The restaurant subsector of the service industry is a key point in attracting tourists and also driving for example the megacity status aspirations of Lagos. The Association of Fast Food & Confectioners of Nigerian (AFFCON) estimates the food industry to be worth over a trillion Naira, with the fast food segment constituting over N250 billion and this number is still expected to rise in the future.1 In 2017, this sector had a growth of 7.16% and its contribution to nominal GDP was 0.93% (National Bureau of Statistics, 2017). According to Professor Alfred Ihenkuronye, about 200,ooo people die annually from food poisoning in Nigeria
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