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Effect of Health-Orientated Menu for Restaurant Customers on LOHAS, Herbal Food, and Customer Satisfaction (외식소비자의 건강지향 메뉴가 LOHAS와 약선 음식 및 고객만족에 미치는 영향)

  • Choi, Sung-Woong;Jin, Yang-Ho
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.96-109
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    • 2010
  • As a life cycle changed and people who eat out rapidly increased, the imbalance of nutrition through eating out has been suggested as a risk factor for chronic diseases. This has cast light on health-oriented menu for restaurant customers, raising it as a new social issue in the food service and health industry. In light of this situation, this thesis focuses on the relationship among health-oriented menu for restaurant customers, herbal foods and its influence on customer satisfaction to provide useful information on LOHAS and herbal foods. Also, it investigates their vegetable diet, including eating herbal food, and Buddhist temple foods which are in close relationship with health. The results are as follows. First, health orientation had a significant impact on LOHAS. Second, health-oriented menu proved to give significantly positive influence on customer satisfaction by introducing herbal foods. Third, LOHAS gave a significant impact on herbal foods, and by herbal foods, it gave positive influence on customer satisfaction. Finally, the hypothesis which said herbal food has a significant impact on customer satisfaction also had significant influence.

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Family Restaurant Patrons' Perception on Nutrition Information of Restaurant Menus (패밀리 레스토랑 고객의 메뉴 영양정보에 관한 인식 연구)

  • Chang, Hye-Ja;Kim, Tae-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.270-278
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    • 2003
  • The purposes of this study were to investigate the customers' perception on nutrition information provided on a family restaurant menu, to examine customers' intention to use the nutrition information when eating out if nutrition information would be provided, and to identify what kinds of nutrient information the customers want. A total of 265 respondents were answered. Female was sixty-six percents, and eighty-four percent of the respondents was less than thirty-five years old. The patrons' perception about nutrition information on the menu showed the level of 2.5 points out of 5 points, which pointed out that family restaurant patrons were not satisfied with receiving nutritional information related to the menu. The customers perceived that restaurants had responsibilities for providing nutritional information about menu items. Sixty-six percent of respondents showed a positive intention to the question item about how much the customer would use nutritional information provided on the menu. The customers, who were female (p<0.05), who had a good health status, who showed higher interest on weight control (p<0.01), and who were health-oriented (p<0.01), showed the higher intention to use nutritional information. Nutrient information in which the customers were interested strongly was a fat content, followed by cholesterol content and calorie information. According to the trends of eating out, preferring family restaurants, and increasing interests in a healthful menu, nutrition information demand in restaurant operations would be increased rapidly in the near future. Providing nutrition information at the point of menu choice might result in the improvement of customers' nutritional and health status by encouraging proper dietary habits of patrons as well as providing nutritional education. Therefore, it is recommended that government and restaurant firms should recognize the importance of nutrition information and make strategic plans for the future.

A Study of Activation plan for Korean restaurant business -Based on Literature of Preceding Studies- (한식당 영업활성화 방안 연구 - 선행연구 문헌을 토대로 -)

  • 계수경;진영일
    • Journal of Applied Tourism Food and Beverage Management and Research
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.135-151
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    • 2005
  • In accordance with changes in life style, people's desire to eat out is getting changed in their preferring factors from whether they can buy food they want to eat fast and easily to mood of the dining space, content and quality of service, hygiene condition of restaurant, quiet location and surrounding circumstance, and discount coupon and price destruction. In addition, consumers who begin to recognize the seriousness of environmental pollution prefer health-oriented food. On the other hand, excessive presence of competitors, growing personnel expense, increasing expenditure in accordance with swelling price of rent and material expenditure, increase of tax burden, decrease of income because of credit card service charge and high expected level by consumers make it difficult for restaurant's owners to manage restaurant business. Therefore, this study purposes to establish development of menu from the consumer's and the supplier's point of view and propose how to develop menu aiming at convenience, health and diversity.

