• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.63-76
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• 2017

The study intended to investigate the relationship between transformational leadership and creativity of cooks with transformational leadership as antecedent variable. Transformational leadership has been assessed positively in variable studies as a leadership to improve employee's creativity. The authors also tried to explore structural relationships among transformational leadership, intrinsic motivation, and creativity by identifying the meditating role of intrinsic motivation in the relationship between transformational leadership and creativity of cooks. The study subject was CJ FOODVILLE, which is a representative company with its size, sales, and recognition as a domestic restaurant business. A survey was conducted with employees who were working as a cook in restaurants operated by CJ FOODVILLE in metropolitan areas. The results of the study showed that charisma and intellectual stimulation of transformational leadership positively influenced intrinsic motivation, but inspirational motivation and individualized consideration did not significantly influence intrinsic motivation. In addition, the four elements of transformational leadership did not significantly affect creativity. The findings of the study show that intrinsic motivation played a role as a mediation among charisma, intellectual stimulation, and creativity of transformational leadership. Therefore, the findings of the study suggested intrinsic motivation as an important factor affecting creativity of cooks.

• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.196-203
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• 2004

The current study addresses the issue of whether the extent of cooperation between purchase and production departments relied on the food-items management, purchase process and cook's own job satisfaction. A self-administered questionnaire comprised of 61 statements was presented to the anonymous cooks to assess their perception of inter-departmental cooperation. Also, we asked them to evaluate the performance of food-items management, satisfaction with purchase process, i.e. purchase process, food-items, food suppliers, and job satisfaction. Out of 367 responses, 342 (93.2%) were available for analysis. The demographic characteristics of the respondents are presented and six hypotheses were tested using SPSS 11.0 and AMOS 5.0. The structural equation analysis revealed that the departmental cooperation between purchase and production departments, the exogenous variable, was not directly related with the respondents' job satisfaction. However, it was indirectly related with the job satisfaction through the two endogenous variables: -satisfaction with purchase process and performance of food-items management.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.105-112
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to provide basic data regarding the perceptions of medicated diets among chefs. The subjects were 22 exemplary restaurant chefs in the Danyang area. The results showed that 40.9% of the chefs regarded the taste of medicated diets as good. Conversely, 22.7% of the subjects answered that they didn't know about medicated diets. Mass media and education from relevant institutions were the means of acquiring information about medicated diets. The chefs recognized that varieties of sauce could make medicated diets popular because of special flavor. Female chefs were generally more familiar with herbs than male chefs. Overall, the chefs were not familiar with Menthae Herba, Atractylodis Japonica, Adenophorae radix, Caryophylli Flos, or Carthami Flos. However, they were familiar with Glycyrrhizae Radix, Cassiae Semen, Cinnamomi Cortex, Polygonati Rhizoma, Mume Fructus, and Ginseng Radix, even though they didn't like the tastes pertaining to medicated diets. Ginseng Radix was the most well-known oriental herb, and Mume Fructus and Rubi Fructus were also popular. The most popular cooking methods for medicated diets were, in order, boiling rice, roasting items, and preparing the herbs as beverages.

• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.23 no.1 s.97
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• pp.25-32
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• 2007

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of the perceived importance of kitchen equipment and facilities on the hygienic performance of cooks in deluxe hotels. Cooks and chefs at 7 different deluxe hotels participated in this study. Out of 490 questionnaires administered, 456 (93.1%) were completed and 419 (91.9%) were analyzed using a statistical package SPSS 12.0. The results were as follows. First, the correlation between sanitary equipment, including HACCP system, in the hotel kitchens and the hygienic management performance confirmed the significant effect of the sanitary equipment on the performance of the cooks and chefs. Second, the sanitary facilities in the hotel kitchens greatly affected the hygienic management performance. The results also demonstrated that the sanitary equipment provided the same contribution to the performance irrespective of the job level, management type and HACCP practice. However, the sanitary facilities greatly affected the management type expecially the chain hotels. The hygienic management performance did not affect the cooking stage (before-cooking and during-cooking), but affected the after-cooking stage according to the management type and the HACCP practice, but not the job level.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.237-248
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• 2008

