The hospitality industry, including the restaurant industry, is enhancing its
competitiveness by using the core technology of the 4th industrial revolution.
As consumers' service experiences can be written in real time, related review
data is continuo...
The hospitality industry, including the restaurant industry, is enhancing its
competitiveness by using the core technology of the 4th industrial revolution.
As consumers' service experiences can be written in real time, related review
data is continuously accumulating. In particular, in the restaurant industry, due
to the intangibility, which is a characteristic of services, consumers refer to
online reviews are essential. In other words, consumers can minimize risks and
uncertainties in the consumption process through online reviews, and
information obtained through reviews is used to select and evaluate restaurants.
At this time, the restaurant attributes serve as a criterion for comparing
restaurants and making purchase decisions in the purchase decision process,
and at the same time affect customer satisfaction. In particular, there is a
difference in restaurant attributes because consumers' needs vary depending
on the type of restaurant. Therefore, this study aims to classify restaurants into
quick service, casual dining, and fine dining types to identify differences in
customer restaurant attributes and analyze what attributes are important for
each type of restaurant. TripAdvisor reviews were collected using Python for
the United States, which has the largest restaurant industry. Based on the
collected review data, word frequency analysis was performed by deriving the
simple frequency and TF-IDF values of words for each restaurant type using a
text mining technique. In addition, through LDA analysis, a topic modeling
method, the contents of reviews by restaurant type can be classified into which
topics, and the differences in topics by restaurant type were compared. First,
the difference in words mentioned by restaurant type was confirmed through
word frequency analysis. In the case of quick service restaurants, keywords
related to food, price, service speed, and location frequently appeared. In the
case of casual dining restaurants, the words about the employees providing
service and the atmosphere appeared at the top, and in the case of the fine
dining restaurant, the words expressing the service, atmosphere, and purpose
of visit frequently appeared. Second, through topic modeling LDA analysis, all
three restaurant types were classified into four topics. Overall, food and service
attributes are essential, indicating that they are the most important attributes to
consider in the process of selecting and evaluating restaurants regardless of
type. In addition, it shows that the more complex the type of restaurant that
requires services, the more complex the restaurant attributes are considered.
Through this study, the difference in restaurant attributes was confirmed by
understanding the needs of customers according to the restaurant type, and it
provided useful implications for establishing management and marketing
strategies according to the restaurant type.