• Journal of Distribution Research
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.55-77
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• 2008

The purpose of this research is to understand the effects of environmental uncertainty on transaction characteristics, industry factors, and performance in Korean franchising markets. This research tried to investigate both the characteristics of B-to-C service factors and B-to-B industry factors of franchising industry from the perspectives of CLalt, trust, communication, and other important variables. Hypothetical research model was proposed and, by using SPSS and AMOS, research hypotheses and structural equation models were empirically tested and supported. The results showed that environmental uncertainty has negative effects on relationship characteristics and industry characteristics of franchise. Trust showed positive impact on the performance. Managerial implications and limitations of the study results were also discussed. Future research direction was suggested.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.331-334
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• 2004

외식산업은 국민경제의 발전에 따른 가처분 소득 증가, 여가시간의 증대, 맞벌이 세대의 증가, 핵가족화 등의 성장원인으로 국민의 의식형태의 변화에 따라 수많은 외국 브랜드의 레스토랑이 국내에 진출하여 경쟁이 심화되어 있다. 외국계 레스토랑의 국내 진출은 의식 서비스 품질의 중요성을 인식시켜주는 계기가 되었으며, 고객만족은 그 어떤 무엇보다도 중요한 기업활동의 목적으로 여기는 계기가 되었다. 이러한 점을 감안하여 본 연구는 패밀리 레스토랑을 이용하는 고객들의 만족영향요인으로서 서비스 품질을 선행요인으로 하여 고객만족과 사후에 전개되는 행동과의 관계를 구조적으로 측정하였다. 그리고, 가장 취약한 점을 찾은 후 그 점을 가장 잘 보완할 수 있고, 고객과의 관계를 더욱 친밀히 할 수 있는 새로운 서비스의 타당성을 측정해 보았다. 새로운 서비스로써 지금까지 각 테이블당의 호스트 개념을 고객관리를 함께 하도록 호스트들에게 더 많은 권한을 이양해 주어, 개개인의 호스트라는 느낌을 가져서 타 패밀리 레스토랑보다 특별한 고객으로 대한다는 것을 느낄 수 있게 한다면 통계적으로 살펴봤던 반응성과 공감성 요인의 취약함을 오히려 강점으로 만들 수 있다는 결론이 도출되었다.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.95-108
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• 2013

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the impact of TQM dimensions through service recovery justice on service quality and customer satisfaction. Methods: This study employed structural equation modeling methodology analyzing 265 samples collected. Results: This study found that TQM related factors had positive influence on service recovery justice in general. In specific, top management leadership and employee participation are the most important factors for the service recovery justice. Conclusion: This study reveals that service recovery justice has the positive impact on both service quality and customer satisfaction.

• Journal of Service Research and Studies
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.93-114
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• 2022

The hospitality and food service sector is the food sector that generates the most food waste. To deliver a more sustainable service, the food service industry needs to understand and reduce customer plate waste, which is mostly avoidable. Several studies have investigated the drivers of plate waste behaviors and proposed mitigations. However, service designers need actionable insights that inspire innovative solutions. The goals of this study are twofold. The first goal is to identify factors influencing young consumers' food waste behavior in restaurants. The second goal is to frame food waste challenges as design opportunities for service designers. A photo diary was conducted with 10 Korean university students. Participants took before and after photos of two meals and fill out questionnaires. The questions include personal background, considerations when choosing a meal, satisfaction with the meal, and reasons for leaving food. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected and analyzed. The results suggest that lack of awareness and control are the key drivers of leftovers. The food waste problem is framed into "How Might We" design opportunities for service design. Interventions should focus on improving communication with oneself, dining partners, and restaurants. The paper contributes by demonstrating the service design research approach to framing wicked problems with the example of restaurant food waste.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.186-200
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• 2014

This study investigates the effect of foodservice employees' mentoring part on expressing emotions and self-esteem by conducting a survey. The data collected from the survey were analysed by SPSS18.0 and AMOS for frequency analysis, exploratory analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis and structure equation modeling. The results are as follows. First, the mentoring part was a significant constituent for achieving an organization's objective because a mentor and a mentee could interact and sympathize through personal recommendation, consultation and support for reducing psychological stress. Second, the mentoring part had a positive effect on organizational ability to adapt. Third, organizational conflicts influenced self-esteem. As the results indicated, the foodservice industry should manage an effective mentoring system for high quality services and the attainment of an organizational goal.

