Chapter 14: Marketing Foodservice Flashcards
Customer Satisfaction
Positive, neutral, or negative feelings about the value received from a product.
Customer Loyalty
Frequency with which a customer consistently purchases a specific brand.
Marketing Mix
Combination of product, price, place, and promotion to satisfy target market.
Target Market
Customer with common characteristics for which an organization creates products/services.
Promotion
Use of communication to inform and influence consumers. It is used to increase public awareness about a new product or brand; also, it is used to renew interest in a product that is waning in popularity.
Market Segmentation
Division of total market into groups of customers who have similar needs, wants, values, and buying behavior.
Psychographic Variables
Motives and lifestyle characteristics.
Brand
Name, term, design, symbol, or feature that identifies one seller’s good or service as different from another’s.
Brand Loyalty
Repeated customer purchase of a specific brand.
Brand Equity
Value of a brand.
Intangibility of Services
Inability of services to be seen, touched, tasted, smelled, or possessed before buying.
Atmospherics
Physical elements in an operation’s design that appeal to customer’s emotions.
Inseparability
Inability to separate production and service.
Perishability of Services
Services cannot be stored for future sale.
Heterogeneity of Service
Variation and lack of uniformity in the performance by different service employees.
Situation Analysis
Identification of marketing opportunities and challenges.
Tactic
Specific action.
Marketing Plan
Written document or blueprint governing an organization’s marketing activities.
Market Share
Percentage of industry sales for a product.
Marketing Concept
A management philosophy about how an organization views customers and the sale of their product. In marketing terms, a product is a good, service, or idea.
The 5 Marketing Philosophies
- Manufacturing/Production Concept
- Product Concept
- Selling Concept
- Marketing Concept
- Societal Marketing Concept
Manufacturing/Production Concept
Based on the belief that customers favor products that are available and highly affordable; thus, companies should focus on production and distribution efficiency.
Product Concept
Based on the belief that customers prefer existing products and product forms; thus, companies should develop good versions of these products.
Selling Concept
Based on the belief that customers will not buy enough of the organization’s product unless the organization undertakes a large selling and promotion effort.
Marketing Concept
Based on the belief that organizations should determine the needs and wants of target markets and deliver desired satisfaction more effectively and efficiently than competitors.
Societal Marketing Concept
Based on the belief that organizations should determine needs and wants of target markets and deliver desired satisfaction more effectively and efficiently than competitors in a way that maintains or improves the consumer’s and society’s well-being.
Marketing
An organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders.