The Study of Ethical Issues in Restaurant OF Karachi, Pakistan

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Rimsha Zafar , Samreen Lodhi ,

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Volume 5 - February 2016 (02)

Abstract

Ethics includes social, cultural and moral values of an organization. Nowadays restaurant are involving in deceptive advertisement, unhygienic food and poor food quality these out key ethical issues in restaurants of Karachi, Pakistan. In this study researcher focuses on three main variables hygienic factor, deceptive advertisements and food quality. All these three variables have been taken and gathered the data through mail, survey questionnaire and email, sample size of 200 respondents from different areas of Karachi male and female age group between 20 to 40 years. Data compiled and analyzed through Statistical techniques like descriptive, correlate and regression. The results show that ethics influence hygienic factor whereas deceptive advertisement and food quality of a restaurant is better known when a family buy the food at restaurant. Therefore it is very important for restaurants to train their employees and give them a better knowledge of ethics.

Keywords

ethics, hygienic factor, deceptive advertisements and food quality.

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