Customer satisfaction is a result of whether a customer’s perceptions of a given service encounter lives up to his or her expectations of that encounter (Oliver, 1981). Customer satisfaction is viewed as an emotional state that occurs when a customer experiences a positive satisfaction of his expectations of a purchase encounter.
Oh’s (1999) study tested the relationships among perceived service quality, perceived value, customer satisfaction, and repurchase intention among hotel guests.
He found that significant path relationships exist between perceived service quality and customer satisfaction. Moreover, customer satisfaction was positively related to both repurchase
intention and intent to spread positive word of mouth. In terms of restaurants, when the quality of service and/or product as well as price exceed customer expectations, the customer is likely to be satisfied (Bitner, Booms, & Tetreault, 1990).
Customer perception of the quality of restaurant service directly affects both customer satisfaction and revisiting intention (Kim & Kim, 2005). Based on these studies, researchers found that customer satisfaction is related to internal and external expectation factors