Determinants of customer satisfaction towards robotic waiters among Gen Z customers in Malaysia: a conceptual paper

This purpose of the study is to investigate the customer satisfaction among Generation Z towards robotic waiters in restaurants. There are four predictors including Speed of Service, Perceived Usefulness (PU), Service Efficiency and Perceived Ease of Use (PEOU). The Gen Z customer is preferred in the study as they are the group that can use and accept high technological products and always looks for uniqueness especially related to robotic waiters. The underpinning theory of this research is Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) which explains how users accept and adopt new technology. The quantitative research is employed and a questionnaire which covers five constructs, namely Customer Satisfaction, Speed of Service, Perceived Usefulness (PU), Service Efficiency and Perceived Ease of Use (PEOU). A minimum total of 200 respondents from Gen Z customers in a survey for their acceptance of robotic waiters in restaurants. The correlation analysis is applied to examine the relationship between all variables, and the multiple regression analysis to analyse the impact of all independent variables on Customer Satisfaction towards robotic waiters. The results will provide an insight towards the application of robotic waiters and the ways to improve the customer satisfactions whenever being served by the robotic waiters. It might create a trend to encourage more restaurants to invest in a technological product which might be able to solve the manpower shortage and employee turnover problem in the industry.