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A Study on the Influence of Consumer Lifestyle on Consumer's Selection of Bakery Cafe Attributes: Focusing the Age Group of 20s and 30s (라이프스타일에 따른 베이커리 카페 선택속성 및 이용행태에 관한 연구 - 20~30대 소비자를 중심으로 -)

  • Hong, Wan-Soo;Kim, Young-Sic
    • Korean journal of food and cookery science
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.721-729
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    • 2012
  • This paper aimed to investigate the influence of consumer lifestyle on consumer selection of bakery cafe attributes. Data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire by 403 random consumers between the ages 20s and 30s in several bakery cafes in Seoul and Gyonggi area. Different methods of statistical analysis had been used such as frequency analysis, factor analysis, k-means clustering analysis, cross tabulation, one way ANOVA and Duncan's multiple range test with SPSS for Window 13.0 package. First, when analyzing the 16 questions of comsumer lifestyles, four factors were extracted: 'dining out-oriented factor', 'achievement-oriented factor', 'brand-oriented factor', and 'health-oriented factor'. Second, the respondents were divided into three groups by k-means cluster analysis: no interest group, dining-out & value oriented group, and health-brand oriented group. Third, consumer's bakery cafe attributes were categorized into five factors including 'food', 'convenience and image', 'store promotion', 'positive dining experience', and 'menu & merchandises'. Finally when analyzing the differences in the selection of bakery cafe attributes according to consumer's lifestyles, it showed a significant differences.

A Study of Activation plan for Korean restaurant business -Based on Literature of Preceding Studies- (한식당 영업활성화 방안 연구 - 선행연구 문헌을 토대로 -)

  • Gye, Su-Gyeong;Jin, Yeong-Il
    • Proceedings of the Korea Hospitality Industry Research Society Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.109-122
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    • 2005
  • In accordance with changes in life style, people's desire to eat out is getting changed in their preferring factors from whether they can buy food they want to eat fast and easily to mood of the dining space, content and quality of service, hygiene condition of restaurant, quiet location and surrounding circumstance, and discount coupon and price destruction. In addition, consumers who begin to recognize the seriousness of environmental pollution prefer health-oriented food. On the other hand, excessive presence of competitors, growing personnel expense, increasing expenditure in accordance with swelling price of rent and material expenditure, increase of tax burden, decrease of income because of credit card service charge and high expected level by consumers make it difficult for restaurant's owners to manage restaurant business. Therefore, this study purposes to establish development of menu from the consumer's and the supplier's point of view and propose how to develop menu aiming at convenience, health and diversity.

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The Job Analysis of Cooks of School Foodservice (학교급식 조리사의 직무분석)

  • 한경수;채영철;김숙희;표은영
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.35 no.10
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    • pp.1104-1119
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    • 2002
  • This study was to analyze the job of cooks of school foodservice. The purpose of this study were to examine importance of the present job and future-oriented job of cooks in school foodservice, and to compare the present job performance time with the future-oriented job performance time. The questionnaire was delveloped by focus group and pilot test. The work sampling was choosed to verify the objectivity of job analysis. The statistical software package was SAS 10.0. ‘Menu Management’, ‘Procurement’, ‘Receiving and Inventory control’ and ‘Cooking facilities Management’ of the present job was perceived significantly more important than the future-oriented job. ‘Procurement’, ‘Receiving and inventory control’, ‘distribution’ and ‘dishwashing’ of the future-oriented job was perceived significantly longer than the present job performance time. This study will be used to develop job specification for the cooks of school foodservice.

Effects of Selection Attributes of Medicinal Food on Customer Satisfaction and Purchase Attitude in Jinju Area (진주지역 약선요리 선택속성이 고객만족과 구매태도에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Ji-Yong;Kim, Kyoung-Myo;Hwang, Young-Jeong
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.268-278
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this research is to examine the effects of selection attributes of medicinal food on customer satisfaction and purchase attitude in Jinju area. A survey was conducted to 300 people who live in Jinju area, and 252 completed copies of questionnaire was returned. Statistical package 'SPSS WIN 20.0' was used to analyze the sample data, and the result of the analysis is as follows. First, for the hypothesis, 'selection attributes of medicinal food have a significant effect on satisfaction,' food quality, health food and services have a significant effect on customer satisfaction. Second, customer satisfaction with medicinal food has a significant effect on revisit. Third, customer satisfaction leads to recommendation to others. In conclusion, this research shows that medicinal food restaurants in Jinju area should provide healthy food menu, high-quality food and high-class services, which could be effective to promote the specialty of medicinal food restaurants for costumers.

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Needs Assessment of Nutrition Education Program for Day Care Providers (탁아기관의 교사 및 원장을 위한 영양교육훈련 프로그램의 개발 필요성 평가)

  • 양일선
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.639-650
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    • 1993
  • The purpose of this study was to assess the nutrition education and training needs as a basis for program planning for day care providers. A sample of 239 day care teachers responded to a questionnare assessing demographic characteristics, nutrition education experiences, and measuring the level of basic knowledge of food & nutrition. Menu planning was added to the questionnarie for 158 day care center directors. The results of this study can be summarized as follows: 1) majority(92.5%) of day care teachers and 74.1% of day care directors were interested in receiving nutrition education and training programs. 2) The topics generating the greatest interest for day care teachers were good food habits, food preparation & meal planning and food sanitation. 3) As a result of measuring the level of basic nutrition knowledge, day care teachers possessed the moderate amount of knowledge about five basic food groups, cholesterol, protein containing food, fat, while they possessed the poor knowledge about vitamin and calorie. 4) Day care teachers and directors possessed a certain level of knowledge about what the good snacks are and how to teach the unbalanced diet oriented children, while they possessed a low level of knowledge about children's nutrition requirement.

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Korean Restaurant Satisfaction according to the Food-related Lifestyle -Focused on Japanese and Chinese (식생활 라이프스타일에 따른 한식당 만족도 -일본인과 중국인 중심으로)

  • Kim, Jin-Hee;Jeon, Min-Sun;Park, Dae-Seop;Kim, Soo-Min;Paik, Jin-Kyung;Hong, Wan-Soo
    • Korean journal of food and cookery science
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.617-624
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    • 2013
  • Korean Food Globalization has been launched as a tool of civil ambassador and the high value-oriented industry. According to department of statistics in 2012, the trend of Korean food globalization from international visitors of Chinese and Japanese has grown. Hence, this study is purposed to identify the level of satisfaction of Chinese and Japanese consumers based on their food-related lifestyle. The survey was conducted by interviewing 403 Chinese and Japanese visitors who have experienced Korean food. The survey questionnaire was composed of 3 parts of demographic information, food-related lifestyle, and satisfaction of Korean restaurant. As factor analysis results, 3 factors were yielded for the food-related lifestyle factors-a eat-out preferred group, a health preferred group, and a taste preferred group, and 3 factors were generated for Korean restaurant satisfaction-hygiene and service, menu, and food quality. For cluster analysis, 3 clusters were identified as follows: high interested in food itself, health interested, and taste interested. Female appears to be significantly different in terms of 3 clusters than male. Nationality shows that Chinese consumers showed a high interest in food itself whereas Japanese consumers were high interested in health. With regard to Korean restaurant satisfaction, service appeared to be important in Chinese consumers while Japanese consumers showed a higher mean value on serving size, price, and nutrition. The findings concluded that by understanding the nature of food-related lifestyle of international visitors, marketing strategies can better meet visitors' expectations and increase their satisfaction with Korean restaurants.

Recognition and Preference of University Students on Korean Food in Australia (호주 대학생들의 한식에 대한 인식과 선호도 연구)

  • Min, Kye-Hong
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.92-102
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study is to research recognition and preference of university students in Brisbane on Korean food and provide basic data for globalization of Korean food. For analysis methods, frequency analysis and T-test were conducted. The period of the research was from May 3 to June 18, 2010. The study result are summarized as follows: First, they recognize Korean food as delicious, hot and spicy, healthy, using exotic ingredients, having various menu, and using grains and vegetables as main ingredients. For the difference in recognition of Korean food, there were significant differences in the items of: 'Korean food is good for health,' 'There are many fermented Korean foods' and 'Korean food is grains and vegetables oriented.' Second, for preferred taste, sweet taste was the most liked one and bland taste was disliked the most. The most preferred dishes are in the order of bulgogi, bibimbap, kimchi jjigae and gimbap. For expected effects, this study will be helpful for the government and educational institutions related to Korean food and restaurateurs who service Korean restaurants in Australia to establish strategies for globalization and business sales of Korean food.

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