The study examined the determinants and impacts of menu choice (familiar food versus novel food) in an authentic Chinese restaurant setting. A conceptual model is built to explore the linkages between determinants (perceived risk taking, physical environment, and service quality) and outcome...

This study proposed a conceptual model to examine how customers’ perceptions of physical environment influence disconfirmation, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty for first-time and repeat customers in upscale restaurants. Using a structural equation modeling analysis, this study...

The ultimate goal of this research undertaking was to determine the best fit model involving the following exogenous variables: service quality, customer loyalty, and green marketing practices to endogenous variable – guests’ satisfaction. For the purpose of data collection, a survey...

The consumer perception of the relation between food and health is increased his importance. This situation generates business opportunities, when his effect is positive (for example "functional food"), or limitations or reductions in the markets (for example "food with risk perception"). This...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in Journal of Marketing Practice: Applied Marketing Science, published by and copyright Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.

During the last decade much research has been done on consumer perceptions in the so-called pure services with scant attention being devoted to the analysis of retail services associated with the marketing of goods. However, in recent years the service quality debate received much attention and...

The developments of retailer venture in Indonesia, particularly in Medan city has been growing recently. These were indicated by more and more investors who are running business in the same retailer field, no matter small scale or big scale business venture. Medan city retailer ventures have...