Title :
Impact of scenario-based customer process flow on customer emotion and loyalty
Author :
Zhang, Yuexian ; Ma, Qinhai
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Bus. Adm., Northeastern Univ., Shenyang
Abstract :
This paper tries to explore the effect of customer process flow on customer emotion and loyalty by analysing three customer process flows of presenting fruits in restaurant service under the guidance of scenario-based empirical research method. Using the analysis technique of mean, ANOVA, multiple comparisons, it concludes that delight emotion and loyalty level of presenting fruits in pre-dinner is higher than those in in-dinner and post-dinner, which provides empirical evidence for improving restaurant service process and enhancing customer loyalty. In addition, this research provides good revelation and reference in building customer process flow consciousness and effectively designing customer process flow.
Keywords :
catering industry; customer profiles; customer satisfaction; customer services; ANOVA; customer emotion; customer loyalty; restaurant service process; scenario-based customer process flow; Analysis of variance; Buildings; Customer satisfaction; Customer service; Process design; Customer emotion; Customer loyalty; Customer process flow;
Conference_Titel :
Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, 2008. IEEE/SOLI 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2012-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2013-1
DOI :
10.1109/SOLI.2008.4686356