These days, meal service industry expands in amount to meet inner and outer environment and also workers' expectations, desires and needs for meal service are being higher. In other words, recipients of meal service who received various meals and serv...
These days, meal service industry expands in amount to meet inner and outer environment and also workers' expectations, desires and needs for meal service are being higher. In other words, recipients of meal service who received various meals and services of high quality by the enhancement of the level of living and the development of the food industry and the food service industry are wanting to have food and service of better quality than to simply satisfy their hunger.
This study is intended to study each of factors that are properties of meal about workers' satisfaction with meal in industry at feeding facilities in industry and find out how they influence on satisfaction of meal, and so suggest to manage important aspects that have to be developed in management of feeding facility in industry. Also, to find out the link from the properties of meal in industry to satisfaction with meal, I tried to study the causal relationship between the factors as meal quality, hygienic conditions, feeding facilities, meal service and satisfaction with meal with a model and so I conducted survey of workers in industries that are small and medium enterprises in Busan and Gyeongnam with questions about meal quality, hygienic conditions, feeding facilities, meal service and satisfaction with meal that are properties of meal.
This study that analyzed data as above is intended to provide basic materials to promote enhancement of meal service in industry and workers' satisfaction with meal service, and specific objects of this study are as follows. First, study of effect of meal quality that is a property of meal on satisfaction with meal, second, study of effect of hygienic conditions in cafeteria that is a property of meal on satisfaction with meal, Third, study of effect of meal service that is a property of meal on satisfaction with meal, fourth, analysis how feeding facility that is a property of meal influence on satisfaction with meal service.
With the examined contents as above as the base, I would examine the properties of meal at the present and provide it as basic materials to enhance workers' satisfaction with meal and their accomplishment of duty.
To analyze data for this study, I conducted frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis with SAS 9.1 statistics package that is widely used in the field of social science and analyzed the level of suitability of study model with AMOS 4.0 statistics package. Also on the base of existing study, I set study model and hypothesis and conducted positive analysis to examine it. Summarized conclusions of the positive analysis are as follows.
First, according to presumed result of satisfaction with meal by meal quality, quality of food ingredients and freshness of the ingredients have significant effect on satisfaction with meal in the item of meal quality,
Second, by the presumed result of satisfaction with meal by meal service as kindness of the staffs at feeding facilities, speed and punctuality of rationing time has significant effect on satisfaction with meal.
Third, by the presumed result of satisfaction with meal in the item of hygienic conditions as cleanness of cafeteria, clothes of the staffs and their appearance hygiene, hygiene of food, if the location of hands cleaning is in near, hygienic conditions are not significant to satisfaction with meal.
Fourth, according to the presumed result of satisfaction with meal by feeding facilities, feeding facilities as lighting conditions in cafeteria, air conditioning and heating conditions, security of enough seats are not significant to satisfaction with meal.
After considering all the results, I could see that meal quality and meal service in the management of feeding facilities in industry influence on workers' satisfaction with meal. And it is shown that if enhanced meal quality than the present and good meal service are given to workers in industry, that could give positive effect on satisfaction with meal. These facts show that feeding facilities in industry have to improve the quality of food ingredients, keep freshness of the foods and so supply delicious food for always and the staffs at the feeding facilities have to kind to workers, keep the rationing time correctly for proper harmony of working hours and free time of workers and distribute food quickly to let workers can have joyful mealtime, to enhance workers' satisfaction with properties of meal, and then, by the care of industry, satisfaction of workers can rise in the enhancement of overriding welfare, it is expected to bring the accomplishment from the efficient management.
But this study has several limitations and problems in spite of remarkable contribution by theoretical and evidential study, brief assignments that should be conducted in the future are as follows.
First, generally in management of feeding facilities, not only meal quality and meal service are important but also hygienic conditions and feeding facilities are also important elements of satisfaction with meal, but the result of this study showed hygienic conditions or feeding facilities that are properties of meal do not influence on workers' satisfaction with meal, so this shall be studied continuously by study method or following development of theory in the future.
Second, this study showed the result that meal quality and meal service are important variables among properties of meal for workers in industry to satisfaction with meal, but for generalization of study method or development of theory about effect of meal quality, hygienic conditions, meal service, feeding facilities that are properties of meal for workers in industry on satisfaction with meal, following study after this study also needs to be continued in the future.