Studies related to emotional labor conducted on hotel enterprises have mostly focused on the causal relationships between emotional labor and employee attitudes, such as satisfaction and immersion,and positive organizational behavior (Lam and Chen, 2012; Lee and Ok, 2012). The present study shows that in family-style restaurants,the stress of employees who perform front-line customer service is expressed through the emotional labor and emotional dissonance they experience in work situations. Employee stress was thus connected to turnover intent, a negative employee attitude variable,confirming that efficient stress control is closely related to emotional labor, and turnover intent can be reduced through effectivestress control.