• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.37-54
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• 2003

As the life style of modern people is gradually being more scientific, up-to-date and specialized, food habit and food culture are a measure of cultural level of a country. Studies on consumer behavioral model show that food habit is closely related to consumer preference, changing life pattern and increasing family income. The purpose of this study was, accordingly, to define the impact of menu characteristics on customer menu selection. For that purpose, some attempts were made: First, discuss the theories on Italian food and customer purchasing behavior as a standard of analysis. Second, find out if there are any differences in customer menu-selection factors in hotel Italian restaurant. Third, make an empirical analysis of menu-selection factors in hotel Italian restaurant to suggest in which direction it should move forward. Fourth, analyze the relationship of demographic characteristics to menu-selection factors.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.169-185
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• 2002

Data collections were made from the Seoul five-star hotels'Italian restaurant to set goals on the quantity standardization by bringing up the issues from the analysis of their menus and portions. Brief of this research is as follows. The first, variations of Italian cuisine are significantly different from the region to region. The chef or cook must have general knowledge and understanding, and consider the ingredients and its cooking method. The second, for the understanding of fire Italian menu, languages used for the menu have to be in worldwide understandable languages and for the better understanding of Korean chefs, it should be also described in Korean. The third, for the cost controller and to reduce the cost, all food should be prepared in proper cooking method and set goal for the right portion size. The fourth, menu should be selected based on the customer preferences and the menu cycle change is adequate for four times a year. Italian food and dishes are prepared by above points with the standardized portion size and cooking method, more efficient and uniformed dishes will be provided to customers and customers will be fulfilled with the satisfaction.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.430-437
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• 2014

In the case of the hotel restaurant, the purpose of using the hotel affects largely to the type or the menu and nowadays it becomes essential to find out the characteristics of the hotels and make the strategy within them. Therefore, the purpose of this study is analyzing that even if the customers have the similar characteristics and preferences, they choose different menu because of the purpose of the visit, and the image of the hotel. And also this study gives basic data for the strategic menu management, the target of this research was the super deluxe Italian restaurant. Using the sales data of this restaurant, we analyzed the menu what people like most, and moreover, we analyzed the menu-choice behavior about each hotel. This study has a important role as a basic data that gives more profit to the restaurant, but also satisfaction to the customers.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.243-255
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to examine the menu selection attributes in Italian restaurants located in Jeonju area and analyze their customers' using patterns and favorite menu items in each menu section. The results are as follows. First, in terms of significance of choosing a menu item in Italian restaurants, the most important factors are defined as health management factors, service management factors, food management factors, and menu management factors. After the verification of satisfaction, there are significant differences in the health management factors. Second, in terms of Italian restaurant visiting patterns, the recognition level of Italian food was positive, number of visits per month was averagely once or twice a month, major companions were family members, main purpose was to having meals, and information of the food was acquired by word of mouth. Third, in each menu section, the most popular dishes were the one using mozzarella cheese in the antipasto, asparagus cream soup in the soup, carbonara in the pasta, the pizza topped with mozzarella cheese, salami, black olive, and tomato sauce in the pizza, fresh mozzarella cheese tomato salad in the salad, beef tenderloin steak and pan-fried halibut in the main dish, fresh fruits and tiramisu in the dessert. For future studies, there should be various researches and analyses for significant factors when selecting menu by each segment and group from the entire sample.

• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.111-115
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is an application of Lee's Menu Engineering (LME) method for menu analysis on the eight kinds of pizza selected from 17 kinds of pizza served by an Italian restaurant near by the Keimyung College University campus. The eliminated nine items were in the third quadrant or below the trend line. The LME method is more efficient than generally used methods such as the Miller, Kasavana & Smith, Uman, Pavesic and Merricks & Jones method. The LME method comprises reference lines and four quadrants created by x, y axes and its average values. The x and y axes comprise the sales ratio (MM%, percentage of the Menu Mix) and the weighted contribution margin (WCM%, percentage of the Weighted Contribution Margin) respectively. The obtained results are such that total sales increased by 1.59% from 58,747,200 won to 59,684,000 won, despite the decrease in sales volume. Total contribution margin also increased from 35,248,320 won to 35,810,400 won. The trend line also shows from y=0.9147x (R²=0.703) to y=0.9944x (R²=0.9893). These results indicate that the LME method is superior in practical applications.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.53-66
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• 2016

Present study confirmed the influential relationships among menus choices, IMC activities, customer satisfaction and revisit intention as perceived by Italian restaurant consumers to establish the marketing strategy. The results are as follows: The menu choice traits of the Italian restaurants have proved that menu quality, menu composition, and physical offer have significant influences on the customer satisfaction. In addition, all the factors of menu choice traits except physical offer have significant effect on the customer's revisit intention. Furthermore, the IMC activities of the Italian restaurants have been proved that the advertisement and the public relations have significant influence on the customer satisfaction and revisit intention, but there was no signigicant impact with personal selling. Last, the customer satisfaction has been identified as a critical antecedent of revisit intention in this study.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.35-56
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to found out that how well yield management, the element of Marketing mix possible to control, is composed and is conducted in strategic level in Italian Restaurant of domestic Hotel and that how much menu which is the element of Yield management contributes to growth of sales. As a result of this research, it is found out that all of three hotels have a different characteristic promotion hold by 10% in F/B. By that reason, out saucing is need to hotel management, but Restaurant should be activated continuously.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.629-637
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• 2006

This exploratory study is to analyze the status of star menus and suggest the development strategy of star menus in the western restaurants of the tourism hotels in Seoul. The data was collected from the chefs who have been working over 15-years in tourism hotels in Seoul by judgement sampling. The questionnaire was composed of Miller and Pavesic's 'Fifty tips for a successful menu' and Khan's 'The evaluation of menu item development', The 30-menu items were selected from the 1st survey on the menu items that were high in both popularity and contribution margin by menu engineering method. The selected menu items were analyzed by 14 lists: simplicity, ready availability of ingredients, quality, flavor, presentation, preparation, service method, nutrition quality, preference, profitability, serving temperature, descriptive copy of menu and publicity. As a result of the study, appetizer category was recorded the highest score by 4.09. Smoked salmon, Tomato and mozzarella cheese, Cream of mushroom, Cream of asparagus, French onion soup, Grilled beef tenderloin, Grilled rib-eye steak, Roasted lamb rack, King prawn, Seafood spaghetti, Chef's salad, Caesar salad, Organic salad, Fruit plate, Italian tiramisu and Yogurt ice cream were recorded high score. The development strategy of star menu is belows : the menu writer must consider the productivity, effectiveness, popularity and profitability, the regular customers want varieties and creativity in the menu and the operators have to include the star menu items in the set menu.