• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.103-118
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• 2015

This study is intended to look into the effect of dining space color and design on customers' psychological response, satisfaction, and reuse intention of restaurants. To achieve this, an empirical survey was carried out based on responses from 400 dining-out customers. The results were as follows. The dining space color and design had a significant and positive effect on customers' psychological reaction, satisfaction and reuse intention of restaurants. This is a result of positively evaluated service through an increased customer emotional response to simultaneous factors. It also suggest a recognition of a customer's psychological response in forming images based on restaurant attributes aside from food quality, such technique, ornamental equipment, sound, and design factors harmonized with indoor environment, in an attempt to increase customer interest in an increasingly competitive business environment. Consequently, dining space color and design can lead to customers' psychological satisfaction and reuse intention.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.1-19
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• 2012

This study is the research about the internet marketing strategy and the impact factors of psychological well-being of customers of restaurants. For the purpose of study, firstly, the paper was carried out in order to verify the cause and effect relationships of life satisfaction and psychological well-being of the customers in the food service industry. The customers of restaurants in Busan are the objectives for which the survey for empirical analysis was conducted. The result of the testing of hypothesis showed that life satisfaction will have positive influences on psychological well-being, it reveals that life satisfaction has positive influences on three factors of psychological well-being such as personal growth, self acceptance, independence. However, factor of autonomy is rejected. Secondly, the results of the study suggest the importance of introducing variegated internet marketing programs and deciding the appropriate information contents for the customer to activate the use of hands on restaurants. Internet information contents on customer satisfaction and customer loyalty to have a good understanding of the attitude will improve of life satisfaction and psychological well-being of the customers. Strategic information contents of internet marketing for customers of the restaurants must be consider "CRM(customer relationship management)".

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.154-166
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• 2011

This research aims to analyze the effects of a service employee's personality on job fit and customer orientation in food service business. Based on total 164 samples obtained from an empirical research for service employees who engage in food service business, the findings of the research are as follows. First, the service employee's personality consists of extroversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and intelligence. Second, the service employee's job fit is affected by agreeableness, conscientiousness and intelligence of a service employee. Third, the service employee's extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and intelligence significantly affect the service employee's customer orientation. Fourth, the service employee's customer orientation is affected by job fit. Based on the findings of this research, service employee's personality affect job fit and customer orientation.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.385-397
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• 2021

This study examined service failure and recovery of domestic ethnic food restaurants based on a model of the repercussions of service failure dealing with seriousness and control and the cause-and-effect relationships among the variables relevant to the quality of relationships -trust, satisfaction, and loyalty. This study provides valuable information for Korean restaurant managers regarding food service failure and response plans by collecting data from actual Japanese tourists visiting ethnic food restaurants. The results suggested that it is important to develop a strategy to present the distributional fairness to customers who recognize the seriousness of service failure to control the situation promptly. These results can be used to establish more systematic business plans, improving customer management and firm performance. The advantage of this research is that it is time for substantial research data on the booming domestic restaurant industry and service quality to overcome the current recession and grow and solidify the current restaurant market.

• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.571-582
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• 2001

The purpose of this study was to identify important selection attributes of customers for dining at family restaurants, and the determinant and predicting factors in customers' intentions of revisiting. A closed-ended questionnaire was used, and a systematic sampling approach was employed to survey a sample of customers in family restaurants. A total of 124 questionnaires were used for analysis among 300 distributed. Multivariate analysis(factor and regression analysis) was performed for 19 selection attributes measured on a five-point scale. A four-dimensional structure(harmonized decoration consistent service, valuable food, and attractive facility) was established from 19 selection attributes. The results of the study showed that three dimensions were significantly related with the customer's intention of revisiting. The dimension of consistent service had the greatest impact on customers' choice. It was clear that a family restaurant manager's emphasis on only one dimension to attract customers might not be as effective as applying a multi-dimensional strategy.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.51-59
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• 2013

