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Customer Satisfaction Towards Products and Services of Mcdonalds in Lipa City, Batangas
Customer Satisfaction Towards Products and Services of Mcdonalds in Lipa City, Batangas
By
Arellano, Khrys Ythyl
Dizon, Joyce Ann
Lubigan, Mikee
Magpile, Kimberly
Reyes, Cresel
2019
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Approval Sheet
This research entitled “Customer Satisfaction Towards Product and Services of McDonalds in
Lipa City, Batangas” prepared submitted by; Arellano, Khrys Ythyl, Dizon, Joyce Ann, Lubigan, Mikee,
Magpile, Kimberly, and Reyes, Cresel in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the
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Acknowledgement
This research humbly acknowledged with deep gratefulness and appreciation the generous and
priceless assistance extended by the following individual without whom this research work would not be
realized:
Ms. Daisy Cepillo, our enthusiastic Research adviser, for helping us and guiding the work of a
research by teaching proper instruction in doing our study.
Our family, who have been praying earnestly to complete successfully this study and who have
been so supportive to our financial needs; and
The Master Teacher, Our LORD ALMIGHTY, for His Immeasurable Love and Mercy.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE i
Approval sheet ii
Acknowledgement iii
Table of contents iv
CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Introduction………………………………………………………………………. 1
Statement of the Problem………………………………………………………... 2
Null Hypothesis……………………………………………………………………
Significance of the study………………………………………………………….
Objectives………………………………………………………………………….
Scope and Delimitation…………………………………………………………...
Definition of terms………………………………………………………………..
Research Instrument…………………………………………………………….
Statistical Treatment…………………………………………………………….
Respondents of the study………………………………………………………..
Frequency and Percentage……………………………………………………...
Weighted Mean………………………………………………………………….
IV. PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA
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V. SUMMARY, FINDINGS, CONCLUSION, AND RECOMMENDATION
Summary………………………………………………………………………
Findings………………………………………………………………………..
Conclusion……………………………………………………………………..
Recommendation……………………………………………………………...
Abstract………………………………………………………………………..
Reference………………………………………………………………………
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CHAPTER 1
Introduction
Through so many years has past, many fast food chains were established and famous
through their product and services. We know that customer satisfaction is a one big help to them
to maintain and pursue their fast food chain. They will Satisfied as long as their customer loved
their products and have a satisfaction. The customer satisfaction brings help them to have a good
performance in society and inspired to continuous their establishing a Branches. Many Filipino
wants a delicious meal and attract them to new dishes that present by fast food chain. In this
research were conducting the sympathy of the customers that brings by a products and service of
McDonald's in Lipa City, Batangas. The satisfaction of a customer regarding the performance of
services and products. We acknowledge some customers that McDonalds one of the best fast
food chain in the world, what their satisfying products and services in McDonalds.
In this generation where society are surrounded by many kinds of fast food chain, it is
difficult to choose the best one. Fast food chain is one of the favorite Destination all over the
world. It is not only about the famous name of the fast food chain but the product and services
that the crews showed on their customers. McDonald is one of the popular fast food Chain in the
McDonald is one of the fast food chains which perform to the society with good benefits
to their customers. It serves a products and services which other fast food chain also did. Every
fast food chain has a unique trademark to have own identity to the mass. McDonald are known
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by their own products and own strategies to create a new customer’s and maintain them to their
product. Their logos, famous desserts, and meals are the best known by McDonald's. Some
customers choose to know more in McDonald’s because the service of the crews to their
customers are so gentle with assuring service and they display their sweet smile on their faces.
Making business, especially a fast food chain is not easy to handle nor to develop, it may
encounter some failures and lack of products. It would have a competitor’s which are higher than
your business, few investors and maintain the products and goods. We all know that McDonald’s
start with a little franchising until they reach what they are now today. They begin in a small and
unknowledgeable, but now you are the one who experience their successful through their
Hence, McDonald’s are not totally enough to all customers to satisfy they needs but
customers choose to patriotically them. McDonald’s shows that in the beginning of their service
to their beloved customers they will continuously servicing until the end of their restaurants.
