2015
DOI: 10.5539/ass.v11n23p129
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The Effect of Service and Food Quality on Customer Satisfaction and Hence Customer Retention

Abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between service quality, food quality, customer satisfaction and customer retention in limited service restaurants in Jordan. A questionnaire-based survey was distributed to 400 students served at 10 limited service restaurants in the neighbourhood of universities in Amman, the capital city of Jordan. Service quality was measured in terms of SERVQUAL attributes. The key dimensions of food quality, customer satisfaction and customer retention were ident… Show more

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“…The findings indicated that food quality has a significant positive effect on customer satisfaction. Greater support was reported in certain previous studies (Al-Tit, 2015;Nasir et al, 2014) which confirmed food quality as one of the key drivers of customer satisfaction. Thus, restaurant managers are advised to put significant emphasis on the key attributes of food quality that can stimulate customer satisfaction in the restaurant industry context.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 56%
“…The findings indicated that food quality has a significant positive effect on customer satisfaction. Greater support was reported in certain previous studies (Al-Tit, 2015;Nasir et al, 2014) which confirmed food quality as one of the key drivers of customer satisfaction. Thus, restaurant managers are advised to put significant emphasis on the key attributes of food quality that can stimulate customer satisfaction in the restaurant industry context.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 56%
“…Additionally, food quality is measured as an important restaurant's product (Canny, 2014). In the same way, previous research studies also provided support to confirm that quality of food is one of the chief determinants of customer satisfaction (Nasir et al, 2014;Al-Tit, 2015). This finding does not contradict with research results of Kisang et al, (2012) where they concluded that food quality has a positive and significant impact on perceived value of customer.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 58%
“…Product appearance refers to [12,16]. Freshness refers to [18,19]. Health is chosen as the dimension of product quality because healthy nutritious food shows good product quality.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Health is chosen as the dimension of product quality because healthy nutritious food shows good product quality. Some references to health indicators include [19,20]. The packaging indicator refers to several references such as [18,21].…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%