This study, through the domestic literature research and the success stories of restaurant business, derived the success factors, the impact of these factors on the management performance was carried out through a survey for the establishment of Foodservice Business empirical research. First, according to the result that analyze effect that founder special quality factor gets in management result, was expose that a social technology causes effect that keep in mind in net profit growth rate and customer rate of increment and result that establishment readiness keeps in mind in net profit growth rate, customer rate of increment and seat turnover rate was confirmed. Second, in operation management factor accessibility in customer rate of increment and seat turnover rate, facilities in seat turnover rate, service capacity in net profit growth rate and customer rate of increment and seat turnover rate, promotion activity was confirmed that keep in mind each in customer rate of increment. Third, the effect that quality directivity gets in management result in occasion of establishment restaurant business in goods factor was confirmed that do not keep in mind statistically. Therefore, this study, by presenting the factors for establishment of restaurant business, may contribute to the success strategy establishment of the establishment restaurant business preparator and existing restaurant businessmen.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.277-287
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• 2016

This research was conducted over four weeks from April 1, 2016 until April 30. Data collection was of responses from customers who a self-targeting customers who have visited more than 10 eating out establishments in downtown Seoul. First, a regression analysis was conducted to analyze the effect of activity of the food service industry marketing communications on customer satisfaction. First, advertising, B=0.107 (p<.001), convenient, B=0.093 (p<.05), social B=0.294 (p<.01), PR B=0.334 (p<.001), sales promotion B=0.542 (p<.001), personnel sales each had a significant positive influence (+) on customer satisfaction B=0.111 (p<.01). Secondly, menu selection catering property between marketing communications and customer satisfaction analysis of the impact of human Sales were significantly positive (+) Publicity Department had the effect of (-). In addition, advertising and sales promotion did not have any moderating effect.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.38-54
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of customers' perception of corporate associations on trust, loyalty, revisit intention, and switching intention in the foodservice company and verify if there are significant moderating effects between family restaurants and fast-food restaurants. A total of 552 restaurant patrons in Korea participated in the survey. The results showed that corporate ability association and corporate social responsibility association among corporate associations had a significant effect on customers' trust, which had a positive significant influence on loyalty. Moreover, customers' loyalty had a significant effect on customers' revisit and switching intention. In addition, the moderating effects of company types are observed in the relationships among customers' perception of corporate associations and trust. Limitations of the study and future research directions are also discussed.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.77-90
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• 2016

This study is to examine the importance of site selection and service quality in franchise business as food service franchise became one of the fastest-growing service industries today. The chief finding of this study is as follows: First, a survey in locational and service quality factors affecting food service franchise shows that responders are more concerned with hygiene and visibility of the store than proximity and transportation advantages which reflects low statistical significance, thus the distance did not seem to be a big problem for the responders in the context that they mostly visit nearby food franchise. Second, the examination of the influence by the service quality factors and customer satisfaction shows significant positive relation with customer response, speed and accuracy, and accuracy factors which reveals that the responders prefer prompt response and swift judgment toward the customer's needs and expectations, professional knowledge services to the credibility factors in which little correlation with the customer satisfaction were found. Third, the examination of the influence by the service quality factors, locational factors, and re-visit reveals that customer response and specialty showed statistically significant correlation with intention of WOM (Word of Mouth) and revisit, which suggests that swift judgment and response toward the customer's needs and expectations, professional knowledge services is of great importance to both customer satisfaction and revisit. The study on the aspects of locational and service quality factors affecting franchise industry's customer satisfaction was conducted as above, an investigation in both factors' influence on the customer satisfaction was made, and based on the results of the analysis, this research seeks an optimal operation strategy of a franchise business. Food service franchise are relatively very competent to business adminstration and reaction capability to consumption changes due to the already established market, and there are stores springing up everywhere inspired by the founders who are too confident of their success in the franchise business. However, it is necessary for the franchise beginners to figure out a zone oriented, regular customer oriented business strategy than just complying with the head office manual. Owing to an increasing trend of opening medium to large sized stores and investments in the wake of converting to multiple business type Korean food franchise, there is growing need to set up new concept of store development and operational management strategy in order to overcome the excessive competition and limited sales volume of the old-fashioned small sized, small capital franchise stores. Furthermore, as most business category of food service franchise serve very similar menus, from a product differentiation point of view, it is required to map out flexible sales concept including the adoption of competitive and low-price strategy. In conclusion, as is shown in the analytical research, the customers' optimal choice fluctuate over their preferences like customer convenience and circumstances rather than insisting on specific brand, thus it will be necessary for the franchise stores to draw up aggressive strategy and planning in running food service franchise to maximize their profits.

• 베이커리
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• no.6 s.371
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• pp.111-135
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• 1999