• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.50-63
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of person-organization fit and person-job fit on occupational commitment, organizational commitment and turnover intentions among cooks in the foodservice industry. Data were collected by a total of 210 cooks at restaurants in the Seoul and Kyunggi area. The analysis of AMOS was used to test the causal model. The results indicate that the person-organization fit was positively related to occupational commitment and organizational commitment. The person-job fit was also found to correlate positively with occupational commitment and organizational commitment. Occupational commitment was positively related to turnover intentions while organizational commitment was negatively related to turnover intentions. Implications of the results and limitations of the study were discussed.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.105-127
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• 1999

The purpose of this study was to investigate cook′s duties in the School Foodservice law, comparing with those of other countries and to suggest the more useful details of cook′s duties. As a result of this study many things of the cook′s duties in the School Foodservice law have to be changed. If then, the gap of the School Foodservice law and Food Sanitation law will be decreased, logical application of two laws could be possible and a lot of cook′s abilities could be enoughly used. Compared with other countries, cooks can be responsible officials in the School Foodservice. Suggestions about cook′s duties in the School Foodservice law are as follows. 1. Not only dietitian but also cook should be subscribed as a responsible official in the School Foodservice law. 2. Not only the duties of dietitian but also those of cook should be subscribed in the School Foodservice law. 3. Cook as a responsible official of School Foodservice should investigate the food as well as dietitian. 4. Dietitian teaches cook and assistant cook how to cook presently by the School Foodservice law, but cook should teach how to cook because cooking is cook′s major and cook gets the national certificate of cooking. 5. Cooks do job under dangerous circumstances, so extra money should be paid to cooks. 6. Even if not being described in the law and education of sanitation is presently done in the cook′s reeducation, dietitian educates sanitation to cook, so it has to be changed. Cook can educate sanitation to other workers in the School Foodservice. 7. The name of office room in the School Foodservice systems "dietitian′s room" should be changed to "Foodservice office room". If those suggestions are accomplished, cooks and dietitians can cooperate effectively and respectfully and the better School Foodservice can be served to students.

• Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.304-317
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• 2024

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the importance and performance of sodium reduction practices among childcare center cooks in the Yongin area before and after a 3-month salinometer support program. Methods: In total, 313 cooks employed in childcare centers in Yongin were surveyed before and after participating in a salinometer support program. The survey included questions on general information, sodium-related dietary habits, and perceived importance and performance levels of sodium reduction approaches in the purchasing, cooking, and serving areas. The centers were divided into childcare centers registered as group-feeding facilities (FS group, n = 68) and those not registered as such (non-FS group, n = 245). The differences between the two groups were analyzed. Results: The overall importance levels increased significantly after the program in both the FS-group (P < 0.001) and non-FS group (P = 0.005). The overall performance levels also increased significantly in both groups (P < 0.001 for all). Consequently, the significant difference between the importance and performance levels disappeared in both groups after the program. However, unlike the FS group, which showed no significant differences between the importance and performance levels after the program in all three areas, the non-FS group still demonstrated lower performance levels than importance levels in the purchasing (P = 0.011) and serving (P = 0.034) areas after the program. Conclusions: The use of salinometers significantly enhanced the performance and importance of low-sodium management practices among cooks in childcare centers, especially in the FS group. The continuous monitoring of salinity measurements and tailored education specialized for the FS and non-FS groups are recommended.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.47-59
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• 2018

Vocational education has been constantly blamed for training skills that are not suitable for the field. This study was sought for finding out the necessary skills for the hotel entry-level cooks by conducting in-depth interviews, questionnaires, and case studies in terms of NCS's basic competencies and competencies required at work environment. The results of this study are as follows: First, in the field, job performance ability is more important than skills and knowledge. Second, among the NCS's basic competencies, communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-development skills, information skills, and professional ethics are prioritized competencies for hotel-entry level cooks. Third, in terms of competency factors at work, it is necessary to learn the adaptability of the field. Fourth, in case of overseas culinary institutes, the core of their culinary education was the system to learn how to operate the site rather than the education about cooking skills or knowledge. Fifth, in holistic approach, the result showed that four elements which are skills, knowledge, field practice, and simulation training are required for Culinary Arts curriculum.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.651-663
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to provide basic data and information for the improvement of school foodservice and efficient management of cooks by surveying the working conditions and the job satisfaction of cooks at schools located in Chungbuk province. The questionnaires of 311 cooks were available for this study. 26.3% of respondents worked at elementary schools, 34.2% of respondents worked at middle schools, and 39.5% of respondents worked at high schools. 72.3% of them were in their forties, 24.4% worked during five to seven years, and 63.0% had qualification certificates. Their job satisfaction was examined from ten dimensions. Respondents were not satisfied with the wage system and working environment which scored 2 points out of 5 points(not satisfied). They gave 1 point out of 5 points to the promotion dimension(not satisfied at all) while organizational committment area received relatively high points. The overall job satisfaction level was 3.06 points. The evaluation of the factors that made their job unsatisfactory were evaluated and the bonus system, treatment system and the wage system were 3.80 points, 3.69 points, and 3.62 points, respectively. In order to improve the job satisfaction of school foodservice employees, a change of the wage system and welfare system are needed.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.153-171
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• 2002

