Remarkable Service: A guide to winning and keeping customers for servers, managers, and restaurant owners
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Call Number: TX 911.3 .M27 R453 2013 CRANBROOK
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Customer Perception and Application of Gap in Service Quality of Star-Category Hotel in Varanasi
Accommodation being the integral part of tourism plays an important role in offering customer satisfaction through its Hospitality Service Quality. Guests are the judges of Service Quality and expectations greatly influence the resulting level of satisfaction. To meet or exceed the customer expectations, organisations must fully understand all service attributes that contributes to customer value and lead to satisfaction and loyalty. The study attempts to analyse the study of service quality in Hotels of Varanasi to check degree of customer's needs and expectations comparing results with perceived quality. Varanasi covers large number of tourists from all over the globe making it microcosm of world having flavour of 'Vasudhaiv Kutumbkam'. The research presents and discusses a comprehensive analysis of the expectations and perceptions of key stakeholders, the customers, managers and employees of hotels, along with a service performance analysis, using both qualitative and quantitative data collection. The research will aim at testing of Gap Model, i.e. identification of gaps when the hotel services quality in particular observation sample is concerned. The finding would help the hotel managers of Varanasi to recognize guests needs, wants in a better way and consequently improving their quality of Services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Impact of Food and Beverage Service Practices on Customer Satisfaction in the Food Outlets, Chandigarh, Inda
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Hospitality is an umbrella term covering a variety of businesses, including restaurants, hotels, resorts and casinos. In a highly competitive hotel industry, individual hoteliers must find ways to make their products and services stand out among the others. The main aim of this study was to investigate service quality and customers satisfactions in hospitality industry: the case of selected hotels in Jimma town in Ethiopia, by applying a modified version of the LODGING QUALITY INDEX model. In line with the objective, descriptive and explorative research methods were employed to analyze the data collected through questionnaire from a sample of 172 respondents and correlation and regression analysis were used to see the cause and effect relationships. The key finding showed that there was a negative gap between actual service and expected service in all dimensions of lodging quality index and significant and positive relationships of five service quality dimensions and customers satisfactions.