The document describes the components of a service blueprint for a restaurant, including the physical evidence customers see, their actions during the service, interactions with onstage employees, the line of visibility separating frontstage and backstage work, activities of backstage employees, internal interactions between employees, and supporting processes like scheduling and kitchen appliances. It then provides a detailed description of how each component is demonstrated during a customer's experience at the restaurant from being seated to ordering food to paying the bill.
The document describes the components of a service blueprint for a restaurant, including the physical evidence customers see, their actions during the service, interactions with onstage employees, the line of visibility separating frontstage and backstage work, activities of backstage employees, internal interactions between employees, and supporting processes like scheduling and kitchen appliances. It then provides a detailed description of how each component is demonstrated during a customer's experience at the restaurant from being seated to ordering food to paying the bill.
The document describes the components of a service blueprint for a restaurant, including the physical evidence customers see, their actions during the service, interactions with onstage employees, the line of visibility separating frontstage and backstage work, activities of backstage employees, internal interactions between employees, and supporting processes like scheduling and kitchen appliances. It then provides a detailed description of how each component is demonstrated during a customer's experience at the restaurant from being seated to ordering food to paying the bill.
The document describes the components of a service blueprint for a restaurant, including the physical evidence customers see, their actions during the service, interactions with onstage employees, the line of visibility separating frontstage and backstage work, activities of backstage employees, internal interactions between employees, and supporting processes like scheduling and kitchen appliances. It then provides a detailed description of how each component is demonstrated during a customer's experience at the restaurant from being seated to ordering food to paying the bill.
Components of Blueprint: 1) Physical evidence: This is what the customer can see and use , includes the restaurant, tables and chairs, menu, cooked meal, and receipt 2) Customer Actions: what customers do during the service experience, includes visiting the restaurant, sits at table, order meal, eat meal and pay for meal. 3) Line of interaction: It is the direct interactions between the customer and the organization. 4) Onstage contact person: what customers see and who they interact with, including greeting the customer, showing customer the table, taking the order and delivering the meal. 5) Line of visibility: A key characteristic of service blueprinting is that it distinguishes between what customers experience “front stage” and the activities of employees and support processes “back stage,” where customers can’t see them. Between the two lies what is called the line of visibility. 6) Backstage contact person: all other employee actions, preparations, or responsibilities customers don’t see but makes the service possible, includes assigning the table, adding order to queue to be cooked, preparing food and processing payment. 7) Line of internal interaction: It separates contact employees from those who do not directly support interactions with customers/users 8) Support processes: Many support processes involve a lot of information, including the scheduling system, kitchen appliances and point of sales system. Detailed Description: First the physical evidence when the customer arrives at the restaurant, a valet parks their car. They leave their coats in the coatroom and enjoy a drink in the bar area while waiting for their table. The act concludes with them being escorted to a table and seated. Then the Customer actions when the customer reach the table in the dining room, he will sit, review the menu and place the order. And then the line of interaction between the customer and the onstage contact person. The onstage contact person includes greeting the customer and showing him his table in the restaurant, provides suggestions for food, taking the customer’s order and delivering the meal to the customer. Then the line of visibility where the employee or the organizational processes become invisible to the customer. After the line of visibility, the backstage contact person will occur which is behind the scenes activities to support front stage activities, and it includes the waiter assigning the table to the customer, then adding order to queue to be cooked, preparing the food that the customer has ordered and processing the payment. After that the line of internal interaction which separates employees who have direct customer contact with those who don’t directly support customer. Then the support process which includes the scheduling system and the kitchen appliances.