A study on the Effectiveness of Web sites of Food Services in Korea

국내 외식업체의 웹사이트 효율성에 관한 연구

As a result of their web sites about 25 food services, it shows that only 20% of food services are conducting transactions online. As a whole food services in general have mastered the basics of setting up a web site, and it is revealed that some web sites with high average score are using flash s/w, which has a considerable interest in graphic. Family restaurant is the highest in average score and icecream is the lowest. The best individual site is Tonyromas site of Family restaurant sector, the second best site is TGI Friday's of the same Family restaurant sector, the third Pizzahut of pizza sector, and the fourth Lotteria site of Fast food sector. It is suggest that this preliminary study could be advanced by extending the sample size and a program of more extensive statistical analysis by devising. Also it is shows that it is possible for B2B transaction and B2C transaction to be conducted more actively It is suggested that Pizza(60%) and Icecream(40%) of food products which are small in size and easy to be ordered and delivered can be feasible and successful in transactions online. In conclusion, it is very important to keep the contents of web sites up-to-date and attractive to customers, and to establish several ways which can enable customers to interact with food services to induce a dialogue with customers, and it is necessary to introduce new technologies for specific differences of their own sites.