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Tables of Contents for Eating Out
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of illustrations
vii
List of tables
viii
Acknowledgements
x
Studying eating out
1
20
Methods of investigation
6
3
Theories and themes
9
7
The organisation of the book
16
5
Part I Modes of provision
The development of the habit of eating out in the UK
21
21
The commercial mode
23
12
Institutional catering
35
3
The communal mode
38
2
Provision: a summary
40
2
The meanings of eating out
42
27
Shared understandings of eating out
43
4
Reasons to eat out: pleasure, leisure and necessity
47
5
Attitudes towards eating out
52
3
Eating out and other leisure activities
55
1
Entertaining
56
5
Shared understanding and cultural templates
61
8
Part II Access
Patterns of eating out
69
23
The forming of a habit?
71
3
Commercial venues: who visits where?
74
12
On being a guest
86
2
Metropolitan and provincial patterns
88
1
The concentration of inequality
89
3
Domestic organisation, family meals and eating out
92
25
The organisation of domestic foodwork
94
5
Commercial alternatives: substitution, time and money
99
3
Shared understandings of the meal and the regulation of eating out
102
3
About family meals and moral panics
105
3
Domestic organisation, families and commodification
108
9
Part III Delivery
Personal service in public and private settings
117
18
Service and formality in the restaurant
121
7
Comparing commercial service and private hospitality
128
3
Power and informality
131
4
Last suppers
135
34
Mapping food tastes
147
12
Diversity, convergenceoranomie?
159
10
Part IV Enjoyment: the attractions of eating out
Eating out as a source of gratification
169
22
Are customers really satisfied?: a methodological interlude
175
9
Gratification and the definition of diningout
184
1
Towards as ystematic vocabulary of gratification: a theoretical interlude
184
5
Elements of enjoyment
189
2
The enjoyment of meal events
191
24
Sensuality: pleasure and joy
191
4
Instrumentalism: satisfaction and achievement
195
4
Contemplation: entertainment and appreciation
199
5
Sociality : participation and mutuality
204
3
The social importance of mutual gratification
207
2
Simple and compound enjoyment
209
6
Part V Conclusion
Eating out and theories of consumption
215
13
Events
215
3
Variety
218
6
The social consequences of eating out
224
4
Methodological appendix: data collection and analysis
228
6
References
234
9
Index
243