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Title.......................................................................................................................................................1
Executive Summary...............................................................................................................................1
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................1
Aim........................................................................................................................................................4
Objective...............................................................................................................................................4
Research Question.................................................................................................................................5
Literature Review..................................................................................................................................5
Service Quality............................................................................................................................5
Customer Satisfaction..................................................................................................................6
Research Methodology..........................................................................................................................8
Quantitative Data.........................................................................................................................9
Survey.........................................................................................................................................9
Sampling.....................................................................................................................................9
Judgmental Sampling..................................................................................................................9
Results.......................................................................................................................................10
Descriptive Statistics.................................................................................................................10
Reliability Analysis...................................................................................................................11
Inferential Statistics...................................................................................................................13
Discussion...........................................................................................................................................14
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................15
Recommendations...............................................................................................................................17
References...........................................................................................................................................17
Title
Executive Summary
This paper is an empirical study on three Starbucks coffee outlet at Clarke Quay in Singapore.
This study deals with determining the customer perception towards the grade and level of service
of Starbucks as well as how it is impacting the satisfaction levels of customer. Indepth study of
literature for review was done focussing mainly about the quality of service dimensions and
satisfaction levels of customer. The main aim of this research is to know about the perception of
Starbuck clients towards its quality of service and the extent to which it keeps them satisfied.
However, research question is that, whether Starbucks at Clarke Quay in Singapore provide a good
quality service to its customers and keeps them satisfied.
Furthermore, research methodology of primary data has been followed up for this study, whereas,
for data collection methodology, survey and questionnaire of 220 customers has been conducted
in order to get in depth findings and information on current situation. To analyse the data,
Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics was conducted to know the effect regarding service
quality aspects about Starbucks upon its satisfaction levels of customer.
However, data shows that Starbucks coffee shop at Clarke Quay in Singapore is mainly impacted
by the Facility Effectiveness, Assurance, Staff Reliability & Tangibility Service quality
dimensions.
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Customer is satisfied by meeting his expectations and this provides the basis for analyzing high
quality of service, customer loyalty and also low quality of service if performance is below the
expectations of customer.
Initially Starbucks outlet mainly sells the rich quality coffee beans and equipments. In 1971, with
only 6 outlets it sold coffee beans. Later in 1987, the chairman Howard Schultz came up with
Starbucks by financing and made the U.S. version of Starbucks in accordance to Italian coffee
shops. Today Starbucks has 6,000 stores in 30 countries. The growth rate is at 6 per day. Reasons
for this rapid growth are market positioning, good products and services and marketing strategy.
Operations of Starbucks at Singapore and a completely licensed Hong Kong based entity Maxim’s
Caterers LTD and an operator chief of restaurants of several brands of business in Asian
continent. Initial Starbucks outlet commenced on 14th December the first Canon in 1996 in the
strategically located Liat towers, along the length of the famous strip of Orchard street shopping
in the country.
In the cafe, Starbucks offers more than the best coffee in all parts of the world. The people are
friendly; the music is good and is known as a place which is comfortable and a place where
meetings could be held. The design as well as environment of the outlets are specially constructed
in a way to be welcoming & the cafe provides their customers the personal space that they require.
With sofas, chairs, tables, benches and tables of meetings hall implies that there is something for
everyone. Those who seek the calm and bit break are able to relax and getaway in a flexible chair
and lost in a book, and if some want a to meet close besties can be buckled upon sofa with a cup
of coffe as you feel it's your house.
People are familiar about the unremarkable success of this commercial by Schultz is undividable
from its unique concepts of culture ( employee corporate and, people-oriented) is seen here.
Starbucks values its employees to the highest level. Inorder to survive in long term and achieve
success, market position a good relationship of mutual trust has to be maintained with employees
and customers and Starbucks believe in this concept very strong.
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They are retailing their not only just coffe but also coffee buying experience in their coffee house
it's about the warm and comfortable environment as well as interior designing with a touch of art,
aesthetic and humanities. Starbucks never leaves a chance it takes care of everything from coffee
bags napkins to catalogue and the success is mainly because of its approach used.
According to Han et al. (2018), says that brand positioning will play a huge role in customer
loyalty not brand image many researchers proved it.(Adinegara & Turker, 2016). For instance,
according to the finding of Saulina & Syah (2018).Moreover, the entity found that there is
reduction in customer loyalty as they changed their customer profile customer decreased their
number of visiting from 18 to 5 in a month. The management team worked hard together inorder
to meet customer expectations and increase the business. They minimised their service time to 3
min or less with the view to recover their strength.
