Age and ethnic restaurant visiting frequency - Theseus

Count41Figure 16, above shows the respondent food preference which help to understandpeople taste and preference in the market. More than half 67 percent people respondedas they like Finnish food. Spicy, Italian, and Indian were given almost samepreference where those food got 15, 14 and 14 percent response respectively. Vegetarianfood was choice of 10 percent respondents. While Asian food got nine percent,continental food five percent and African food got 4 percent response from respondentsrespectively. Two percent choose some other food as their preference of food.Profession and food preference3025262015105018 171815 15 1513 131112127 75 5 5 523 2 3 2 2 341 1 1 1111studentWorkerRetiredUnemployedOtherFoodFIGURE 17. Profession and preferred food (n =234)While further analyzing the preference of foods in different professional group andpresented in figure 17. The result clearly showed that respondents still had strongpreference for Finnish food regardless of profession. However, in the category onnon-Finnish food spicy, Italian and Indian food were popular in most of the category.Stu-dents preferred spicy and Indian food more. Workers seemed to be distributedevenly among the entire food category other than African. African food was leastpopular. This shows that in Varkaus demand for Finnish, Italian, spicy, and Indianfood is quite strong especially in the segment of students and workers.