• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.140-152
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• 2004

This study investigates and analyzes the diversity of menu in military meal services that are recognized by the soldiers who are familar with meal services, and suggests the implications on the results of the analysis. For the ranks of respondents in terms of demographic features, the sergeants and corporals were 43.2%(186) and 29.7%(128) apiece. It was identified that the diversity of menu and significant influences as 57.5%. Thus, it is necessary to diversity the menus more than the present menus to increase the satisfaction of new generation on military meal services. The most influential factor on the diversity of menu was the hard-boiled food as 29.9% among 15 items. Therefore, the first measure to intensify the satisfaction of soldiers on meal services is to diversity the hard-boiled food. Accordingly, this measure will contribute to relieve the most biggest complaints on the diversity of menu in military meal services. For this purpose, it is recommended to replace the kitchen work system consisted of kitchen polices with the non-officer system enabling the long-term service. The kitchen polices are transferred to the first reserve list when they are accustomed to their duties because the period of service is limited under the present kitchen police system. Therefore, the present kitchen police system has the problem that it can't overcome the limit in terms of the quality of meal service.

• Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.449-465
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• 2023

Objectives: This study aimed to analyze menu patterns and food group diversity in daycare centers managed by the Center for Children's Foodservice Management in South Korea. Methods: Data from 18 Center for Children's Foodservice Management centers across various provinces (excluding Jeju Island) were analyzed. We examined 8,796 meals served in February, May, August, and December 2021, focusing on seasonal lunch and snack menus for children aged 3-5. Foods were categorized into 19 groups for lunch and 21 for snacks. The frequency of food groups and dietary patterns were assessed using the Dietary Diversity Score. Analyses were conducted using Excel 2016 and IBM SPSS Statistics version 28. Results: Most lunch menus (89%) included five menu items, with a ratio of grain, meat, and vegetables at 88%. Snack menus typically had one item (57%), with significantly more items in the afternoon compared to the morning (P < 0.001). Regarding snack patterns, 75.2% of morning snacks and 61.1% of afternoon snacks contained only one solid food and drink (P < 0.001). Fruit and milk (22.4%) was the most prevalent pattern in morning snacks, while grain and milk (31%) dominated afternoon snacks (P < 0.001). Only 48% of daycare center menus (all snacks and lunch) included all five food groups (grain, meat, vegetables, fruit, and milk). Notably, only 83% included milk and 57% included fruit. Conclusions: These findings highlight the need to improve food variety and diversity in the Center for Children's Foodservice Management-managed daycare center menus. Developing more detailed guidelines for menu structure and food composition is crucial to ensure children receive balanced and diverse nutrition.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.478-489
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• 2011

Student and dietitian reactions to a multicultural food service menu were studied. Food habits in a multicultural family could delay the acculturation of the children to traditional Korean food and could cause the isolation of children from the community. Also, Korean students need to be exposed to other cultures and foods because it can be a challenge to eat novel foods when students grow up. To help both multicultural and Korean children adjust to new foods, a multicultural menu was included in a school's food service. Students regarded the multicultural menu as access to another culture, but they felt that improvement of the food quality and menu diversity were required. The degree of satisfaction with the food quality, appearance, freshness, temperature, and menu diversity were all moderate. The multicultural menu was served as a single menu item or a combination menu item. The main dish single items - pasta, jajangmyeon, onigiri, hamburgers, rice and curry, kaupatmu, kaupatkung, and donburi - were liked, but nasi goreng was liked only moderately. The soup - based dish single item, tempura soba, was liked, while tomyum was disliked. The side dish single items - tangsuyook, Japanese donkatsu, baked sausage and potatoes, tandoori chicken, chicken britto, Vienna schnitzels, tender tortillas, and fried chicken wings - were liked. The desserts single items-sandwiches, pineapples, waffles, pizza, bread with strawberry jam, mangoes, and tacoyaki - were liked. The combination menus - Italian, Indian, and American - were liked, but the southeast Asian menu was the least favored. Acceptance of combination and single menu items were similar. Male students liked multicultural menu items more than female students in all categories. Approximately 60% of dietitians had experience serving the single menu items for multicultural food service. The appropriate serving times were twice per month. Dietitians guessed that 80% of the students liked the multicultural menu. The dietitians preferred serving American or Chinese foods to southeast Asian food. There were two difficulties in serving the multicultural menu, which were voiced as as lack of skill in cooking the items and improper cooking utensils and tableware for the items. Despite all the difficulties, the dietitians served the multicultural menu because it provided menu diversity, rather than for educational reasons.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.47 no.6
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• pp.443-451
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• 2014