Every. Outlet has customer comment card which helps the management to keep in touch with
customers wants and "The Starbucks experience", suggestions of new products etc. Starbucks
promise is that they provide coffee that the customer wants to taste. They even provide sample
before they purchase it. Their main advantage is the ability to successfully leverage their
cornerstone product differentiation techniques by providing a high quality products mix of rich
quality drinks and eatables. Starbucks built its brand value by providing unique Starbucks
experience to each customer this helped them to build customer loyalty. And their approach
towards customers and employees framed a trusted relationship between them which will help
them to survive in long term and development of business operation into international markets.
Aim and objective
The aim and objective of the study is to ascertain the quality of service of Starbucks outlet at
Clarke Quay in Singapore.
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1.3 Research Question
Does Starbucks at Clarke Quay in Singapore serve high quality service to it's clients?
Chapter 2 :
Literature review
From the above image suggested by Gronroos (1988) states quality evaluated in to aspects:
Technical quality and Functional quality. The functional quality aspect associated with the
service process, delivery and performance. In technical aspect the quality of service assessed on
what customer actually received.
5. Recovery
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6. Reputation and credibility.
Example: If we go to resturant for dinner we not only evaluate the food, taste of food but also how
the services are provided i.e., friendliness of the waiter and speed in providing the service.
According to Parasuraman (1985), there are five factors of quality of service (SERVQUAL). They
are as follows:
Customer satisfaction is the main concept to focus. The entity's ability to identify, fulfill and meet
customer requirements well, is the technique for every entity.
According to Kotler & Keller (2009) "Satisfaction is the level of a felt state person resulting from
comparing a producer's perceived performance or outcome in relation to the person's
expectations." There are 3 levels of satisfaction not satisfied, satisfied, very satisfied.
According to Tjiptono (2014) To measure satisfaction levels of customer there are 4 methods
namely:
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a. Directly reported satisfaction: Every dissatisfied, dissatisfied, negative, satisfied, very satisfied
are the scales used to measure the questions carried out directly.
b. Derived dissatisfaction: The amount of customer expectations and the amount of performance
they feel are the two things on which the questions are asked.
c. Problem Analysis: The problems they face are related to company offer and suggestions to
companies for any improvement to that problem are the two criterias mainly focused here.
d. Importance- performance analysis: The respondents were asked to rank how well the company's
performance in each element or attribute. In this strategy respondents are asked to vote for various
elements.
The image of coffee shop business depends mainly upon, the quality of the services and flavour
characteristics of coffee which represents a typical competitive advantage. The research that has
been conducted by Susanty & Kenny (2015) has found that the image of the brand Starbucks
coffee affects a large on the satisfaction and loyalty of customers. The company should focus on
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meeting the requirements of the consumers to create and improve the satisfaction of the
customers, to create a relationship that lasts long term to take advantage of the mutual. In addition
to this, the satisfaction of customers directly promotes and develops the customer loyalty. Always
preserving appearance & taste of coffee, service quality is important for the creation and
satisfaction of customers. Parasuraman et al (1985) conducted a survey on the dissimilarity among
expectations and actual experience about quality of service experienced to go forward and an
entity works hard to achieve the customer expectations. Apart from this, the quality of the service
shows an impact on the level of customer satisfaction. (Marie, 2019) as well as the satisfaction of
customers increases loyalty (Tuan, 2016). Therefore, Sutawidjaya & Suharyanti (2014), who
carries out the investigations into the business of restaurants in Java West, identified that the
service quality has an impact upon increase on levels of satisfaction of customers. The goal is to
know the service quality and customer satisfaction by the SERVQUAL model for determining
significance as well as the service quality in the Starbucks outlet of Clarke Quay in Singapore
region.
Chapter 3
Methodology
Methodology applied here is empirical research. Quantitative study proposes and tests
hypotheses relating to service quality of Starbucks outlet at Clarke Quay in Singapore.
3.2 Data collection sources
3.2.1 Initial data:( primary data)
Initial data was optained by respondents using survey method with the help of structured
questionnaire. The scale applied to estimate quality of service about Starbucks was SERVQUAL
which is a 22 factor scale developed to evaluate perception levels of customer in service and retail
businesses.
3.2.2 Secondary Data:
Information from secondary sources like journals, research papers, magazines, would also
be considered for the study.
3.3 quantitative data
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Computable data refers to the data which can be counted by using numbers associated with [ CITATION
OEC16 \l 18441 ]. The data used in this study will enable us to quantify the service quality dimensions of
Starbucks outlet at Clarke Quay in Singapore. It will help us to understand Tangibility, Reliability,
Responsiveness, Empathy, Assurance & Facility Effectiveness.
3.4 Survey
A structured questionnaire was prepared based on the twenty two factor SERVQUAL scale. This
structured questionnaire was imparted to the customers visiting Starbucks outlet at Clarke Quay in
Singapore.
