Service delay of cook to order food: assessing customer attitudes, reactions and implication to gerai choices and intention to re-patronization / Noorliza Zainol

Zainol, Noorliza (2011) Service delay of cook to order food: assessing customer attitudes, reactions and implication to gerai choices and intention to re-patronization / Noorliza Zainol. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM).

Abstract

Every individual could agree that waiting for service of food in the restaurant is becoming increasingly common in peoples' daily life. Some may experience having to wait before service is rendered, some during its delivery and some after the core service has completed. The wait for service is denote as the time from which a customers or consumers is ready to receive the service until the time the service commences or to the state of readiness felt by that customers during the wait. However, service delay beyond expected time affects customers dining mood, overall satisfaction and closely related to complain behaviour and implicate their future revisit intention. This study empirically investigates the attitudes and reaction of Malaysian customers toward service delay of cook to order food and the implication to their Gerai choices and re -patronization. Personally administered questionnaires survey was used and respondents who had experienced dining at Gerai were conveniently appraoched at three popular supermarkets in Seberang Jaya city, Carrefour, Pacific and Sunway Carnival. Through a series of analyses looking from frequencies, descriptives, independent sample t-test, One-Way ANOVA to standard multiple regression some useful insights or predictors were obtained. Result showed that there is strong evidence that the majority of customers explicitly perceived that service delay significantly contributes and positively influences to the prediction of the Gerai respondents' levels of reactions and intention to re-patronization. In other words, significant numbers of customer perceived service delay will affect their dining propensity. With that better understanding of the customers experience in waiting cook to order food would provide Gerai operators with valuable information the consequence of service and therefore be more sensitive and effective toward operation management techniques and improving customer expectation and managing repeat patronization.

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Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
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Zainol, Noorliza
2007265276
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Mohd Zahari, Mohd Salehudin
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Subjects: T Technology > TX Home economics > Nutrition. Foods and food supply
T Technology > TX Home economics > Cooking
T Technology > TX Home economics > Hospitality industry. Hotels, clubs, restaurants, etc. Food service > Quality control
Divisions: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam > Faculty of Hotel and Tourism Management
Programme: Master of Science in Food Service Management
Keywords: Service delay, Food, Order, Customer
Date: 2011
URI: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/43825
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