They improving their products and services to the customers each season to create more
customers and satisfy to their products. Their improvements are not just only for the sake of their
McDonald's fast food chain restaurants starts in 1948 up to present. This fast food chain
owned by McDonald's brother namely Maurice "Mac" and Richard MacDonald in San Bernardo
California. Then Raymond Albert Kroc, an American restaurateur and a pioneer of the fast food
industry with worldwide McDonald’s enterprise, offered to begin a franchise in Des Plaines,
Illnois McDonald brothers launched also in the same year the McDonalds Corporation. Before
the end of the decade McDonalds outlets would top 1000 because of boosted by steady growth
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This study aims to show what customer needs and what services needs to satisfy then, we
all know that fast food chain like McDonalds is not all about the food that sell but also the
services that crew and staff give the customers like they said in their vision " To be the best
quick service restaurant experience". Being the best means providing put standing quality,
service, cleanliness, and value; so that we make every customer in every restaurant smile.
The purpose of this research is to know the capable of McDonald's through products and
services. The information about the satisfaction of their customers, because this research problem
is advantage to get a new information and sources in basis of fast food chain in chosen area. This
will help to new researcher for references and guide to their research.
products and service in their customers. And now McDonalds are interminable improving and
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Statement of the Problem
This research study aims to find out the customers satisfaction towards products and
□ Age
□ Gender
□ Civil Status
a. Employee’s performance
a. Delivery
c. Prices
d. Market
satisfaction?
Null Hypothesis
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c. Services and product do affect the customer’s satisfaction; services and products does not
Staff/Employee
They will have the eagerness to improve their services and undergo trainings and
Manager
Through this the manager will be able to think seminars and trainings for the employees
McDonalds
Researcher
The future researcher will use this as their basis in conducting their future study.
Objectives
2. To know the customers satisfaction towards products and services of McDonald’s in Lipa
City, Batangas.
3. To find out customers satisfaction affected by the employee performance, services and
products.
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4. To deliver the right and fair products that our customer should fell the satisfaction.
To give the best services that can give to the customer to satisfy them.
customer satisfaction.
This study focused on the customer’s satisfaction toward products and services in
McDonald and input classes of customer that dine to their every restaurant’s in the Philippines.
Furthermore, this study includes the different kinds of customer and their concerns and
Likewise, this study discussed the customer rights, demand and it is a measure of how
products and services – supplied by the company meet or surpass customer expectations,
customer satisfaction in incredibly important to the health of the business. If the customer is
unhappy, they’ll leave and no business can survive and compute long term with a serious churn
problem.
This study is conducted around four months only. The scope of this study is limited only
to the area of Lipa City, Batangas. The respondent will be maximum of one hundred customers
of McDonalds in Lipa City, Batangas. The study focuses only in Lipa City, Batangas.
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Churn – is when customer cancel their accounts, don’t renew their contract or remain your
Chapter 2
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Related Review Literature
and maximizing satisfaction to contribute payments for the goods and services of the company
availed. When a customer gets contented with the services or products it is known as satisfaction
(Goodman, 2009). Customer satisfaction can be defined in terms of meeting the expectations of
customer in terms of satisfaction (Malik, E, and Ghaffor, M. 2002). The quality of service that is
given to the consumers is lot more important not only for the consumers but also in the service
provides (Huber and et. al., 2001). Furthermore, service quality is an important generalization in
the service diligence and more momentous in financial service providers (Saghier et. al., 2013).
The service quality was developed as “the overall evaluation of a specific service firm that
results from comparing that firm’s performance with the customer’s general expectations of how
firms in that industry should perform” (Childambaram et. al., 2012). According to Zairi (2000),
the feeling of pleasure and expectation fulfillment is known as satisfaction if the products and
services will not satisfy the consumer’s passions they will be dissatisfied in other words
customer satisfaction is the products and services that fulfill the consumer’s expectation. Kotler
and Keller (2012) elaborate that customer dissatisfied if expectations are not filled by the
rendition, in terms of satisfied it is important that the performance matches the consumer’s
satisfaction. Specially, if the performance doesn’t match in the feelings of the consumer the rate
of their company become low but if the performance of match to their consumer’s expectation it
Customer Satisfaction in service has been defined as the degree which service
performance exceeds the customer’s expectations (Kumar. 2012; Lombard 2009; Santouriais and
Trivellas, 2010). In line with this, customer service is defined as satisfying customer anomalous
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well to make this restaurant their store of choice (Kuzak, 2012). Generally, customer’s
satisfaction played a vital role in every restaurant’s they choose to remortgage. According to
(Agulo et. al., 2015) give of awesome external customer service is only possible when there is
excellent internal customer service in additional, internal customer service, pertain to a well-
being and a group who work together to help the consumers. If the crews/staff, are happy
conducting their job they can share this excitement to the buyers so that it will motivate then to
Experts have defined customer satisfaction in services as the extent to which customer’s
Furthermore, when a crew’s performance respect the consumer’s thoughts and opinions it has a
possibility that their performance will correspond to the expectations of their customers. Through
customer’s satisfaction, it is able to present a versatile to know the strength and weaknesses of an
individual when it comes to their behavior. This satisfaction can influence the customer’s
behavior so that they are willing to correct their errors. The consumer’s nowadays look not on
the price of the products but the treatment of the crews, though sometimes they can’t afford the
price they used to eat in the restaurant that has a good quality of service.
competitors of others restaurant. Meanwhile, it can also be an asset to gain more customers and
to attain the rate they want. Since many customers tend to have a higher expectation
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Customer satisfaction towards products and services played a vital role in every fast food chain.
This help the company to meet the expectation of every consumer. Specifically, customer
satisfaction is one of the assets that brings higher rate to any company.
The term "customer satisfaction" became popularized in the 1980's with the total quality
movement. Therefore, customer satisfaction postulate as one of the main indicators of business
performance. Customer satisfaction is about products, services and brand, while it’s always been
smart to keep customers happy. (Kotler, 2003). The customer satisfaction suggests that service
quality is more crucial than the products on offer (Allen, 2013). When it comes to service quality
the employee should do his or her best to have a good performance to make their customer
satisfied. It’s very hard if the customers do not like your performance it can make affect not just
the rate but also to the company. When a buyer develops satisfaction for a specific service they
also gradually develop a loyalty towards the brand and become a repeat customer (Pang, 2008).
The satisfaction of the customers is more on criticize in their service quality. The
consumer believes that if the service of one fast food chain satisfies them, therefore, the
consumer will have a good perspective, because service will make them satisfied. The
satisfaction of customers is direct related to their expectancy levels (Pang, 2008). Customer
disconfirmation (Kimita, K, Shimomura, Y., Arai, 2009). Now a day, the success in a market
place is customer satisfaction. This is because the customer is very important for the organization
or in the business world. Customer is one of the important to business because they are the
people who give feedback to product or service, if they are satisfied in product or services to give
them, the business can proceed to another’s performance. All consumers are different. They have
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different expectations and different criticizing a product. For the customer it is not necessary that
a better quality can be a better taste, if customer like the taste of food he/she will be willing to
pay for it. Therefore, restaurants focus is on taste of the food and services that has influence on
Service Quality
customer’s and how the company will deliver that service. Service quality is well known as
SERVQUAL (Sivadas and Baker- Prewitt, 2000). The study of consumer satisfaction has
developed into significant ways which need to be found out and for satisfying the wants and
needs of every consumer’s (Rajendran and Anantharaman, 2002). Studying the customer’s
satisfied we may know if the customers are satisfied to the services that a company provided. If
the company provides a product that every consumer can afford the employee should stand were
The quality of service that is given for the consumers is lot more important not just for
the consumer but it also very important for the service providers too (Huber and et. al., 2001).