3 4.1 Sampling
A. Judgmental Sampling
To survey the customers of Starbucks outlet at Clarke Quay, the sampling technique that was
adopted was Judgmental sampling. Self answerable questionnaire was circulated among 220
customers visited the outlet.
Chapter 4
Results
Descriptive Statistics
Sum of 220 questionnaires considered useful and valid for the study analysis.
From table 1 we noticed that: 114 womenand 106 men customers. Majority in the sample age was
between 20 and 40 years. Out of 20 students respondents, 159 were working adults. 45 per cent of
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respondents worked in private sector jobs, 26 per cent were government servants. In term of
salary 68 per cent of the respondents had their salaries below 10000 SGD.
4.2 Reliability
Cronbach’s alpha reliability analysis was conducted on the independent variables in order to
determine the reliability of the instrument used. 0.70 is generally the acceptable level for
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reliability measure for social science studies. Alpha values ranged from 82.3 to 89.7, thus
indicating an acceptable level of reliability (see Table 2).
Table 3 states the mean scores and standard deviation of satisfaction for each factors of quality
service. Average value for the facility effectiveness is 3.72, while for empathy it is 3.68 and for
assurance it is 3.60. These factors shows (facility effectiveness, empathy, assurance) have
received the greater level of customer satisfaction. Furthermore, reliability, responsiveness and
tangibility have the least satisfaction averages.
Results of regression reported in Table 4,5,6 shows six factors of service quality received
indicated 74.5% satisfaction level of customer regarding Starbucks outlet at Clarke Quay in
Singapore (F=112.513, p <0.01), hence confirmed the fitness of the model. It is concluded that
facility effectiveness shows the strongest impact on satisfaction levels of customer (β=0.433, p
<0.01), assurance (β=0.307, p <0.01), reliability (β=0.230, p <0.01), followed by tangibility
(β=0.078, p <0.05). However, staff responsiveness and empathy has immaterialistic impact
regarding satisfaction levels of customer.
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Table 6
Testing of hypothesis Results (n=220)
It was found that four out of six factors have significant and favorable influence upon the
satisfaction level of customer whereas two items hadinsignificant influence. The factor with
negative impact is staff responsiveness. Responsiveness mainly comprised of updating client with
prompt services, quickly and perfectly solving their requirements.
In this study it was found that facility effectiveness scored the highest beta value which means
that this factor shows most favorable influence upon client service while staff attentiveness scored
least beta value which means this dimension has scope for improvement.
The results from this research is similar as results of other studies on quality of service such as
(Zhang & Prasongsukarn, 2017; Alsitrawi, 2016; Parasuraman et al., 1988). They also agree with
(Paryani, 2011) except for tangibility. Moreover, the results contradict with the results of Tuan,
(2016) where none of the dimensions had any influence upon satisfaction of customer.
4.5 Conclusion.
From the study and discussion of the result. it can be said that the customers of Starbucks coffee
outlet have an average range of customer expectations fulfilment with regards to quality of service
dimensions. From 5 factors of quality service, only three factors which impact the customer
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satisfaction are Assurance, Staff Reliability and Tangibility. However, staff responsiveness and
empathy showed immaterialistic impact on satisfaction levels of customer.
Empathy and staff response in the case of Starbucks customers are having insignificant values.
This simply denotes that in this region where the study was conducted, the staffs are not giving
attention to their customers and not dealing with the customers in caring fashion. So, it can be
concluded that Starbucks should try to improve the factors to improve customer quality service.
In addition to above, the coffee branch team is advised to increase taste, appearance , tangible
form of beverage, maintain comfortablity, clean and tidy as well as the recording system to be
even more quick to provide information and complaint handling so as to improve satisfied
customers.
Chapter 5
Personal reflection
By the study of Starbucks early history shows that they paid a higher price for rich
quality gourmet coffee beans and to manage supply chain. But also the product
quality and service reliability were of main focus instead of cost reduction. Initially
they need not to concentrate on market value, productivity and profitability, word
of mouth was mere advertisement. They stood out for 3 things: the coffee,
Starbucks experience and it's people. This made Starbucks to enter into
international market but now it is suffering growing pains. Due to economy slow
down which in turn made the customers to cut off their extra expenses, this also
led the competitors such as McDonald's to offer gourmet coffee for less money.
Howard Schultz, CEO understood the need to improve its market share,
productivity and profitability by introducing 3 operational changes. They are it's
new product, pike street light roast coffee; the barustas grind fresh coffee beans to
add aroma, and the espresso machines were replaced by old style machines to low
the cost and allow the customer to see their coffee prepared. Finally, they can find
many ways to improve its operations, and processes by maintaining quality and
reliability of goods and services.
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