Purpose: This study was conducted for analysis of menu pattern and food diversity of snack menus of child care centers in order to provide preliminary data for establishment of related guidelines for snack menus for child care centers. Methods: Data from 630 snack menus (350 for morning snacks and 280 for afternoon snacks) of March, 2013 from 14 Child Care Information Centers in Seoul provided for child care centers were analyzed. In addition, the menu pattern and food diversity of morning snack menus were compared with those of afternoon snack menus. Results: Differences in menu pattern and food diversity were observed between morning and afternoon snack menus. The majority of snack menus (66.8%) included two menu items and the numbers of menu items of afternoon snack menus were significantly larger than those of morning snack menus. The percentages of "Grains (G)" and "Grains (G) + Milk (D)" patterns were higher in snack menu (G: 18.9%, G+D: 17.1%). Approximately one third of snack menus were composed of only one food group. In addition, 45.6 % of all snack menus comprised milk and only 23.0% included fruits. Conclusion: These results demonstrated the need for improvement in food composition and diversity of snack menus provided by Child Care Information Centers for child care centers. Therefore, to ensure children's intake of nutritionally balanced snacks, it will be necessary to establish more detailed guidelines for the menu pattern and food composition in snack menus for child care centers.

• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.330-334
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• 2010

This study was performed to investigate the influence of seafood education on students' preferences and perceptions towards seafood menu items provided by school foodservice. The 62 representative menu items were selected from the complete menus provided by 10 high schools located in the Daegu Kyungpook area. Five hundred students were surveyed and 484 questionnaires were analyzed. The preference ($3.25{\pm}0.92$) of seafood menu items was not sufficiently high. The preference order of seafood menu items was rice > noodle > deep fry > grill> stir fry > seasoned dish > soup/stew > steam > pan fry > braise > fermented fish. Conversely, the most frequently provided menu items were soup/stew (31.34%), braise (18.06%), stir fry (15.61%), and seasoned dish (14.83%); the results showed no significant correlation between students' preference and the frequency with which the items were provided. Seafood education positively influenced the students' preference (p<0.001) and perceptions of the seafood acceptability (p<0.01), nutritional value (p<0.05), menu variety (p<0.05), diversity of cooking methods (p<0.001), cleanliness (p<0.001), and leftover amounts (p<0.01). However, more than half the students participating in this study have never received any type of education on seafood. Therefore, a practical program for seafood education should be developed to promote seafood consumption among young students.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.32 no.8
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• pp.967-973
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• 1999

The purpose of this study was to analyze sensory evaluation, to assess visual serving size and plate waste estimates of daily menu, and the identify customer expectation, perception and satisfaction. Questionnaires of sensory evaluation, serving size and were waste were developed and hand-delivered to 2,520 people. A total of 2,255 questionnaires were usable: a 89.5% response rate. Customer satisfaction questionnaires were handed out to 700 customers: (100 each at seven operations). A total of 551 were returned completed (78.7%). The data was analyzed using the SAS package program for Descriptive Analysis, t-test and ANOVA. The result of sensory evaluation showed that 'taste' was 3.20, 'freshness' 3.17, 'temperature' 3.25, 'texture' 3.15, 'appearance' 3.12, 'overall evaluation' 3.21, so these were little higher than 「normal」, that is 3.0. There was positive correlation among 'taste', 'freshness', 'temperature', 'texture', 'appearance' and 'overall evaluation'(p<.001). Serving size score was 2.97 and plate waste was 4.87, thus plate waste percentage was about 22-33%. As the result of customer expectation, perception and satisfaction of menu quality, characteristics. Customer satisfaction was defined as the difference expectation and perception and customer perceptions in theis survey were lower than expectation, thus this result implied customers dissatisfied in all menu quality characteristics. IPA analysis showed that 'diversity of menu selection' and 'menu price' was included in A area 'Focus here'.

• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.641-648
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• 2010

This study attempted to estimate the dietary quality and the food diversity by analyzing the military foodservice menu. To evaluate the dietary quality, an analysis of NAR(Nutrient Adequacy Ratio) and MAR(Mean Adequacy Ratio) were carried out. DDS(Dietary Diversity Score), DVS(Dietary Variety Score) and DMGFV(Dairy Product, Meat, Grain, Fruit, Vegetable group) were used for assessment of food diversity. A Can-pro 3.0 and an excel were used for dietary data analysis and SPSS 12.0 program was used for statistical analysis. The results were as follows. The NAR of the 9 nutrients was above the RDAs and MAR was $1.71{\pm}0.19$. For 19 days(61.3%), DDS was 5 and for 12 days(38.7%), DDS was 4. The average of DDS was $4.6{\pm}0.25$. The Fruit & vegetable groups were not often served compared to other groups and especially fresh fruit were not given enough. The average of DVS and DVSS were $22.48{\pm}0.61$ and $29.26{\pm}0.66$ each. The most frequent food pattern was 'DMGFV=11111' which was served for 19 days(61.3%) and second frequent pattern 'DMGFV=11101' was served for 12 days(38.7%). DDS was significantly associated with Vit. C intake and DVS and DVSS was significantly related to Vit. $B_1$ and Vit. $B_2$ intakes. The MAR was significantly correlated with only DVSS. It could be interpreted that DVSS is a useful parameter for evaluating nutrient intakes as previous studies verified. Based on these findings, it can be said that military foodservice was provided with adequate nutrition and diversity. Menu was well composed of various foods which met the nutrition standards, but should provide more fresh fruits for adequate provision of vitamins and minerals.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.69-79
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• 2014

How the menu selection attributes and menu design attributes influence the customer value and customer satisfaction is a major study object. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, a questionnaire survey was conducted to the consumers of 4 Western restaurants. Selecting 223 copies, the diversity of menu and convincibility of menu turned out to be influential on the customer value. In the Hypothesis 2, menu selection attributes turned out to be influential on the customer satisfaction. In the Hypothesis 3, menu design turned out to be influential on the customer value. In the Hypothesis 4, menu design turned out to be influential on the customer satisfaction. In the Hypothesis 5, the customer value turned out to be influential on the customer satisfaction. The study shows that the importance of menu selection and menu design is a significant in regards to customer value and customer satisfaction.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.23 no.7
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• pp.183-193
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• 2017

The present study was conducted at a night market in the Ulsan region, with the purpose of analyzing the impact of menu quality at night markets on customers' perceived value and revisit intention. The study surveyed 323 visitors to the night market, and analyzed the results using the SPSS 18.0 statistics program. The results were the following. Firstly, the results of the exploratory factor analysis regarding menu quality at the night market showed 5 main factors, to a statistically valid and reliable degree: hygiene, price, diversity, originality, and taste. Secondly, it was found that menu quality exerts a positive influence on perceived value, with taste having the biggest influence on hedonic value, and price having the biggest influence on utilitarian value. Thirdly, it was found that menu quality further exerts a positive impact on the revisit intention, with price having the greatest influence in this regard. Fourthly, perceived value was found to have a positive influence on the revisit intention, with utilitarian value having a greater effect than hedonic value in this regard.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.549-556
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• 2014

This study aimed to determine consumer satisfaction according to selection attributes of specialized coffee shops and also understand the effects of consumer satisfaction on recommendation intention and revisit intention. Through positive analysis, the study produced the following results. In the factor analysis of selection attributes of specialized coffee shops, there were six factors: 'quality', 'brand image', 'economic feasibility', 'menu diversity', 'the atmosphere and convenience of the shop', and 'service'. Among these factors, 'brand image', 'economic feasibility', and 'menu diversity' were found to exert a significant influence on consumer satisfaction. Second, consumer satisfaction had a significant influence on recommendation intention and revisit intention. Third, consumer intention to revisit specialized coffee shops showed a significant influence on recommendation intention.