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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelNowadays, we can see there are some changes in every sectors of life,
mainly in economic structure which is often followed by changing in social
structure. People are forced to work harder to gain more income, this means also
they have no more or less time to prepare meals, especially in the families where
each couple has a job, so they usually prefer to go to restaurants. There are growing
numbers of restaurants, ranging from upscale restaurants to take away sen-ice
restaurants, in the Netherlands, we can easily find take away service restaurants
because almost every restaurant provides take away sen-ice and even man take
away service restaurants.
Each restaurant has to know how to communicate its product and sendees to its
customers to survive in the business, this means the restaurants has to do marketing.
There are seven marketing mix (Booms and Bitner, 1991), which can be a base for
a restaurant to win the competition because customers always consider these
variables before choosing a restaurant:
1. Product
2. Price
3. Promotion
4. Place
5. Process
6. Physical evidence
7. Participants or people
These variables are very vital to any restaurant, especially in marketing. Ignoring
any of them could influence the success or failure of a restaurant because people
always consider these variables before making decision to choose certain
restaurants. Oriental Swan Restaurant which is located in Soesterberg, The
Netherlands, is one of many restaurants providing take away service. It is very
interesting to know what the customers' opinion about seven marketing variables of
this restaurant and also which variables are considered important in the customers'
point of view. This research uses questionnaires of twenty two questions about
marketing variables to around twenty customers of take away service in Oriental
Swan Restaurant whose age are over seventeen years old. The questionnaires were
spread in 6 weeks and after that, these questionnaires were analysed using described
variables technique with frequency tables to find the modus of customers' opinion
about each marketing variable of Oriental Swan restaurant and the modus of
customers' opinion about which factors are considered important.
This research will be useful for management to know about the customers' opinion
about each marketing variables and which marketing variables are considered
important by the most customers in choosing take away service in Oriental Swan
Restaurant. This knowledge can be used in improving the take away service of
Oriental Swan Restaurant.