• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.32-42
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to investigate how menu quality, human ${\cdot}$ amenity service quality, perceived risk affected quality ${\cdot}$ price menu value, social ${\cdot}$ emotion menu value and how quality ${\cdot}$ price menu value and social ${\cdot}$ emotion menu value influenced satisfaction. Also this study investigated how satisfaction affected loyalty. The model was tested in hotel restaurants settings of five-star hotels using a sample of customers visiting and enjoying menus in Daegu metropolitan city and Gyeongju city. Empirical results confirmed that not only do menu quality and human ${\cdot}$ amenity service quality increase quality ${\cdot}$ price menu value and social ${\cdot}$ emotion menu value but that perceived risk reduces social ${\cdot}$ emotion menu value. It was also found that significant antecedents of satisfaction were quality ${\cdot}$ price menu value and social ${\cdot}$ emotion menu value. Also, loyalty was also found to be a significant consequences of satisfaction.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.224-238
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• 2014

This study aimed to identify that the physical environment of a food service company has influenced on the perceived service quality, menu quality and customer satisfaction. To achieve the purpose of this study, it reviewed the theoretical background about the physical environment, the perceived service quality, the perceived menu quality and customer satisfaction. Moreover, this study conducted a corresponding empirical analysis. For the empirical analysis, a questionnaire was given to a total of 275 regular restaurant customers at Busan area. The results of the empirical analysis were shown as follows. 1) The components of physical environment of a service company are the attractiveness, cleanliness, space & convenience and the ambient factor of physical environment. 2) For the attractiveness of the physical environment, cleanliness and the ambience factors of the physical environment have influenced on the perceived service quality and menu quality. 3) The perceived service quality has influence on the perceived the menu quality. 4) The perceived service quality and the menu quality have influence on the customer satisfaction.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.12 no.1 s.28
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• pp.173-187
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• 2006

This study explored the quality of menu and customer value and satisfaction in Italian restaurants. From the result of the research, the menu and the quality of hotel restaurants had an important effect on the customer satisfaction, and the menu and its quality were closely related to each other. Specially, the price of the menu had an effect on the customer satisfaction directly. The customer value has a more direct effect than Italian menu and the importance of the menu perceived by the customers in Italian restaurants had a relatively less effect than the importance of menu information. In the result of the factor analysis, the more the menu was perceived appropriately, the better the customer value was. It was approved that Italian menu had positive (+) influence on the customer satisfaction. The more the quality of Italian cooking was perceived, the higher the customer value was. And the higher the customer value was, the better customer satisfaction was.

• 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.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.299-312
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to investigate how the price levels influence the relationships between consumers' perceived quality, risk, and value and purchase intention of restaurant menu. It analyzed questionnaire data from 406 consumers who had purchase experience of boned rib restaurant menu during the last 6 month period. The results showed that perceived risk had a negative impact on perceived quality and perceived risk had a negative impact on purchase intention. In addition, perceived quality had a positive impact on perceived value. However, perceived quality didn't have an impact on purchase intention and perceived risk didn't have an impact on perceived value.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.650-657
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• 2009

This study was designed to determine the effects of meat country-of-origin on the perceived quality, perceived risk, perceived value, and purchase intension of restaurant menu items. A total of 237 university students in Seoul were used in the final statistical analyses, which included factor analysis, ANOVA and Duncan's test. The results were as follows: First, in the case of perceived quality, the participants gave higher evaluations of restaurant menu items better when the origin of the foodstuff was Korea. Second, the effects of origin on perceived value were not statistically significant. Third, the effect of origin on the purchase intension of fried chicken was statistically significant, but the effects of origin on the purchase intension of boned rib and fillet were not statistically significant. Lastly, the limitations of this study and suggestions for further research are presented.

• Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.183-190
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• 2004

This study was designed to identify how customers considered menu selection attributes on menu choice, and so the instrument for measuring that question was developed and menu selection behavior types were analyzed by customers' characteristics. Cronbach's alpha to assess the internal reliability of the developed scales was 0.8361, which indicated to be highly reliable. Construct validity was assessed by principal components factor analysis with a Varimax rotation to identify underlying dimensions of menu selection and then four factors explaining 55.618% of the total variance were found. These factors were labeled as 'quality of meals', 'attractiveness of meals', 'healthfulness of meals' and 'variety of meals', respectively. As a result of analysis on menu selection factors, 'quality of meals'(3.82 out of 5) was the highest consideration followed by 'variety of meals'(3.51), 'healthfulness of meals'(3.49) and 'attractiveness of meals'(3.34), so that menu marketing approaches in the perspective of quality of meals would do lead customers' selection rates, customer satisfaction and then sales highly. Frequent visitor selected menu indifferently but customers who were interested in food and menu highly, who perceived meals' quality highly, and who were satisfied with overall foodservice did with concern. On the basis of these results of study for the target of food court-style B ＆ I foodservice operation, which was introduced as an ideal model in future foodservice market by the concept of 'customer's selection right', the following study related with customers' meal patterns and perception of foodservice by menu selection attributes would be able to predict the chances for success of food court-style foodservice operations.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.596-605
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to measure consumers' recognition of service quality in Korean restaurants, and to compare the differences in perceived service quality according to consumers' general characteristics. Self-administrated questionnaires were completed by 1,494 subjects and data were analysed by frequency, factor, reliability, and subjected to t-test and one-way ANOVA. The major results of this study can be outlined as follows: Factor analysis on perceived service quality resulted in 4 factors: staff service (5 variables), menu quality (4 variables), price and value (4 variables) and atmosphere and convenience (5 variables). Cronbach's alpha values for the reliability were over 0.8 for all the factors. The mean value in the elicited factors was indicated to be in order of menu quality ($4.73{\pm}1.19$), atmosphere and convenience ($4.57{\pm}1.09$), price and value ($4.55{\pm}1.15$), and staff service ($4.46{\pm}1.12$). Also, a significant difference was shown in service quality, which was perceived according to consumers' general characteristics. A higher mean value in perceived service quality was shown in women than in men, in the older than in the younger, in people with a high frequency of visiting Korean restaurants than those who do so with low frequency, and in people with high cost expenditure when visiting than those with low cost expenditure. In terms of region, the mean value in perceived service quality was significantly lower for consumers in the Gwangju region than in other regions.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.987-996
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• 2010

The purpose of this study was to measure customers' perception of the service quality of Korean restaurants and then compare differences in perceived service quality according to customer nationality. Self-administered questionnaires were completed by 2812 subjects, and data were analyzed by frequency, chi-square, t-test, one-way ANOVA, factor, reliability, cluster, and discriminant analysis. Results of the study were as follows. The factor analysis of perceived service quality produced four factors, employee service (5 variables), menu quality (4 variables), price & value (4 variables), and physical environment (4 variables). Cronbach's alpha values for reliability were over 0.8 for all factors. Further, a significant difference was observed in service quality, which was perceived according to customer nationality. A higher mean value of perceived service quality was held by foreigners when compared to Koreans. Especially, the mean value of perceived service quality was significantly low for all items for Japanese compared to foreigners. Cluster analysis divided subjects into two groups based on attitude toward service quality of Korean restaurants: an unfavorable group and favorable group. These two groups differed from each other in general characteristics as well. Limitations and future research directions are also discussed.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.167-174
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• 2020

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: With the advances in technologies, self-service kiosks at foodservice operations are becoming a new way of service provision. This study examined the relationships among the menu information quality, nutrition information quality, technology acceptance characteristics, and customer behavioral intention toward the kiosks in fast food restaurants. SUBJECTS/METHODS: A survey with a self-administered method was distributed online and offline. The sample consisted of customers who had used the kiosks at fast food restaurants in the last six months prior to the survey. The study hypotheses were tested by applying structural equation modeling. RESULTS: Structural equation modeling revealed the positive impacts of menu information quality and nutrition information quality, technology acceptance characteristics, and behavioral intention toward kiosks at fast food restaurants. On the other hand, one hypothesis (Hypothesis 4) on the impact of nutrition information quality on the perceived usefulness was rejected. CONCLUSION: The study is the first to investigate nutrition and menu information at foodservice kiosks and relate them to technology acceptance. The study is very timely and adequate in the time of the 4^th industrial revolution. The critical importance of the presentation of nutrition information and menu information at the kiosks at fast food restaurants was verified. The academic and industrial implications of the study findings were discussed.