The SERVQUAL model proposes that customers evaluate the quality of a service on five distinct
dimensions: reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy, and tangibles. The SERVQUAL instrument
consists of 22 statements for assessing consumer perceptions and expectations regarding the quality of a
service. Perceived service quality results from comparisons by consumers of expectations with their
perceptions of service delivered by the service providers (Zeithaml et al., 1990). It can be argued that the
factor underpinning the delivering of good perceived service quality is actually meeting the expectations
of the customers. Thus, excellent service quality is exceeding the customers’ expectations. Zeithaml and
Bitner (2000) suggested that customer expectations are beliefs about a service that serve as standards
against which service performance is judged.