Specifically, when the staff or employee are new, they need to provide his or her good
performance to the customer to maintain the positive outcomes for the company.
In recent times, customers are more concern about the services. If the service is good
then automatically the customer feels satisfied. Service is more important in every company.
Service to customers is widely used in the fast food industries. Service quality has a significant
impact on the customer satisfaction (Butscher, 2002). Customer satisfaction is the front lines of
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business and it may be negative or positive depending on the customer service quality. From
cheese burgers to onion rings, fast food is becoming one of the fastest mushrooming industries of
the world. The demand for the product of McDonalds is quite high (Grigoroudis and Siskos,
2009). The stewards are very prompt in responding to the requests and orders of the
Service customers
Quality
and no one has to wait. The staff is very polite towards the guests and is always ready to help.
The quality of food has been the same but with an improvement in services, there was a
Responsiveness
remarkable increase in customer satisfaction at the outlet (Hurth, 2006).
Customer
Preference Assurance
Privacy
Reliability
Conceptual Framework
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Figure 1.
This figure shows that the service quality, responsiveness, assurance, privacy and
reliability are the customer preference of customer satisfaction towards products and services. It
Theoretical Framework
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Theoretical framework of this study is organized around theoretical based from existing
resources such as websites. The theoretical base is related to customer expectation and customer
satisfaction.
Surprenant, 1982). Business both big and small have a part to know the benefits of customer
satisfaction and the services they perform, the achievement they got in the customers will help to
their business in many aspects (Szymanski and Henard, 200 cited in Yu et al, 2005). Customer
satisfaction information helps the company to know their errors, abilities and also the way in
meeting their expectations (Zeithaml et al, 2009). Customers who are satisfied will help the
business through offering to others what the business can provide for them and tell the others the
observing the performance, expectations may have already predisposed. The consumer to
respond to the product in a certain way (the higher the expectations, the higher satisfaction or
vice versa)” (Oliver, 1997, p.89). If high expectation preside to more favorable ratings, then one
may suggest that a business should strive to raise expectation strongly made the product
CHAPTER 3
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METHODOLOGY
This chapter covers an overview of methodology used in the study. This study brings into
play the descriptive method referring to the used of surveys. It also includes the research design,
research instrument, data collection and presentation, statistical treatment of data and
Research Design
This study will make sure of the descriptive method of research to gain the assurance of
getting the main objectives of assessing the customer satisfaction towards products and services.
Research Instrument
complete this study was gathered. The collected data were tallied and record in succession with
The researcher used the survey questionnaire to know the perception of respondents
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Respondents of the study
The respondents of this study are the one hundred (100) customers of McDonalds in Lipa
City.
describe the respondents and their age, gender, and civil status.
Simple frequency counts tallies, the number of times the score is achieve. This is used to
Weighted Mean
Weighted Mean was used as a measure of data to reflect the respondents rating on. The
Interval Formula:
5−1 4
ı= = =0.80
5 5
Formula for Weighted Mean
ΣWiXi
X wi =
ΣWi
Where
Wi = Number of respondents (100).
Xi = Scale (5, 4, 3, 2, 1).
Scale Weighted Mean (WM) Verbal Interpretation (VI)
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CHAPTER 4
PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS, AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA
TABLE 1.
Distribution of Respondents
17 – 25 69 69% 1
26 – 33 18 18% 2
Table 1 shows the frequency distributors of the respondent`s profile according to age of
the respondents. It shows that sixty-nine percent (69%) of the respondent`s belong to the age
group of 17 – 25 as indicated by the frequency sixty-nine (69). While the least is the
respondent`s aging 34 and above year old with the frequency of 13. This only shows that most of
TABLE 2.
Distribution of Respondents
Male 46 46% 2
Female 54 54% 1
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Table 2 showed the frequency distribution of the respondents according to their gender. It
can be gleaned from the table that most of the respondents are female as indicated by the
frequency of 54. Meanwhile, male respondents had a frequency of 46. This is clear indication
that there were more female respondents used in the study than males.
