the setting out of fear for their protection/safety. The facts that some food placed were very large in the food court and had more of a variation of foods was a major effect when choosing food.Table 1-setting of food courtTablesrubbish areaThe PatternsThe major patterns of focus were gender and age, and how they have big effects on people when they are choosing food and when they are involved in eating. I observed patterns such as the time people spend on choosing and eating the food, proportions of food eaten. I also examined other patterns such as how people vary when eating in a group and when eating alone and the effects of being around the opposite gender when eating. The pattern I concentrated on the most was which cultures of food were eaten most and which age group and gender choose to eat which culture foods.Children seemed mostly to eat the quick and easy meals, it was mainly McDonalds, or KFC. Although the majority were McDonalds, this does not seem hard to believe. It was always the happy meal, with a burger, chips and drink, not to forget mentioning the toy that came along with the meal. Which I found very interesting, because after a few bites of their cheeseburger, a couple of fries and a sip of coke, that was it for the meal. The toy became the centre of attention, so that to me was why the children were always eating McDonalds or KFC, they were not interested in different culture foods. They stuck to what was familiar to them, only because the media chocks down what they want to see, and play with. Middle aged people walked around the food court and thought more about what they were going to eat, what was going to satisfy them more. They were the type to try something different to the same old stuff. The older age groups were more fussier of what they wanted, they took a while, some conclusions that I came up with may have been, prices, not familiar with some culture foods, diabetes could have been a proble...
