Schedule
Friday, April 22, 2016
8:30am - 4:00pm
9:15am - 9:30am
9:30am - 10:30am
10:30am - 11:00am
11:00am - 11:20am
11:20am - 11:50am
12:00pm - 1:30pm
1:40pm - 2:10pm
2:15pm - 2:45pm
2:45pm - 3:30pm
3:30pm - 4:00pm
4:30pm - 6:00pm
7:00pm
Registration
Welcome
Career Panel
The Effect of Scarcity Messages on Healthy Menu Item Purchase Intention
Yang Xu, Sangwook Kang, and Eunha (Lena) Jeong
CV Workshop
Pre-registraion Required for Guaranteed Spaces
Walk in is first come first serve in open time slots
Mid-Morning Break
Fast Food: To Eat or Not to Eat
Goodwin-Charles Ogbeide, Jennifer Henk, and Dylan C. Martinez
Consumer Taste Preferences for Chardonnay
Angel F. Gonzalez, Catherine Curtis, and Ben Callaway
Lunch and Keynote Speaker
Brett Mitchell, General Manager of Overland Park Convention Center
Consumer Knowledge, Understanding and Use of Nutritional Labels: Millennial Impacts
Kabo Segikgo, Godwin-Charles Ogbeide, and Dylan C. Martinez
Effects of Self-Congruity and Destination Image on Destination Loyalty: The Moderating Role of Perceived Cultural Difference
Woohyuk Kim and Kristin Malek
Big Data Analytics in Hospitality Research: An Example of Chinese Restaurant Reviews from Yelp.com
Xiaoye Li, Chen-Wei Tao, Bongsug (Kevin) Chae, Han Wen, and Junehee Kwon
Enhancing Hospitality Teaching Effectiveness: An Experimental (Hands-on) Approach
Godwin-Charles Ogbeide
Poster Sessions and Mid-Afternoon Break
The Intention of Child Nutrition Employees to Wash their Hands Properly
Michelle Alcorn, Kevin Roberts, Kevin Sauer, Carol Shanklin, and Paula Paez
One Example of Teaching Emotional Intelligence to Hospitality Students
Kara Wolfe
Complimentary Cocktail Hour at Embassy Suite
J Bar on the Patio
Dinner and Explore Kansas City on your own!
Poster Presentations
Destination Personality: Travelers’ Perspectives and Insights of Kansas
Naiqing Lin, Juhyun Kang, and Kevin R. Roberts
Factors Affecting Small and Medium Enterprises’ Success in Hospitality Sphere of Developing Countries
Kiyan Shafieizadeh and Lisa Slevitch
Factors and Attributes Determining Craft Beer Choice and Consumption: An Investigation of Craft Beer in Oklahoma Nohema Garcia Castaneda and Catherine Curtis
How a Manager’s Implicit Person Theory Disposition Influences an Employee’s Perceived Fairness of Performance Appraisals in the Hospitality Industry.
James M. Storey and Eric Brown
Jamaican Foodservice Customers’ Perception of Cultural Eating Habits and Their Contribution to Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Winifred Almon and Jerrold Leong
Social Indicators as a Determinant of Social Carrying Capacity in Small Island Developing States: The case of Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Norene Brown-Roomes and Catherine Curtis
Saturday, April 23, 2016
8:00am - 3:00pm
9:30am - 11:00am
11:00am - 11:20am
11:20am - 11:50am
12:00pm - 1:30pm
1:45pm - 2:15pm
2:20pm - 3:00pm
Registration
Industry Trends Panel
Scott Redler: COO & Co-Founder of Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers Don Breckenridge, CHA: Area General Manager for Intercontinental Kansas City Mark Bado, MCM, CCE: General Manager/COO of The Kansas City Country Club Sue Heley, CMP, CMM: Conference and Event Strategist, Heley Creative
Mid-Morning Break
The Perception of Restaurant Employees Regarding Formal Training and the Impact on Performance and Growth
Reginald Carmon
Peer-to-Peer Objectivity within Experiential Pedagogy: Peer Evaluation as Realistic StudentBased Assessment
Matthew Houseworth, Matthew VanSchenkh, and Mary McCord
Lunch and Keynote Speaker
Mike Whalen, President and CEO of Heart of America Group
Social Media Reporting After a Restaurant Service Failure
Aviad Israeli, Seonjeong (Ally) Lee, and Jennifer Deighton
Sentiment Analysis of Chinese New Year Celebration in the United States: Analysis of Twitter Data
Yi Cao, Junehee Kwon, and Kristin Malek
Conference Wrap Up and Regional Update
All Attendees are Encouraged to Attend