Customer Perceptions Towards The Service Quality: A Case Study of Bonchon Chicken Restaurant, Olongapo Branch
Customer Perceptions Towards The Service Quality: A Case Study of Bonchon Chicken Restaurant, Olongapo Branch
Customer Perceptions Towards The Service Quality: A Case Study of Bonchon Chicken Restaurant, Olongapo Branch
ABSTRACT
This independent study aims to investigate the customer perceptions towards the service quality
between customer expectations and perceptions. The survey research via questionnaire was used
to collect the primary data. The target population of this research was customers who prior
experience with Bonchon Restaurant, Olongapo City branch that was the location for studying in
this research and the sample size is 50. In this research, the five SERVQUAL dimensions –
reliability, assurance, tangible, empathy, and responsiveness were used to measure customer
expectations and perceptions on the service quality of the restaurant. From this study, the
restaurant’s service performance failed to meet customer expectations in all five dimensions.
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INTRODUCTION
This chapter describes research proposal of the study. With introduction about background,
statement of problem, intention and reason for study, research objective, major research question
and sub-question development, assumptions, scope of research, and benefits of research. At the
The purpose of this independent study is to gather opinions of customers who experience the
services of at BonChon Chiken restaurant and to achieve a better understanding of how the
customers perceive and experience to the service provide. To find out the expectation levels of
services at the restaurant in customer’s mind. Also, to identify the problem areas regarding
satisfaction.
Customer expectations are beliefs of an individual about service performance before they
receives the actual service delivery (Zeithaml et al., 2006, P. 81). In evaluating service quality,
it is a comparison of customer’s expectation with the actual performance of service, and the
different between customer expectations and perceptions of service is the “customer gap” in
which a firm needs to close that gap. Moreover, the expectations and perceptions of customers
are dynamic and constantly change over the time, so a firm must be continuously examining
The offer from Bonchon Restaurant is endless when it comes to Korean food, it is fast and cheap.
These are only some reasons why people love BonChon. Even though Bonchon already created
One of the ways to provide a good quality service is by presenting good products, today’s
generation is focusing on a healthy lifestyle and avoiding fast-food restaurant. Bonchon should
This study shows the Gap for Service Quality and shows how the Administrative Division reacts
with the current gap of the proponents. In making a good quality service administrative
BUREAUCRACY
Upon the execution the study which is improvement of the service of BonChon restaurant, the
proponents considered bureaucracy for better structure for the command. It always gives a clear
division of labor, separation or personal and organizations assets, hierarchical chain of command
Figure 1.1
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5. Significance of the Study
The significance of this study are to understand the consumer perceptions towards service quality
of the BonChon Chicken restaurant that the company can use the results to develop the quality of
service to compete with competitors, and to understand the main problems related to service
quality issues from the perspective of consumers who experienced it for success in delivery good
service and improve the services to more efficiency and effectiveness. Moreover, the business
owner can use the valuable information from this study as a guideline for development the
This study has limited with short period of time and small budgets. In this study examines only
one specific area at Olongapo City branch to represent the overall perceptions of customers at
Also, this research is limited only to BonChon Chicken restaurant. It may imply that the results
SERVQUAL has five basic categories: RATER – Reliability, Assurance, Tangibles, Empathy,
and Responsiveness.
Reliability: the ability to perform the promised service accurately with consistency of
performance, such as commit the service right the first time, and give a service as its promises.
Assurance: the courtesy (i.e. politeness, respect, friendliness) of employees and competence -
skill and knowledge to perform the service of employees, as well as their ability to obtain trust
and confidence.
Tangibles: the factors such as physical environment, the décor of the restaurant, facilities, and
the appearance of the employees in neat, equipment and materials used to provide the service.
Empathy: employees’ willingness to go beyond customer needs and they can delivery some
extra services such as providing personal caring, individual attention, and recognizing the regular
customers.
A restaurant is a place where people can go to release tension after work with friends or to relax
with family. People increase in dining out since their life is in a hurry so they do not have time
for cooking. As the result, there are many fast food and restaurants such as Jollibee, McDonalds.
KFC and other restaurants opened in a variety of places such as stand-alone, hotels, and
BonChon Chicken is crunchy, firm and low-fat seared chicken with the extraordinary frying
procedure and special sauce produce non-oily, yet more flavors. In this manner, this organization
previously set up their branch in Philippines, on this marketing plan they focus to buzz their
brand awareness in Philippines. Since Philippines is one of the developing business sectors in the
ASEAN which has huge monetary development that produces immense nourishment utilization,
particularly in terms of chicken consumption. The company strengthens the brand by promise in
high quality healthy products with reasonable price to customers, and realizes in the importance
service quality to obtain customers’ satisfaction. Therefore, this research studies the customer
perceptions towards service quality of BonChon Chicken restaurant in view of an interesting case
study that can use the results obtained for a service development and improvement in the future.