• Journal of Service Research and Studies
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 2024

As the service robot market grows among the food technology industry, the quality of robot service that affects consumer behavioral intentions in the restaurant industry has become important. Serving robots, which are common in restaurants, reduce employee work through order and delivery, but because they do not respond to service failures, they increase customer dissatisfaction as well as increase employee work. In order to improve the quality of service beyond the simple function of receiving and serving orders, functions of recovery effort, fairness, empathy, responsiveness, and certainty of the process after service failure, such as serving employees, are also required. Accordingly, we assumed the type of failure of restaurant serving service as two internal and external factors, and developed a serving robot with a vocational ethics module to respond with a professional ethical attitude when the restaurant serving service fails. At this time, the expression and action of the serving robot were developed by adding a failure mode reflecting failure recovery efforts and empathy to the normal service mode. And by recruiting college students, we tested whether the service robot's response to two types of service failures had a significant effect on evaluating the robot. Participants responded that they were more uncomfortable with service failures caused by other customers' mistakes than robot mistakes, and that the serving robot's professional ethical empathy and response were appropriate. In addition, unlike the robot's favorability, the evaluation of the safety of the robot had a significant difference depending on whether or not a professional ethical empathy module was installed. A professional ethical empathy response module for natural service failure recovery using generative artificial intelligence should be developed and mounted, and the domestic serving robot industry and market are expected to grow more rapidly if the Korean serving robot certification system is introduced.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.136-151
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• 2014

To adapt to the constant change in the foodservice industry, dietary life is not only evolving variously and complicatedly, but eating-out styles are also changing fast. In this reality, this study is intended to examine the effects of marketing mix strategies on perceived value and loyalty in Korean restaurants. To achieve this, a survey was carried out to total 300 customers of Korean restaurants in Seoul from June 11 to June 30, 2013. The results were as follows. First, service experience, price and store image in Korean restaurants had a positive effect on the perceived value. Second, price, advertisement and store image in Korean restaurants had a positive effect on the loyalty. Third, the perceived value had a significant positive effect on the loyalty. As stated above, service experience, price and store image, and price, advertisement and store image in Korean restaurants had an effect on the perceived value and the loyalty, respectively. Also, the perceived value had an effect on the loyalty. Consequently, these factors are very useful as marketing mix strategies in Korean restaurants.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.192-203
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• 2015

Internal marketing has been considered as a way of achieving higher service quality and customer satisfaction in the service industry. However, the definitions and implementation of internal marketing varies by researcher. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore an explanatory internal marketing mix that can be utilized in the foodservice industry. Using a web-based survey method, a total of 405 usable samples were collected and used in the data analysis. Five internal marketing components (i.e., vision, development, reward, employee motivation, and internal communication) were adopted from previous literature, and the results indicated significant impacts of the internal marketing mix on employee job satisfaction.

• Journal of Service Research and Studies
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.25-35
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• 2018

Initiatives for corporate social responsibility (CSR) have often served as sources of competitive advantage in the business world. Although the adoption of CSR practices in the hotel industry continues to increase, empirical research on the relationship between them and financial performance in the industryremains scarce. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the effects of various dimensions of CSR on the financial performance of corporations in the U.S. hotel industry. Data include Kinder, Lydenburg & Domini social performance scores and Compustat data of hotels from 1991 to 2015 identified using a Standard Industrial Classification code. Results of ordinary least squares regression using Stata revealed that efforts toward CSR have significantly affected the financial performance of numerous hotels. Such findings can initiate discussions and inspire future research on CSR in the hospitality industry.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.456-468
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• 2008

This paper analyzes how the service quality affects customer satisfaction and loyalty, focusing on a franchise restaurant company 'Wonhalmoney Bossam'. The result shows that store locations and food cost of the menu, as an additional quality formation factor, influence customer satisfaction and loyalty rather than the main quality formation factors. This study strongly suggests the marketing preparation of menu price and the choice of locations are most significant as an additional factor. Therefore, Korean food restaurants should develop their marketing strategies from the customer's point of view, and reasonable price setting and menu selection with appropriate location will create customer satisfaction and revisit.