This study had three major purpose: 1) to examine the relationship between coloring factor of Hors d'oeuvre and preference of dishes. 2) to examine the relationship between coloring factor of Hors d'oeuvre and selection of dishes. 3) to examine the relationship between coloring factor of Hors d'oeuvre and customer satisfaction. Questionnaires for the study were distributed 300 subjects in deluxe class hotels in Seoul. Among 300 questionnaires, 280 subjects were collected and utilized for analysis. In HY hotel, 35 subjects of customers, 24 subjects of cooks, and 32 subjects of service personnels were collected. In R hotel, 29 subjects of customers, 32 subjects of cooks, and 32 subjects of service personnels were collected. In H hotel, 29 subjects of customers, 34 subjects of cooks, and 33 subjects of service personnels were collected. Analysis ways used for this study were frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, ANOVA, To accomplished the objective 1), ANOVA was utilized. To accomplished the objective 2) and 3), regression analysis was unitized. The findings from this study were as follows. First it was found that selection of dishes was affected by coloring factory of Hors d'oeuvre. Secondly, it was found that customer satisfaction was affected by coloring factor of Hors d'oeuvre. Consequently, development of Hors d'oeuvre by harmonizing of various colorings should be activated to raise level of preference of dishes. Also, in regard to level of satisfaction, harmony of various colorings should be required.

• 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.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.20 no.1
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• pp.105-119
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• 2014

This study aims to examine what influence sanitary education have on sanitary knowledge in terms of frequency, necessity, degree of satisfaction, degree of understanding, and applicability, and what influence sanitary knowledge of cooks has on sanitary management performance, targeting cooks employed by contracted foodservices. For this purpose, we conducted a survey of 31 contracted foodservice companies catering to factories, colleges, hospitals, offices, government offices located in Busan & Gyeongnam region from October 1 to 15, 2012. A total of 320 copies of questionnaire were handed out, and 302 copies (94.3%) were retrieved and 289 ones (90.3%), to the exclusion of 13 wrongly written ones, were used in the final analysis. The analysis result showed that the more necessity of sanitary education cooks perceived; the higher satisfaction with the sanitary education they felt; the higher applicability of the sanitary education, the higher level of sanitary knowledge they got. It was revealed that the degree of satisfaction with the sanitary education had the strongest influence on the improvement of sanitary knowledge compared to the other factors. In addition, It was shown that as the level of sanitary knowledge of cooks improved, their sanitary management performance also got better.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.76-88
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• 2011

This study surveyed the recognition and satisfaction of food styling for cooks in a deluxe hotel. The most important item for cooks while cooking was 'taste' (57.7%) followed by 'sanitation' (25.9%). For food styling education in hotels, only 35.5% of the hotels surveyed had their own education program, and the media was the main source of food styling information (54.9%). Also, chefs studied food styling(49.6% of respondents) by themselves, for 'personal development'(73.8%). Average scale of recognition of food trends was $3.35{\pm}.83$, and that of the principles of food styling was $3.41{\pm}.84$. There were the significant differences in terms of the recognition of food styling in the age groups, cooking experience, and the positions. Moreover, cooks' overall satisfaction with food styling was found low with the average of $2.90{\pm}.89$. For the satisfaction with food styling based on the general characteristics, there was a significant difference in 'positions' (p<0.1) and 'education' (p<0.1), which suggested that the higher positions and education, the greater satisfaction with food styling.