• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.65-80
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• 2003

The purpose of this study was to identify the college students'frequent usage groups of Western style restaurant in Ansan city. 200 samples among subjects were utilized for the analysis, and 150 samples were reserved far validating the discriminant function. Crosstabs, reliability analysis, stepwise discriminant analysis, and anova analysis were used for this study. The findings from this study were as follows. First, the result suggested that the four variables were important in discriminating the frequent usage group. Second, the result suggested that each discriminating variable between frequent usage groups was different significantly. Third, the result suggested that each usage situation between frequent usage groups was different significantly. Finally the study indicated the implications that could be provided some insight into the types of marketing strategies that can be successfully used by operators who manage Western style restaurants.

• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.157-167
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• 1997

This study was carried out to get an information on hotel Cook. We need to have a data, information and knowledge on Cook to improve a culinary art training program and working environment. This study was surveyed by 203 Cook to work for deluxe hotels at Bomun, Kyongju. The results were summarized as follows. 1. The great part (81.8%) of the Cook were a male, a half (53.2%) of the Cook were in their twenties or thirties. In academic background, 56.7％ of the Cook graduated from senior high school and in career background, 44.4% of the Cook had under 5 years at food enterprise. 2. The almost of the Cook (83.3%) worked with restaurant for 8∼9 hours/day and 66.3% of the Cook earned a million won in a month. The higher grade Cook worked longer hours and earned more money than a lower grade one. 3. The most popular workplace of the male Cook were Western style restaurant, but one of the female Cook were a Korean style restaurant. 4. The Cook have 0.9 unit Cook qualification per one person and the most popular Cook qualification were a Western style culinary art. 5. A half of the Cook asserted their expert skill in Western style Cook, and a third Cook asserted their expert skill in Korean style Cook. 6. A great part of the Cook was unsatisfied with pay (49.2%), work environment (16.6%), human relation (10.4%), and if they have a chance of workplace transfer, 38.8% of the Cook wished to manage their one restaurant. 7. 66.5% of the Cook had a workplace transfer more than a time. The higher grade Cook had more chance to change workplace. Almost of the Cook had no chance to study a culinary art at overseas.

• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.811-820
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to investigate the practices for management manual development of Good Restaurants in order to apply Green Safety Management technology. A total of 128 restaurants in Seoul according to restaurant size and style were analyzed by SPSS (window ver. 12.0). Exactly 38.3% of those surveyed purchased manicured vegetables and seafood that generates less garbage; Korean restaurants displayed the lowest frequency of purchasing preprocessed foodstuff, and Japanese restaurants had the most refrigerators and thermometers and kept the refrigeration temperature the lowest. Exactly 56.5% of the restaurants sold large and small amounts of main menu separately; Chinese restaurants displayed the highest rate while Western restaurants displayed the lowest. Furthermore, only 7.3% of the restaurants were willing to sell either large or small amounts of the same menu item. Japanese style menu had the most number of side dishes (6.1) while Western style menu had the lowest (1.8). Most of the restaurants were equipped with containers for leftovers (87.4%), but the rate of customers who took out leftovers significantly differed depending on the style of restaurant (p<0.05).

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.15-25
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• 2023

This study researches the restaurant industry in Seoul during the late 1940s. The research was based on the four major newspapers in Korea. The data included a total of 227 businesses with 164 non-fusion restaurants that served single-nation type food consisting of 101 Korean, 31 Western, 20 Japanese, and 12 Chinese. Some examples of South Korean dishes are Masan, Daegu, and Jeolla-do-style local foods. As for North Korean food, Pyongyang-style bulgogi, Naengmyeon, Hamheung-style janggukbap, and Gaejangguk were introduced frequently. Chinese restaurants that appeared were high-end places with Beijing-style cuisine. In the case of Japanese restaurants, they mostly had Sukiyaki with Joseon food served as well. Moreover, Western restaurants were fusioned with Japanese as in pork cutlet and curry rice. Others are comprised of "French Cuisine", "Indian curry rice", "Steak", and "Russian soup". This analysis indicates that foreign cuisines had actively entered the market.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.649-654
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• 2009

