Role of e-commerce for the survival of food service industry during covid-19

Sammanfattning: Title: Role of e-commerce for the survival of food service industry during covid-19 Level: Thesis for Master‟s Degree in Business Administration   Authors: Ashraful Islam and Sonia Sultana    Supervisor: Professor Akmal Hyder   Examiner: Dr. Olivia Kang   Final submission date: 28-01-2021     Aim: The aim of the study is to examine the various factors involved in adopting an ecommerce platform to overcome the challenges of the covid-19 pandemic in food service industry. Methods: For the research purpose, we have conceptually reviewed articles, books published in different journals, face-to-face interviews, and online surveys. As a methodology, we have used the qualitative method with an inductive approach. We have used primary data only from five intensive interviews in two companies located in Stockholm. We also collected data from the online survey.    Findings: Our research result was outstanding; we have found that the adoption of e-commerce for the foodservice company has a positive impact. This e-commerce platform helps to survive their business in this pandemic situation and contributes to overcome all the challenges faces by the covid-19 pandemic.    Contribution of the thesis: This study contributes to the literature of both challenges of covid-19 created by covid-19 and factors involved in adopting e-commerce platforms to overcome the challenges.    Suggestions for further research: This study is based on Sweden and we only used data from Sweden based restaurant, so, we suggest more extensive research on different type and location of the restaurant.    Key Words: Challenges of covid-19, adoption of e-commerce, online food order, health and safety, Pandemic, Social distance.