From isolated labels and nudges to sustained tinkering: assessing long-term changes in sustainable eating at a lunch restaurant

Autor: Jari Lyytimäki, Minna Kaljonen, Marja Salo, Eeva Furman
Přispěvatelé: Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
kokeilu
labelling
restaurants
tönäiseminen
02 engineering and technology
sustainable eating
behavioural approach
muutos
010501 environmental sciences
nudging techniques
01 natural sciences
climate change mitigation
lounasravintolat
experimentation
analytical concepts
customer survey
syömiskäyttäytyminen
promoting sustainable eating
Sustainable agriculture
behavioural economics
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering

carbon labels
Sociology
Marketing
kyselymenetelmä
choice
media_common
2. Zero hunger
food services
lounasravintola
workplace lunch restaurants
Praxis
ravintolat
Nudge theory
transition
ruokavalio
kestävän kehityksen syöminen
practice-oriented understanding
survey-menetelmä
catering
long-term changes
ruokapalvelut
nudging
focus group discussion
kuluttajat
Business
Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)

survey-tutkimus
020209 energy
media_common.quotation_subject
lunch restaurant
kyselytutkimus
kulutus
työpaikkaravintolat
ilmastovaikutukset
consumers
valinta
pitkän aikavälin muutokset
ruoka
lunch restaurants
behavioural approaches
survey
climate impact
consumption
merkinnät
MENU DESIGN
behavioristinen lähestymistapa
Tinker
Consumer behaviour
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
informational techniques
Consumption (economics)
eating behaviour
tinkering
food
promotion
Focus group
puuhailu
monitoring
Climate change mitigation
416 Food Science
13. Climate action
ilmastonmuutoksen hillitseminen
BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
diet
Food Science
Zdroj: British Food Journal. 122:3313-3329
ISSN: 0007-070X
DOI: 10.1108/bfj-10-2019-0816
Popis: PurposeThe critical role of diet in climate change mitigation has raised behavioural approaches to the top of the agenda. In this paper, the authors take a critical look at these behavioural approaches and call for a more dynamic, practice-oriented understanding of long-term changes in sustainable food consumption and supply.Design/methodology/approachThis approach is based on the experiences from a long-term experiment promoting sustainable eating in a workplace lunch restaurant using a series of informational and nudging techniques. In the experiment, the authors found that focussing solely on eating behaviours did not help to capture the multi-level change processes mobilised. The authors therefore propose a more dynamic, practice-oriented methodology for examining long-term changes in sustainable eating. The emprical data of the experiment are based on qualitative and quantitative data, consisting of customer survey, customer and kitchen personnel focus group discussions and monitoring data on the use of food items in the restaurant and their climate impacts.FindingsThe results draw attention to a series of practical challenges restaurants face when promoting sustainable eating. Directing analytical attention to tinkering helped to reveal the tensions brought about by labelling and nudging in menu planning and recipe development. The results show how tinkering required attentiveness to customers' wishes in both cases. Nudging offered more freedom for the restaurant to develop menus and recipes. In the case scrutinised, however, nudging customers towards tastier and more satiating vegetarian dishes included the use of dairy. This partly watered down the climate benefits gained from reduced meat consumption.Originality/valueRather than looking separately at changes in consumer behaviour and in the supply of food, the authors show how we need analytical concepts that enable the evaluation of their mutual evolution. Tinkering can assist us in this endeavour. Its adaptive, adjustive character, however, calls for caution. The development of praxis in food services and catering requires critical companions from the transdisciplinary research community. Research can provide systematic knowledge on the impacts of labels and nudges on kitchen praxis. However, research itself also needs to tinker and learn from experiments. This necessitates long-term speculative research strategies.
Databáze: OpenAIRE