• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.148-175
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• 2003

As mentioned above, Korean restaurant's menu price is to be decided by combining various factors. Korean restaurant is demanded to decide menu price more carefully than other restaurants do, because the number of Korean restaurant is the largest in Korea and Korean food is the most popular among the Korean people. Korean restaurant cannot neglect price competitiveness and is often given complaints from its customers. Because of such management difficulties, the number of Korean restaurant has recently decreased at special class hotels as well as common hotels. Korean restaurant managers are demanded to make efforts to inherit Korean tradition and culture by keeping pride and responsibility. Until now, Korean restaurants are thought to decide the menu prices in short-sighted, non-scientific and haphazard way of thinking. Such price decision factors have established traditions and have been generally accepted to let Korean restaurant managers lose carefulness at the menu price decision. In advanced countries, however, they recognized the importance of the price decision since the 1960's or earlier to research the menu price systematically and scientifically. Before deciding the menu prices, Korean restaurant managers are demanded to investigate various kinds of factors carefully and spend a lot of time to calculate direct costs, that is, one of the most important factors of cost calculations. The managers are demanded to decide the menu prices in reasonable and future-oriented way by keeping not private thinking but correct information and judgment. The sale of each menu has difference, while the menu price increase has been evaluated to be successful from overall point of view. Despite of increased total sale, there was not much difference of net profit because of increased material costs. However, higher level of the customers produced comfortable and cozy atmosphere of the restaurant enough to satisfy customers, and improved service quality much more. Not only customer satisfaction but also improved service quality is thought to play an important role in invitation of future customers.

• Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.155-166
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• 2021

Objectives: Driven by a growth of single-person households and individualized lifestyles, solo dining in restaurants is an increasingly recognizable trend. However, a research gap exists in the comparison of solo and group diners' menu-decision making processes. Based on the self-control dilemma and the temporal construal theory as a theoretical framework, this study compared the ordering intentions of solo vs. group diners with healthy vs. indulgent (less healthy) entrées. The mediating role of consumption orientation and the moderating role of amount of menu nutrition information were further explored to understand the mechanism and a boundary condition. Methods: A scenario-based online survey was developed using a 2 (dining social context: solo vs. with others) × 3 (amount of menu nutrition information: no nutrition information vs. calories vs. calories/fat/sodium), between-subjects, experimental design. Consumers' level of nutrition involvement was controlled. A nationwide survey data (n = 224) were collected from a crowdsourcing platform in the U.S. Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance, independent t-test, univariate analysis of covariance, and moderated mediation analyses. Results: Findings reveal that solo (vs. group) diners have less (vs. more) intentions to order indulgent menu items due to a more utilitarian (vs. more hedonic) consumption orientation in restaurant dining. Findings also show that solo (vs. group) diners have more (vs. less) intentions to order healthy menu items when the restaurant menu presented nutrition information including calories, fat, and sodium. Conclusions: The findings contribute to the literature of foodservice management, healthy eating, and consumer behavior by revealing a mechanism and an external stimuli of solo vs. group diners' healthy menu-decision making process in restaurants. Furthermore, the findings provide restauranteurs and health professionals with insights into the positive and negative impacts of menu nutrition labelling on consumers' menu-decisions.

• Journal of the FoodService Safety
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.35-41
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• 2023

This study was based on the results of the study of 'Cheonyeon and Chunghyun Taste Alley Pilgrimage- Introducing Hidden Restaurants in Our Town', which was adopted as a project to revitalize urban regeneration as part of the Cheonyeon and Chunghyun Urban Regeneration New Deal project. This study was conducted in total of two stages, as a first step, the commercial district of Seodaemun Station was analyzed by analyzing the hashtag (#) mentioned along with the "Seodamun Station Restaurant" on Instagram from 2015 to 2020. As a result of the analysis, it was found to be an office commercial district related to "office workers", and it was found to be a commercial district with the characteristics of "small but certain happiness" where you can find hidden restaurants in front of your house. Based on the characteristics of these commercial districts, five stores utilizing the characteristics of the region were selected and cooking classes were conducted for students of Kyonggi University, who are local residents. The purpose of this study was to revitalize the aging Seoul city and contribute to the formation of positive relationships between local residents and merchants through cooking classes. In addition, the process was produced as digital media content and used as local promotional materials.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.89-112
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• 2023

In March 2020, as it was declared a COVID-19 pandemic, various quarantine measures were taken. Accordingly, many changes have occurred in the tourism and hospitality industries. In particular, quarantine guidelines, such as the introduction of non-face-to-face services and social distancing, were implemented in the restaurant industry. For decades, research on restaurant attributes has emphasized the importance of three attributes: atmosphere, service quality, and food quality. Nevertheless, to the best of our knowledge, research on restaurant attributes considering the COVID-19 situation is insufficient. To respond to this call, this study attempted an exploratory approach to classify new restaurant attributes based on understanding environmental changes. This study considered 31,115 online reviews registered in Naverplace as an analysis unit, with 475 general restaurants located in Euljiro, Seoul. Further, we attempted to classify restaurant attributes by clustering words within online reviews through TF-IDF and LDA topic modeling techniques. As a result of the analysis, the factors of "prevention of infectious diseases" were derived as new attributes of restaurants in the context of COVID-19 situations, along with the atmosphere, service quality, and food quality. This study is of academic significance by expanding the literature of existing restaurant attributes in that it categorized the three attributes presented by existing restaurant attributes and further presented new attributes. Moreover, the analysis results have led to the formulation of practical recommendations, considering both the operational aspects of restaurants and policy implications.

• Journal of Korea Planning Association
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• v.53 no.7
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• pp.23-37
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• 2018

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of commercial uses in the area where Gentrification occurs. In order to cope with such a diffusion phenomenon, it is necessary to derive the diffusion area accurately. Gentrification has a feature that occurs locally in a short time. Therefore, this study used the space-time pattern analysis to derive the diffusion area of commercial uses in Bukchon, a typical gentrified area in Seoul. Among the space-time pattern analysis, space time permutation statistics used in this study can derive the convergence phenomenon of time and space in a particular case with only the location information. The results confirmed that there has been three proliferation area in Bukchon, one started in 2007, other in 2013 and the other in 2014. In the earliest area, independent shops were the most popular, and the majority of them were restaurants. However in latter areas, there has been more chain stores and clothing stores than earlier area. The findings of this study indicate that space time pattern analysis can be used as a tool to analyze the proliferation by gentrification because it can derive accurate location and timing of the diffusion.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.1-14
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• 2012

The focus of this study is on investigating an appropriate selling strategy for the guests of a fine dining restaurant in deluxe hotels located on seoul. As survey methods, questionnaires were prepared and distributed to the customers who visited the restaurants of five-star hotels in Seoul. The survey was carried out from July 1 to August 30, 2010. Total 223 copies of questionnaire were used for final analysis. Frequency analysis, descriptive statistics, exploration factor analysis, and reliability analysis were conducted through SPSS 18.0 for final analysis, and path analysis was conducted through AMOS 18.0 for verification of hypotheses. The hypothesized relationships among the models were tested simultaneously by using a structure equation model(SEM). The proposed model provided an adequate fit to the date, $X^2$ = 143.934(df=120, p<.001), GFI=0.935. AGFI= 0.907, RMR=0.022, CFI=0.983. The study results are as follows. First, the restaurant employee's adaptive selling strategies consist of persuasion-suggestion, kindness-rapidity. Second, in the result of analysis to understand the influences between customer satisfaction and adaptive selling strategies, customer satisfaction is shown to have an influential relationships with persuasion-suggestion strategy and kindness-rapidity strategy of employee's adaptive selling. Third, all adaptive selling strategies did not affect customer loyalty. Finally, customers who are satisfied with such services have a significant effect on customer loyalty and supports the existing previous studies.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.429-434
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• 2020

Worldwide Electric Vehicle (EV) sales are rapidly increasing. But in many cases, charging locations can be found within or near downtown area of the city which makes EV users living outskirts of the city very difficult to establish their daily EV charging routines. In order to improve this situation, we have come up with a daily EV charge service connected with convenience stores and restaurants within reach of most EV users living in South Korea. We aim to allow users to charge their EVs while they shop and eat, just as if they charge their smartphones at cafes and restaurants. We have gone through user diary research and focus group interview research to figure out current user's concerns regarding charging and maintenance of EVs and applied the findings to our proposed service design.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.87-104
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• 2005

A lifestyle changes according to environment. It appears more in the dietary life connected with the necessities in life. This study is executed empirically through the questionnaire that consists of selection attribute and variables connected with "well-being" that is examined in empirical analysis. It was carried out for 20 days from July 15 to August 5, 2003 with the customers who live in Seoul and the suburbs. With collected data, there were frequency analysis and factor analysis, reliability analysis using SPSS 10.0 packages, and T-test and ANOVA were enforced for the verification of differences between demographic elements with each factor. The result indicates that the inclinations of customers changed from the "well-being" trend have four factors: health consideration factor, food materials factor, cooking factor, and habit factor. And the housewife group shows the great changes in habit factor. In case of the changes according to incomes, the larger income earners tend to consider health more. In conclusion, people came to prefer the healthy Korean style food from the well-being trend.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.67-79
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• 2007

This study verified the relationship between the personality traits and the job preference in the foodservice industry. Questionnaire was held with targeting to the persons who engage in the foodservice industry, especially restaurants located in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. Factor analysis, regression analysis, t-analysis and dispersion analysis were carried out as the methodology of this study to analyze the relation with the Big Five Theory of Personality, which includes agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, openness to experience, and neuroticism and job preference. As a result, conscientiousness, openness to experience and neuroticism were founded as the meaningful factors of effect on the job preference. In order to promote the job preference in the foodservice industry, engagement of employees who have suitable personality traits should be considered as an important issue in result of this study.

• Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Planning & Design
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• v.35 no.8
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• pp.111-122
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to understand the timing of Gentrification by the study through the analysis of licensing data for food service businesses under the correlation with regional policies and systems. In addition, by analyzing the change in location patterns of the food service business in the district unit plan zones, the cause, development patterns and regional differences were identified. Starting with the Seoul hanok declaration in 2008, the approval of the food service business began to increase, and the floating population increased with the restoration of the Suseong Valley in 2012, and the concentration of food service business increased significantly on the waterway (Jahamun-ro 7-gil). Since the designation of Ikseon-dong as an urban environment readjustment zone in 2004, the approval of new food service business has been very low until around 2014, when the cooperative establishment committee is dissolved, and as the district unit plan for the preservation of hanok and regional management is being established, the number of new permits has exploded to date and restaurants in hanok conservation zones has been active.