This study has a purpose of suggesting the basic data to achieve customer satisfaction by understanding the preference of each type of restaurant industry for the taste of customers in 20's referring to 8 images. In the preference for style of image in dining space, the participants responded that they prefer natural, modern and romantic image, and both male and female participants preferred natural image. Participants responded that they prefer natural, romantic and modern in sequence as their general preference for style of image in dining space, and male participants preferred modern and natural but female participants preferred romantic and natural. The survey that was conducted for different menus has suggested that the reasonable image for fast food is casual, hard casual and classic for hotel restaurant, casual for school restaurant, romantic for cafe, casual for western restaurant, simple for Japanese restaurant, classic and elegance for Chinese restaurant and natural for Korean restaurant. According to the result of the analysis of dining space image, factor 1 are called 'cold image (CI)' as they have simple and modern image, factor 2 are called 'soft image (SI)' as they have natural and romantic image, factor 3 are called 'warm image (WI)' as they have casual and elegance image and factor 4 are called 'hard image (HI)' as they have classic image.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.200-213
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• 2016

This study is to compare the differences in food quality between traditional Korean restaurants and Western-style restaurants, and then to identify the shortcomings as traditional Korean food prefered than western food. The object of this study is not only to provide the basic data of the domestic food service industry to enable the traditional food ingredients but also increase the sales produced in the farm and fishing economy. Western-style and traditional Korean restaurant food quality were subjected to an IPA analysis to understand the importance and satisfaction with each of them. The IPA analysis of Western-style restaurants and traditional Korean restaurants showed that using regional specialties ingredients, healthy food, and the number of dishes in a set menu were commonly included in the first quadrant. Menu planners of Korean restaurants in should consider the need to develop traditional food using regional ingredients prepared by a reputable chef from the region, and develop delicious healthy food using local specialties without artificial flavors. In addition, considering the demographic characteristics, the ideal food should target visitors in their 40s who with 300~400,000 to spend with friends or colleagues.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.1008-1017
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• 2010

The current study aims to determine the effects of descriptive menu labels on customers' purchase intentions in a restaurant setting. The research identified the importance of information provided by the menu labels as well as how the different types of descriptive menu labels affect patrons' purchase intentions in an American-style restaurant. The subjects evaluated in this study were foreign clients who frequented the Western cuisine restaurant in the United States Forces Korea. A total of 351 questionnaires were analyzed by factor analysis, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and regression analysis by means of SPSS 15.0. As a result, it was found that comprehension of menu and price were the most necessary pieces of information for customers encountering menu labels, and sensory type of descriptive menu labels was the most preferred. In addition, differences in the purchase intentions of customers in response to different types of descriptive menu labels suggests that there were more statistically significant differences in the perception of purchase intention among descriptive labels as compared to usual menu labels.

• Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.387-402
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• 2008

Today's restaurant is the space not just for eating, but enjoying the mood, communication space for social life, and leading trend. Therefore interior design is concerned with one of the most important role for creating unique atmosphere of restaurants. This study is aimed to analyze how to interior design elements affect the improvement of New York hip restaurant reputation, focusing on the importance of the establishment of unique trend. Through the case studies of New York hip restaurants, it is suggested that interior design is composed to not only significant different element, but also common design concept. It is mainly divided by 5 categories which is the Fusion mixed with eastern culture throughout the vision of the western, the New Baroque redefined tradition and modern thought, the Modern Classic created by importance of concise style and beauty of material, the High Concept used with new materials and technologies, and the Naturalism focused on spirit from nature and eco. Recently New York hip restaurant through the corporation work with star chef and star designer is developed to provide the enjoyable and anticipated spaces with strong theme and entertainments.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.247-269
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• 2000

The purpose of this study looks for the cooking directions to improve the quality of the finished product by examining the perceptions for cooking style of the finished product by cook at ten deluxe hotel in Seoul. For purpose of this purpose, this study focuss on five areas: (1) examining five different types of cooking styles and twenty one culinary factors, (2) examining the satisfaction rating of culinary factors, (3) measuring reliability of the culinary factors, (4) measuring the satisfaction rating of culinary factors. The study provides a generalized framework for improving the cooking of Korean food and Western food relative to the preception for the cooking style of each food by hotel restaurant cook. This general framework could be easily expanded to include additional factors that might be relevant for other restaurant cook or other menu items.

• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.397-405
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• 2003

The cleanness of Korean(n=292), Chinese(n=46), Japanese(n=114) and Western(n=74) styles restaurants in 25 districts in Seoul was evaluated in terms of kitchen area(6 criteria), handling of raw materials(3 criteria), hygiene practice for cook(1 criteria), treatment of wastes(2 criteria) and hall(2 criteria). The western-style restaurants were scored the highest points in all criteria. The other three restaurants were poorly evaluated compared with western-style ones in kitchen area, including cleanness of inside of the kitchen, hygiene practice, ventilation and working environment, drainage, and storage of utensils. The most critical criterion which represents the overall evaluation was the ventilation and working environment of the kitchen for Chinese, Japanese and Western-style restaurants, and was the cleanness of inside the kitchen for Korean-style restaurants.