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Methods
1. Research Method
The research method used in this study was based on quantitative approach to gather primary
data. There are many types of quantitative research; however, this study used the survey research
via questionnaire to collect the data about attitudes of current customer at BonChon Chicken
restaurant.
2. Respondents
3. Sampling Design
In determining the sampling, there are two main types of samples: probability sampling and non
probability sampling for choosing samples (Jackson, 2008). Each type has a variety of methods.
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Probability sampling is a sampling technique in which each member of population has an equal
chance of being selected (Jackson, 2008). There are several techniques; however, the main three
types of probability sampling are: “simple random sampling” each member of the population has
a known and equal probability to be chosen as part of the sample; “stratified random sampling”
divides population into subsamples to ensure that the subgroups are representative of the
population; “cluster sampling” often use when the population is too large for random sampling
method
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Nonprobability sampling is a subjective procedure in which the individual members of the
population is an unknown of being selected as part of the sample by generating samples whoever
easily to obtain (Jackson, 2008). The three basic types are: “convenience sampling” is a basic for
selecting a sample that is available and convenient; “judgment sampling” allows researchers in
selecting a sample that is appropriate for the study; “quota sampling” involves selecting each
Sampling Technique: To accomplish the research objectives and to answer the research
questions, the purposive or judgment sampling is a procedure in which allows a researcher used
their own judgment to select a sample that is most appropriate for purposes of a study The
participants were chosen from the exiting customers after they visited at BonChon restaurant.
The survey location is in the department store, in which people are busy with urgent business,
and it would be very difficult to request the particular respondents that tend to be quite in a hurry
to answer the questions after they dined at the restaurant willing to answer the questionnaire.
experience) with the actual performance of service and the different between customer
expectations and perceptions of service is the “customer gap” or GAP 5 in which a firm needs to
close that gap (Based on SERVQUAL measurement of service quality, Table 1.1 presents the
statements in questionnaire in this study were divided into five dimensions as follows:
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respondents for the rest of three parts, this study applies the principal of SERVQUAL model in
the questionnaire. In Part 2, the questionnaire was developed with twenty-two questions to
examine the customers’ expectations on service quality at BonChon restaurant. In Part 3, the
survey evaluates the importance of each service dimension. In Part 4, the survey explores
customers’ perceptions regarding service quality at the restaurant with twenty-two questions. The
Table 1.2 shows the data results that present the participants’ information collected from the
survey.
Statistical Treatment
Standard
Service Expectation Mea Mean of
Deviatio Rank
Dimensions ID n Dimension
n
Reliability E1 5.73 0.96
E2 5.79 1.09
E3 6.06 0.92 6 1
E4 6.31 0.86
E5 6.14 0.94
Assurance E6 5.95 0.96
E7 5.63 0.9 5.65 4
E8 5.59 0.87
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E9 5.43 0.95
Tangible E10 5.65 0.97
E11 5.59 0.96
5.6 5
E12 5.36 0.93
E13 5.79 0.85
Empathy E14 5.64 1.03
E15 5.81 0.91
E16 5.84 0.93 5.71 3
E17 5.79 1.01
E18 5.47 1.01
Responsivenes
E19 5.98 0.87
s
E20 5.46 1.04 5.79 2
E21 6.04 0.9
E22 5.69 0.88
Standard
Service Expectation Mean of
Mean Deviatio Rank
Dimensions ID Dimension
n
Reliability P1 4.88 0.93
P2 4.84 0.97
4.82 1
P3 4.72 0.88
P4 4.8 0.92
P5 4.85 1.04
Assurance P6 4.71 0.91
4.66 3
P7 4.74 0.86
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P8 4.6 0.84
P9 4.57 0.79
Tangible P10 4.83 0.72
P11 4.83 0.8
4.8 2
P12 4.69 0.76
P13 4.86 0.77
Empathy P14 4.88 0.88
P15 4.48 0.9
P16 4.55 0.86 4.65 4
P17 4.5 0.99
P18 4.85 0.82
Responsivenes
s
P19 4.74 0.89
P20 4.51 0.98 4.64 5
P21 4.63 0.92
P22 4.67 0.91
Responsivenes
5.79 4.64 -1.15 2
s
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Expectations have been defined as beliefs of an individual about delivery of service that they
expected to get from a service as a standard level of service performance in their judgment.
Perceptions have been defined as attitudes of an individual after they have received and
Reliability was the highest expectation score and it was the highest perception score. For
restaurant services, it implied that customers expected in a very high level of service on
reliability, and they perceived high level of reliability service dimension from the restaurant.
