The purpose of this study is to emphasize the importance of relationship marketing activities of family restaurants and analyse the effectiveness of those activities in the quality of relationship formed between customers and family restaurants.
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The purpose of this study is to emphasize the importance of relationship marketing activities of family restaurants and analyse the effectiveness of those activities in the quality of relationship formed between customers and family restaurants.
In order to meet the objective of this study, following three steps were taken; firstly, the researcher extracted factors of relationship marketing activities of family restaurants through reviewing various related literatures in relationship marketing. Secondly, the researcher examined the effect of relationship marketing activities of family restaurants to the quality of relationship comprised of trust and satisfaction of customers. Thirdly, the researcher examined the effect of trust to satisfaction both of which consist of the quality of relationship, satisfaction to the customers' switching behavior and the switching factors to the store loyalty.
269 usable questionnaires were collected from customers patronizing three family style restaurants in Seoul and Pusan area. Several statistical methods were used including descriptive analysis, reliability test, covariance analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and covariance structural analysis. Three groups of hypotheses were established and tested; restaurants' relationship marketing activities, relationship quality (trust, satisfaction), and customers' switching behavior.
The result drawn from empirical test proved that relationship marketing activities actually are the significant determinants of relationship quality and thus to the customers' switching behaviors.
Managerial implications can be drawn from the finding that restaurant companies can identify the activities of relationship marketing to continue the long-term relationship with their customers. Also restaurant companies can use the activities of relationship marketing as differentiating strategies, and allocate their resources into the activities of relationship marketing.