Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture (한국식생활문화학회지)

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A study on the Eating Out Behaviors of a Cold Noodle Restaurant Customer

냉면전문점 이용고객의 외식행동 분석

  • Kim, Tae-Hyoung (Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyungwon University) ;
  • Oh, Yu-Jin (Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyungwon University) ;
  • Lee, Young-Mee (Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyungwon University)
  • 김태형 (경원대학교 생활과학대학 식품영양학과) ;
  • 오유진 (경원대학교 생활과학대학 식품영양학과) ;
  • 이영미 (경원대학교 생활과학대학 식품영양학과)
  • Published : 2006.10.31
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Abstract

This study was to analyse the eating out behaviors of customers who visit a Koran restaurant especially focused on CNR(cold noodle: naengmyun restaurant) and to find out the marketing promotion points. Through the snowball sampling, 423 customers data were surveyed in summer and winter as respects of seasonal variation. The collecting data were analysed descriptive data and statistical different using the Statistical Package for the Social Science(SPSS version 10.0). The results were as follows; The participants of the study were composed of 209 man(49.4%) and 204 woman(50.6%). Most customers were 30's(36.2%), office worker(27.5%) and spend 5,000${\sim}$10,000 won(46.3%) for eating out. The consumer more preferred a specialty restaurant, the reason was to expect better taste(37.1%). In visiting CNR, the customer frequently ordered complement menu(90.1%) with cold noodle, complement menu should be developed periodically. The important factor to visiting CNR was the accessing convenience for the shop and desirable taking time was within 15 minutes. The buckwheat noodle in broth(mulnaengmyun) was the most favorite selecting menu. And the noodle texture was key evaluation factor in all types of cold noodle and the other factor was different according to the types of cold noodle. The visiting frequencies of CNR were not significantly different according to seasonal variation and sociodemographic variable. Above the half of customers visited at CNR with his/her family. This study find out the suggestion that consumer eating concepts about CNR was family eating therefore the cold noodle. specialty restaurant should be create more delight atmosphere and developed menu for families' eating out place.

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