers took over a year to return to previous spending patterns. But after recent recalls of peanut butter, beef and eggs, customers came back in a matter of weeks.

    One explanation for this is that eggs are a staple; nearly 9 in 10 Americans say they eat them. By contrast, only 5 in 10 Americans say they are spinach eaters. After the spinach recall, 10 percent of spinach eaters said they were unlikely to eat spinach again. In contrast, 3 percent of egg eaters said they would stop purchasing eggs.

    Rather than waiting to sue after sickness, consumers could use their buying power to demand microbiologically safer food, if someone would start marketing at retail.

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    food safety, Marketing, purchase, recall, Retail, stigma