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Anette Svingstedt.

Anette Svingstedt

Universitetslektor

Anette Svingstedt.

Restaurant practices – time, planning, knowledge and dreams

Författare

  • Lotte Wellton
  • Inger M Jonsson
  • Ute Walter
  • Anette Svingstedt

Summary, in English

This paper contributes to research on restaurant work, which plays an important role in culinary arts research. The aim of this study was to make visible and elucidate the daily work practices in eight small restaurants in a seasonal tourist destination on the Southeast coast of Sweden. The central methods used were observations and participant observations and interviews, along with an e-mail questionnaire and examination of published information concerning all the restaurants. By means of practice theory, three central elements were used to identify and understand the configuration of the activities involved in daily work in small seasonal restaurants. These three elements, knowledge/competence, technologies/materiality and creation of meaning, formed four practices. The practices identified in this study were managing time and seasons; planning, strategising and controlling; knowing and having skills; and dreams and lifestyle. The conclusion of the study indicates that small restaurant practices may be conflicting, as they involve an extremely time-consuming workload, vague planning and lingering knowledge growth in contrast to the ideas of creativity and development that are a part of the restaurant owners’ dreams and lifestyle.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap

Publiceringsår

2016-06-13

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1-15

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
  • Business Administration

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1502-2250