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http://dx.doi.org/10.3746/jkfn.2006.35.6.801

Dietitians' Customer Orientation at Contract Foodservice Management Company  

Shin, Seo-Young (Hotel, Restaurant & Institutional Management, The Graduate School of Human Environmental Science, Yonsei University)
Kim, Hee-Yeon (Hotel, Restaurant & Institutional Management, The Graduate School of Human Environmental Science, Yonsei University)
Choi, Mi-Kyung (Research Institute of Food & Nutritional Science, Yonsei University)
Yang, Il-Sun (Hotel, Restaurant & Institutional Management, The Graduate School of Human Environmental Science, Yonsei University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition / v.35, no.6, 2006 , pp. 801-808 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purposes of this study were to measure customer orientation of dietitians engaged in contract foodservice management companies, and to examine the impacts of personal characteristics and organizational characteristics on the customer orientation of dietitians. The questionnaires developed for this study were distributed to 230 dietitians of contract foodservice management companies, including 4 major companies, in Seoul and Gyeonggi areas. A total of 187 (81.3%) questionnaires were used for analysis, and statistical analyses were conducted using SPSS (Win 11.5) for descriptive analysis, correlation analysis, t-test and ANOVA. The average customer orientation score of the dietitians was 3.77 (SD=0.40) and it seemed that most respondents evaluated themselves as customer-oriented. Further analyses revealed significant differences in customer orientation among different position (p<0.05) and payroll (p<0.01) groups.'Type of menu' also affected the customer orientation (p<0.01). Overall, it is needed to design efficient training programs that improve service skills and customer orientation of dietitians, and the understandings on variables affecting customer orientation would help it.
Keywords
contract foodservice management company; dietitians; customer orientation;
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