• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.538-547
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• 2005

Customer needs in food service industry is not only demanding high quality product(food), but also high quality service. Therefore, how to provide high quality service based on customers expectation, and how to design the service systems by food service industry or restaurants are important task. This study is service quality of Korean restaurant customers, it aims analyzes factors influences service quality of food service industry based on the perception of pork-belly specialty restaurants customers. It is expected that there is significant difference according to gender concerning level of satisfaction in service quality of food service industry as a result of analyzing the level of satisfaction for frequency of eating out relatively to the purpose of eating out, and researching the level of satisfaction for service quality of food service industry after visiting the restaurant. Based on such results, solutions that can cope with social, cultural and economical environment of food service industry are suggested. Selection of food service business, samples, and purpose of eating out, which are limits of this study, needs to be studied continuously in the future after diversifying and segmentation.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.625-633
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• 2004

The Food-Service industry, especially the family restaurant so called 'people industry' have a high dependence on human resources. In spite of this importance of human resources, most family restaurant are facing lots of problems such as short of capital, weak financial support, not efficient interpersonal communication and so on. Under this circumstance like that in family restaurant, in which there is a higher importance of human resources to other industries as they are all front-line employers in response to customer demands, the studies on possible factors that affect the employees to be satisfied are highly required. This study was conducted to find out what possible factors affect the employees to be more satisfied, how they affect the employees and what relationship exists between the employee's job satisfaction. This study was intended to develop the most efficient people management in family restaurant. The study was followed up with factor analysis and correspondent analysis as well as regression analysis in order to find out the difference among the individual characteristic variables and to verify the hypotheses.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.228-245
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• 2012

This study attempts to investigate the relationships among psychological traits, environment, attitude on education, satisfaction with education, and learning transfer of restaurant entrepreneurship education. The samples of this study were selected from the restaurant entrepreneurs who were running restaurants after having taken the restaurant entrepreneurship education in Seoul and Kyonggi Province. Three hundred and eighty nine copies of the questionnaire, with a 86.4% response rate from a judgmental sample of 450 restaurant entrepreneurs, were utilized to study the relationships between research constructs. SPSS (11.5 version) and AMOS 5.0 were employed to analyze the uni-dimensionality of research concepts and reliability tests, and structural equation modeling was employed to verify the research hypotheses. Need for achievement and ambiguity tolerance, and environment showed a positive effect on attitude to education. Attitude to education was related positively with satisfaction with education, and satisfaction with education showed a positive effect on learning transfer of the restaurant entrepreneurship education. The managerial implications of these results were also examined.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.12-19
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• 2014

The purpose of this research was to study the affects of atmosphere and convenience attributes on restaurant selection of customers aged between 50 to 60, referred to as new seniors. A survey was conducted with questions including convenience and atmosphere attributes (5 factors, 24 questions), respondents' dining-out behavior (6 questions), and general characteristics. For the analysis, SPSS 20.0 was used for the frequency analysis, factor analysis and ANOVA. The findings of this research are as follows : First, new seniors considered cleanliness (4.23) as the most important factor when choosing a restaurant. Convenient facility (3.89), ease of use (3.68), atmosphere (3.33) and children amenities (3.18) followed. Second, the importance of factors were compared according to the general characteristics. Based on gender, cleanliness and convenient facility showed a significant difference (p<0.05). Depending on whether they help raise their grandchildren and household type, the difference of ease of use and children amenities showed significance (p<0.05). Third, the importance of factors were compared based on their dining-out behavior. According to the average visits made to restaurants and the average payment per person, the difference of cleanliness and ease of use factors showed a significant difference (p<0.05). In addition, there were significant differences (p<0.05) on convenient facility and atmosphere factor depending on the average payment per person. The results of this research hopes to provide useful information to marketers targeting new seniors.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.437-443
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• 2013