Customers wanted to get the service right at the first time and they wanted the restaurant to show
sincere interest in solving their problems. Therefore, reliability was the main problem of
BonChon Chicken restaurant. Reliability was viewed as the most important dimension, so the
Responsiveness is the second highest expectation. In contrast, it is the lowest perception scores
the responsiveness is the second highest gap score among five dimensions. It implied that
BonChon Chicken restaurant did not provide prompt service to customers. The restaurant did not
response to their request immediately, and did not inform them when service will be performed,
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and lack of willingness to help them. Therefore, responsiveness was the main problem BonChon
Chicken restaurant. The responsiveness was viewed as the second important dimension that
customers expected to get from the restaurant’s employees. Thus, the restaurant need to improve
this dimension to show that they aware of good relationship with customers.
Empathy is the third highest gap among five dimensions for restaurant services, customers want
dimension, empathy is also need improvement. Although the gap is smaller when compared to
reliability and responsiveness dimension, BonChon Chicken restaurant should consider and
Assurance dimension is the second lowest gap among five dimensions. However, the result
showed that customers thought that this dimension is important for services. Also, they expected
the performance of BonChon Chicken restaurant.in high level of the restaurant’s staff that is
courtesy and has skills and knowledge to perform services. Therefore, the restaurant should
Tangible is the lowest expectation score. On the contrary, it is the second highest perception
score. Tangible is the lowest gap among five dimensions. It implied BonChon Chicken restaurant
match the customer expectation most when compared to all five dimensions. It can be said that
the restaurant has good facilities and equipment. An appearance of the restaurant’s employee in
neat and clean is necessary in the sanitary restaurant to establish a feeling of confidence and
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credibility for the customers. Therefore, tangible dimension is also important in improving
6. Conclusion
Service quality is an important key for business success because it provides a lot of benefits.
From this study, the customers of BonChon Chicken restaurant did not perceive the services
delivered from the restaurant as they expected. The restaurant needs to be aware of reliability
dimension as top priority and must emphasize on responsiveness. In addition, the restaurant
should train their employees, monitor their marketing communication, and conduct customer
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Please mark ✔in the statements that best fit to your answer.
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Part 1: Individual Information
1. Gender
1. Male
2. Female
2. Age
1. Under 25
2. 26 – 39
3. 40- 50
4. More than 50
3. Occupation
1. Student
3. Government employee
4. Entrepreneur
5. Others
1. Below 15,000
2. 15,001 – 30,000
3. 30,001 – 50,000
Based on your experiences of a restaurant, please think about the restaurant that delivers an
excellent quality of service. Please show the levels to which you think such an excellent
restaurant would execute the feature as below described by each statement. If you feel a feature
is Not at all important for an excellent restaurant such as one you have in mind, and then please
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select “1”; if you feel such a feature is Very important then please select “7”; or select an
Listed below are five features related to quality of service that a restaurant provide.
Please specify how important of each service feature is to you when you evaluate a restaurant
service quality. Please allocate a total of 100 points among the five features according to how
important of each feature is to you. If you think the feature is more important, you should
Based on your experiences of the service of BonChon Chicken Restaurant Olongapo City
branch, please indicate the extent to which you disagree or agree with the following statements in
all 22 questions. For each statement, select “1” if you strongly disagree, or select “7” if you
strongly agree, or select an appropriate choice in between if you feel less agree.
8 Employees at
Oishi Express have the
knowledge to perform
services
9 Employees at
BonChon have the
knowledge to answer
questions
15 Employees at
BonChon will be
patient and attentive
to your complaints
16 Employees at
BonChon understand
your needs
17 BonChon has
sincere and attentive
employees
Curriculum Vitae
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CECILIA R. ESTRADA
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Contact No: 09074742642
Email: [email protected]
OBJECTIVE:
TESOL and TEFL Certified. Highly-motivated Online Teacher. Extensive experience
in teaching children and adult. With a quite clutter-free environment that is purely dedicated to
my online classroom, looking to fill a position as a Tutot/Teacher in a company where I can
maximize my teaching experience, training abilities, and student developmental skills.
Organized, hardworking, and energetic. Wishing to leverage my passion for technology and
instruction to influence students.
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Responsibilities:
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Responsibilities:
• Teaches English to Chinese children and adult students
• Prepares classes using materials provided by the company
• Focuses on improving students listening, speaking skills and grammar
• Utilize the direct method to improve students on their learning skills
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ESL TUTOR
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MARICHU G. APILADO
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ACCOUNTING STAFF/ BENEFITS STAFF
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