Stephen Leitch
Purdue University
5 Papers
Stephen Leitch is an academic researcher from Purdue University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Service quality & Government. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications.
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Restaurants and COVID-19: What are consumers & rsquo;risk perceptions about restaurant food and its packaging during the pandemic?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored consumers' COVID-19 risk perceptions about food itself, restaurant food specifically, and restaurant food packaging, and found that consumers were less concerned about contracting COVID19 from food in general than restaurant food and its packaging, with consumer restaurant concern highest for food served in restaurants, and lowest for hot/cooked restaurant food followed by restaurant food from carry-out.
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Robot vs human: expectations, performances and gaps in off-premise restaurant service modes
TL;DR: In this paper, a mixed-methods approach was used to evaluate the performance of three off-premise restaurant service modes (robot delivery, human delivery and carry-out) using a survey and a field observation study.
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Consumers' threat and coping appraisals of in-restaurant dining during a pandemic – The moderating roles of conflicting information and trust-in-science and scientists
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the relationship between consumers' threat and coping appraisals and their in-restaurant patronage intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic and the moderating roles of conflicting information (CI) about COVID19 and trust-in-science and scientists (TISS).
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Does vaccination make a difference? Understanding the role of vaccination in consumers’ in-restaurant dining intentions during a pandemic
Karen Byrd,Yiran Liu,Sheryl F. Kline,Alei Fan,Stephen Leitch,Lucheng Wang +5 more
TL;DR: This study examines the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on consumers' in-restaurant dining intentions, revealing temporal differences in relationships between perceived vaccine protection, threat appraisal, and dining intention, with variations between vaccinated and unvaccinated adults.