This thesis enhanced the degree of utilization of smart phone through carrying out the application/app. which search and visit matjip (reputable restaurant) at the travel sites using smart phones. When we search matjip (reputable restaurant) using materialized application, we can select the best matjip (reputable restaurant) we want. Especially, this application evaluates individual restaurants through the level of utilization and satisfaction by consumer including appropriate menus, the style and design of the restaurant, reasonableness of prices, service of restaurant employees and sanitation management by region and registered the information input to DB in advance while classifying based on the evaluation scores to keep track for individual tastes. And individuals can record their personal memories to input columns. On top of that, information field for transportation is also designed to enhance the accessibility during travel, and in the future the application can be further utilized through the expansion of the DB through the input of famous tour sites and acquaintance's house information.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.635-646
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• 2018

This study applied Q methodology to graduate students of food service management department in Seoul to grasp subjective perception of customers using Michelin guide restaurant. Six types of analysis result were obtained. Specifically, the first type (N = 3): Restaurant hygiene-seeking type, the second type (N = 6): Restaurant taste-seeking type, the third type N = 5): Select Restaurant Compare Prices type, 4th type (N = 3): Pursuing taste for restaurant price type, 5th type (N = 2) Restaurant full service select type, and 6th type (N = 3): Restaurant menu configuration Select. In the future, the research on the Michelin guide restaurant will be revised and supplemented with more detailed Q methodological questions and analytical techniques based on many documents and empirical studies, to analyze the various opinions of respondents more concrete and objectively.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.35-56
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to found out that how well yield management, the element of Marketing mix possible to control, is composed and is conducted in strategic level in Italian Restaurant of domestic Hotel and that how much menu which is the element of Yield management contributes to growth of sales. As a result of this research, it is found out that all of three hotels have a different characteristic promotion hold by 10% in F/B. By that reason, out saucing is need to hotel management, but Restaurant should be activated continuously.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.1-17
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• 2002

This is the study about the efficient operation management of family restaurant employee. This study focus on the establishment and proposal of the efficient management plan of family restaurant industry's worker by the result which was analyzed statistically. In the side of employee's management, It will have to try to become accomplished a policy of public welfare possible to understand and the both direction communication that it will be able to understand with each other to understand. Also the possibility of incentive in order to be, must endeavor as continuation of the holiday duration when is not the money compensation which is simple even from compensation dimension, the holiday system which is various. In the side of employee's development training as providing the chance possibility of ability development there is a possibility where a satisfaction the business enterprise of family restaurant industry's worker will lead and occupation it will feel and the continuous training against the field which the oneself inside the store is keeping it leads and the knowledge. In the conclusion, the study of the human resources and the efficient human resources who is the possibility the manager and worker for being satisfactory should be go on.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.271-278
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of customer perceptions of control within the dining experience on customer satisfaction. Customer perceptions of the resulting pace of the service encounter negatively impacted their satisfaction ratings during the stages of ordering, production, and payment in a restaurant. The moderating influence of perceived service pace satisfaction during service stages in a restaurant on the relationship between perceived service pace and customer satisfaction was also examined. Perceived service pace satisfaction was examined using expectancy disconfirmation theory. The effect of perceived pace on customer satisfaction was moderated by perceived service pace satisfaction during the production stage with a greater tolerance to a faster pace during the ordering stage. The management needs to consider the negative effect of service encounter pace on customer satisfaction. Perceived service pace satisfaction during the service stages in a restaurant should also be factored into strategy development for duration control.

• Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.265-276
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• 2007

The Purpose of this research was to assess food safety knowledge and perceptions on hygiene education among new owners of restaurant in Gyeongnam area. In the questionnaire survey to 462 new owners of the necessity of hygiene education, more than half of them(56.3%) answered ‘Needed’ while ‘So so(29.2%)’ and ‘No need(14.1%)’ were also not a few. For the questionnaire asked what educational area was most beneficial, ‘Restaurant management and service(53%)’ was the most selected followed by ‘Food safety management and briefing on relevant food safety regulations(20.1%)’, ‘Tax management(12.8%)’ and ‘Food culture and menu development(11.7%)’. According to evaluation on new owners’ food safety knowledge, total average score was turned out to 6.83(out of total score of 15), less than 50% of average correct answers, it signified the demand for quantitative and qualitative improvement on hygiene education. To view the three areas’ evaluation score, characteristics of foodborne illness(2.56 points, out of total 5 points) and general hygiene management(2.54 points) marked more than 50% of correct answers while critical control points marked only 1.73 points, the lowest score.