In addition, the perceived quality of the dining experience with local food in the proposed framework is viewed on the basis of two dimensions: visitor cognition (thoughts) and emotions (feelings), as adapted from Yuan (2009). Cognition arises as a result of all of the relevant dining-related information that is transmitted to the conscious mind through the senses, for instance, what visitors think about the local food that they see, smell, taste, and touch. By contrast, emotion involves visitor affective responses, such as excitement, joy, surprise, disappointment that are evoked during the course of dining experiences.