“…The consequences of service failure are serious when mishandled as they lower perception of service quality (Köcher & Paluch, 2019;Kim et al, 2009), cause customer dissatisfaction (Koc, 2019) which, in turn, aff ects company revenues and disrupts its sustainability as a result (Nikbin et al, 2014). In response, service providers need to have a robust service recovery in place to win back dissatisfi ed customers (Matikiti et al, 2019) as the way to restore the perception of justice (Hwang, Gao & Mattila, 2020). This makes service recovery the top priority of businesses (Kranzbühler, Kleijnen & Verlegh, 2019).…”