Along with the growth of food service industry market, Korea's coffee industry is also rapidly expanding. Especially, on account of recent improvement of income level, increase of women's social activities, changes in values, expansion of leisure time...
Along with the growth of food service industry market, Korea's coffee industry is also rapidly expanding. Especially, on account of recent improvement of income level, increase of women's social activities, changes in values, expansion of leisure time, westernized eating out culture, changes of life patterns, etc., the demand from customers is sharply increasing. Considering that in the domestic coffee market which reached the size of 1.9 trillion won in 2009, coffee houses form about 28.9% (0.55 trillion won) and are constantly growing, it is expected that the growth of coffee house market would even more increase. Eighty take-out coffee brands, and forty domestic and foreign coffee house brands are competing together in the current domestic coffee market.
Based on these observations, It was intended to formulate a hypothesis that the service quality of each brand would influence on customer satisfaction and revisit intention and take an investigation on it.
For this, Starbucks being the most recognized and Cafebene being noticeably growing in the recent coffee market were selected for this research, and the relationships between differentiating factors of customer satisfaction on service quality of each and customers' revisit intention as well as customer satisfaction were investigated.
In this research, to verify the hypothesis, 299 copies of the properly answered questionnaire were obtained by conducting a survey with total 310 copies of the questionnaire to the recent customers of Starbucks and Cafebene in Seoul and Gyeonggi region. To evaluate the reliability and the validity of questionnaire items, Cronbach's Alpha and an Exploratory Factor Analysis were implemented. To suggest the test results, a Regression Analysis was carried out using SPSS for Windows 12.0 Statistical Package.
Based on them, it was attempted to provide a suggestion of the research by searching for the measures for service quality improvement, customer satisfaction increase and customers' revisit factor increase.
In this research, first, it was found that typological differences of the service quality of Starbucks and Cafebene appeared differently according to gender, age, work and usage frequency as total 5 factors of service quality were composed when implementing a Factor Analysis.
Second, as a result of implementing a Regression Analysis of customer satisfaction on typology of service quality, respectively of Starbucks and Cafebene, the customer satisfaction of Starbucks was largely influenced by the taste of coffee, the smell and coffee, the menu, cleanliness, facilities, interiors, etc., which appeared as major variables. On the other hand, the customer satisfaction of Cafebene was largely influenced by inside and outside facilities of the coffee house, lights, music, etc., which appeared as major variables.
Third, as a result of implementing a Regression Analysis of revisit intention on service quality typology respectively of Starbucks and Cafebene, for the customers' revisit intention of Starbucks, the taste of coffee, the smell of coffee, the menu, cleanliness, facilities, interiors, etc. strongly influenced on customer satisfaction and also became the major variables, and for the customers' revisit intention of Cafebene, favorable impression was appeared as a influential variable to the customer satisfaction. It was appeared that favorable impression largely affect the overall service quality as well as the overall satisfaction.
Forth, in this research, the attributes of service quality in the coffee industry where the competitiveness is being intensified were identified, the relationships on the customer satisfaction and the revisit intentions were investigated based on it, and the causal relations between these concepts were approached through an Empirical Analysis. Based on it, it was aimed to proved the suggestions of research by finding the measures of service quality improvement, customer satisfaction increase and revisit factor increase in the coffee industry.
According to the findings of this research, first, the service qualities of coffee houses show typological differences by the brand.
Second, it was found that the coffee house brand has a major influence on customers' revisit intention. Therefore, the certainty was interpreted as the most important factor than anything else and the convenience was accordingly interpreted as the most important factor in a coffee house, which suggests that it is feasible to induce customers' revisit and satisfaction by concentrating on improving the convenience.
These service quality factors will increase the customer satisfaction by fulfilling the needs of customers, induce the revisit of the customers to the coffee house, and eventually be of help to the sales increase and the management improvement of coffee houses.