• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.273-287
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• 2013

Increased over time are the market size of coffee shops and customer demands for coffee. This paper aims to provide solutions for quality improvement in products and services of coffee shops through a case study. SERVQUAL is adopted and modified for the given problem to identify customer requirements for services of coffee shops. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is introduced as an effort to reflect customer requirements in engineering characteristics for products and services. This paper compares the market competitiveness of three coffee shops in a case study. This study also draws solutions for quality improvement in engineering characteristics for products and services by using QFD.