This study is on the carving decoration which makes visual beauty and luxury mood upon serving foods to customers in the food service industry. It investigated 413 cooks working for hotels and luxury restaurants to examine how they recognize carving decoration. The purpose of this study is as follows. First, it examines the present condition of educating cooks about carving decoration. Next, for their general perception of carving decoration, it investigated the most popular field in which carving decoration is used, the types of carving decoration they want to learn most, and the types of business which need carving decoration most by the type of carving. The research result finds out that many cooks have much interest in carving decoration, and it seems that carving decoration is necessary when they are working. However, educational institutions they can learn the skills have not been established. This research shows its necessity in the education system with fundamental data.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.115-127
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to validate the evaluation of stock, which has relation with self-esteem and career for the development of commercial stock. This study conducted a survey of purchasing attitudes & receptiveness in order to hold an accurate course for developing stock. According to the analysis, the results are as follows. It examined the cuisiniers of deluxe hotels who mainly use stock of Seoul and the capital region. A total of 350 samples were distributed and 289 samples were selected for the research. Statistical analysis of collected data executed frequency, percentage, average, reliability analysis, factor analysis using SPSSWIN 12.0 PC package programs. Making stock, cooking skills, cooking methods, quality of food ingredients and cooking recipes are important. Also, sensory characteristics such as color, odor, and taste should be considered. Career and self-esteem act on the purchase accommodation attitude of commercial stock. Commercial stock products more than 1,000 mL or 2,000 mL of liquid styles need packing of vacuum pack(vinyl). Based on the result of this study, we will make efficient use of research data for the development of commercial stock products and we will be able to improve conservation of taste with good quality by making by hand through standardization and mass production of traditional culinary skills.

• Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.250-264
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to compare dietitians' with cooks' actual sterilization performance for improving points of sanitation practices of cooking instruments and facilities in Kyonggi Province school foodservices. A total of 400 questionnaires were mailed to the dietitians and the cooks at elementary and middle schools in Kyonggi Province. Finally, 140 dietitians and 140 cooks replied by making a total of 280 replies(70%). The results of this study found that the cooks' attitudes toward the sterilization of the vegetable cutter body, multiple shelf, and distributing cart showed higher frequencies than the dietitians'. Cooks disinfected the vegetable cutter blade, multiple shelf, distributing cart, cook's aprons, and 'L' transporting cart better than dietitians' guides expected. In the sterilization method, cooks performed better than indicated when cooking with rubber gloves. The most difficult thing in dietitians' managing sterilization was the lack of cooking facilities and instruments. They strongly demanded the detailed explanatory notes according to their own Cities and Provinces and the circumstantial manual of disinfection parts in School Foodservice Sanitary Management Guide. There were possibilities of food-poisoning, infection and safety incidents due to the budgetary shortage of cooking facilities and instruments.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.585-603
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• 2014

The purposes of this study were to investigate managers' and chefs' perception on importance and performance of operation management of Korean restaurants, and to examine Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) for operation management. A total of 342 managers and chefs working at Korean restaurants in Seoul and Gyeonggi province were surveyed and 314 responses were returned. Excluding responses with missing data, 250 responses were used for data analysis. In terms of importance of operation management attributes, 'sanitation management (4.38)' category received the highest scores, followed by 'facility and equipment management (4.35)', 'service management (4.17)', 'production management (4.04)', 'inventory and financial management (4.04)' and 'marketing (3.25)'. In terms of performance, the highest operation management attribute was associated with 'sanitation management (4.00)', followed by 'facility and equipment management (3.80)', 'production management (3.69)', 'inventory and financial management (3.55)', 'service management (3.51)' and 'marketing (2.53)'. As the results of IPA, 'customer care and hospitality education for hall servers', 'training hall servers for menu explanation to customers', and 'neat appearances and clean uniforms of the hall servers' fell into the Quadrant II(concentrate here).

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.94-106
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• 2008

This study is conducted to explore the cooks' recognition of culinary environment of school feeding among the cooks working for elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools in the Ulsan district. A total of 200 samples were distributed and 185 samples were collected; among them, 182 valid samples were selected for research. Answers were processed by SPSS 12.0. after data coding. As for factor analysis of culinary environment, three factors were extracted, which are general environment, human environment, and facilities equipment environment. It was found that general environment included ventilation(31.5%), temperature (29.0%), humidity(22.1%) in the order of importance; human environment covered cooperation among cooks (28.1%), the number of cooks(25.7%), and professionalism of cooks in the order of importance; facility equipment environment contained the design and layout of facilities and equipment(29.3%), various safety facilities, and safety device(23.3%) in the order of importance. However, a measure for improving work environment, number of cooks, deterioration of equipment, etc. should be considered.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.23 no.7
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• pp.71-79
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• 2017

This paper presented analysis on the perception by Korean restaurant employees of Korean royal cuisine. Classification using a subjective research method called Q methodology was performed on perceptions of Korean restaurant employees about Korean royal cuisine. This paper derived four types of perceptions. First type (pursuit of tradition) emphasized traditions of royal cuisine, i.e. cooking method and spacious menu-setting on the table. The second type (pursuit of refinement) stressed the importance of "atmosphere and luxuriousness of Korean restaurants and sophistication of royal cuisine, as well as the improvement of interior and exterior environments of Korean restaurants serving royal cuisine. The third type (pursuit of fundamentals) focused on fundamentals of royal cuisine itself such as raw materials, sincere effort, historical meaning, appropriate prices, etc. The last type (pursuit of health) valued a nutritionally balanced diet rather than taste itself. This study provides more specific positioning strategy based on the characteristics of each of the four classifications for the status of Korean restaurants.