The purposes of this study were to: a) identify choice attributes of bakery caf? customers, b) determine the affects of customer value through importance-performance analysis of choice attributes, and c) analyze the effects on customer perception va...
The purposes of this study were to: a) identify choice attributes of bakery caf? customers, b) determine the affects of customer value through importance-performance analysis of choice attributes, and c) analyze the effects on customer perception value and satisfaction, customers'' repurchasing and recommendation intentions, through the recognition of the bakery caf?''s performance of choice attributes by the customers.$$a$$aWith this purpose, questionnaires that were developed by examining existing documents and focus group interviews were distributed to 300 male and female customers over the age of 20 living in Seoul among which 275 copies were collected (91.7% rate of retrieval) and used for analysis. Specific results of this study were as follows.$$a$$aFirst, regarding the difference in the choice attributes by customer demographic characteristics, it was shown that female customers put more emphasis on internal environments among the choice attributes of a bakery caf? than males. With the difference of age, older people regarded the ''brand'' as important.$$a$$aSecond, according to the survey on current status of the caf? use, customers who use a bakery caf? more than three times a week valued the convenient factor of a bakery cafe over everything else compared to other customers. Also, the survey on the recognition type of a bakery caf? revealed that a group who perceived as a kind of bakery attached great importance to a brand in contrast with other groups.$$a$$aThird, the analysis on customer attitude and behavior towards a bakery caf? demonstrated that female customers had higher intentions to revisit a bakery caf? that they once used than male customers. Also, a group under the age of 25 showed higher intentions to visit again than other age groups.$$a$$aFourth, according to the study on the effect of choice attribute satisfaction of a bakery on customer perceived value, satisfaction, revisit intention and recommendation intention, products and services had an influence on customer recognition value and products and internal environments exerted significant effects on customer satisfaction. Revisiting intentions were influenced only by a product factor and recommendation intentions, greatly and positively by product and service factors.$$a$$aFifth, the analysis of bakery caf?''s importance-performance choice attributes recognized by customers revealed that the performance levels perceived by customers were lower than the importance levels at each dimension of product, service, internal environment and location factors. Especially, internal environment and service factors showed much difference.$$a$$aIn conclusion, environmental and service factors are influencing customer attitudes and behaviors significantly, but at the same time, customer perceived performances of them were lower compared to their importances. Therefore, it seems very urgent to improve internal environment and service attributes of bakery cafes for early settlement and development of bakery cafe industry.$$a$$a