Restaurant Business Case Study

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Please note that no matter what business you are in, ethical matters are always there. When it comes to making money which business owners do, they have to make choices, at times, hard ones. Anyway, I will list down, what I feel are the major ethical issues faced by restaurant business (Silberman, 2015)

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If they serve alcohol, they are promoting addiction to something which has known bad effects on health
If smoking is allowed they are not acting in interests of people who don’t smoke but would like to come for a meal

On contrary if they don’t allow smoking or don’t have a smoking room they are putting off people who smoke!

Shall they serve unhealthy food (sugar, fat) or they should just serve what people ask for, no matter how unhealthy it is.

Being honest about the ingredients — calling it organic, saying it's "sunrise farms spring lettuce" when it's really Sysco (even if nobody can tell the difference)

Using humane, sustainable meats, buying from purveyors that are good corporate citizens

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