The purpose of the study was to measure service quality for the customers of the Korean restaurants in Jeonju Hanok village in the new view that is different from the precedent studies this far by introducing Kano model.
Firstly, service quality elem...
The purpose of the study was to measure service quality for the customers of the Korean restaurants in Jeonju Hanok village in the new view that is different from the precedent studies this far by introducing Kano model.
Firstly, service quality elements of the Korean restaurants in Jeonju Hanok village were classified in the view of Kano model, resulting in 2 items of attractive quality elements, 8 items of must-be quality elements, 4 items of one-dimensional quality elements and 14 items of ignorant quality elements which totaled 29 items.
Secondly, in reference with each item of service quality measurement tool of the Korean restaurants in Jeonju Hanok village, it found ‘Better’ index and ‘Worse’index of expectation concept suggested by Timko (1993) in view of Kano model. Then, it tried to identify the items increasing ‘customer satisfaction’ and the items decreasing ‘customer dissatisfaction’. Out of all the 29 items, the item with the highest Better index was ‘building exterior’ item (.62) and the item with the lowest index was ‘action before request’ (.29).
Thirdly, the result of the analysis on the effect of the service quality of the Korean restaurants in Jeonju Hanok village indicated that pattern, response and sympathy had a statistically valid positive effect. When sympathy was emphasized, customer satisfaction rose by 0.185; when response was emphasized, customer satisfaction rose by 0.107 and when pattern was emphasized, customer satisfaction rose by 0.100.
Fourthly, the result of the analysis on theeffect of the customer satisfaction with the Korean restaurants in Jeonju Hanok village to the re-visit intention indicated that the customer satisfaction had a statistically valid positive effect. When the customer satisfaction rose, the re-visit intention rose by 0.531.
Fifthly, the result of the analysis on the effect of the customer satisfaction with the Korean restaurants in Jeonju Hanok village to the word-of-mouth effect indicated that the customer satisfaction had a statistically valid positive effect. When the customer satisfaction rose, the word-of-mouth effect rose by 0.530.
If the foregoing result is looked in terms of Jeonju Hanok village’s own Kano model quality elements, the Jeonju Hanok village’s own attractive quality elements are the ones that are able to create the biggest effect and the strongest impression. Right menu serving for ordered food, no-good service maintenance, delayed food serving time and incorrect billing were the reasons for dissatisfaction, which eventually became the elements to raise Worse index that is an adverse quality element. This result implied that even if Jeonju has the location limitation as it is far from capital zone Seoul, Jeonju’s own traditional food met with the originality of the Jeonju Hanok village and the attractive element of Better index for the tourists from other areas who prefer local traditional foods since Hanryu are to be highlighted and improved whereby measured service quality of Hanryu and local indigenous foods grafted together may lead to more development.