TABLE 3.
Distribution of Respondents
Single 82 82% 1
Married 17 17% 2
Widow 1 1% 3
Separated 0 0% 4
Table 3 present the profile of the respondents in terms of their civil status as noted in
table, the respondents that are single ranked first in the survey with the frequency of 82. On the
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CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IN TERMS OF SERVICES, PRODUCT, DELIVERY,
AND PRICES
TABLE 4. SERVICES
Weighted Verbal
Mean Interpretation
Statement
(WM) (VI)
3. The ambiance in the fast food chain is comfortable enough. 4.09 Satisfied
6. The fast food chain staff understands the specific needs of their 4.09 Satisfied
customers.
TOTAL 32.85
Table 4 shows the respondents level of customer satisfaction in terms of service. The
statement “The customer service addresses my issue” got the highest weighted mean score of
4.24 which is verbally interpreted as strongly satisfied while the statement “The services meet
the expectation of the customer” got the least weighted mean count of 3.87 or satisfied. It means
that the respondents have good satisfaction regarding the level of service. It is note that in this
study the respondents have no neutral, dissatisfied, and strongly dissatisfied when it comes to the
level of service.
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TABLE 5. PRODUCT
Weighted Verbal
Mean Interpretation
Statement
(WM) (VI)
1. The fast food chain offers a variety menu of items. 4.38 Strongly
Dissatisfied
TOTAL 25.07
satisfied. The statement “The fast food chain offers a variety menu of items” got the highest
weighted mean of 4.38 as strongly dissatisfied while the statement “The product meets the
expectation of the customer” got the least weighted mean of 4.07 as satisfied.
TABLE 6. DELIVERY
Weighted Verbal
Mean Interpretation
Statement
(WM) (VI)
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3. The person in charge in delivery are responsible. 3.91 Satisfied
TOTAL 19.89
The statement “Delivery on time performance and commitment to meet your delivery
expectation” got the highest weighted mean of 4.10 as satisfied while statement “The person in
charge in delivery are responsible” and statement “The expectation from delivery is met” got the
least weighted mean of 3.91 as satisfied. Table 6 indicated by the composite mean of 3.98 where
TABLE 7. PRICES
Weighted Verbal
Mean Interpretation
Statement
(WM) (VI)
4. The price of the product are affordable by the customer. 4.07 Satisfied
5. The products price are match to the food they offered. 4.04 Satisfied
TOTAL 20.29
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The statement “The product price is competitive” got the highest weighted mean of 4.28
as strongly satisfied while statement “The product price meets satisfaction” got the least
weighted mean of 4.01 as satisfied. Table 7 indicated by the composite mean of 4.06 where it is
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CHAPTER 5
This chapter presents the summary findings, conclusion, as well as the recommendation
of the study.
Summary
The study is entitled Customer Satisfaction towards products and services of McDonalds
Specifically, this study aimed to find answer to the following specific questions:
□ Age
□ Gender
□ Civil Status
a. Employee’s performance
a. Delivery
c. Prices
d. Market
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4. What is the alternative recommendation that can be applied by McDonald’s to attain
satisfaction?
Null Hypothesis
c. Services and product do affect the customer’s satisfaction; services and products does
The method of research utilized was the descriptive method of research. The basic data
The locale of the study was Lipa of the Division of Batangas where customers of
McDonalds were involved. The respondents were 100 customer – 46 males and 54 females.
The statistical devices used in the treatment of data was the frequency, percentage, rank,
Findings
1. Twenty-four or twenty-four percent (24%) of the male respondents were 17-25 years old
while forty-five or forty-five percent (45%) of the female belong to the same age bracket.
2. Thirteen or thirteen percent (13%) of the male respondents were 26-33 years old while
five or five percent (5%) of the female belong to the same age bracket.
3. Nine or nine percent (9%) of the male respondents were 34 and above years old while
four or four percent (4%) of the female belong to the same age bracket.
4. The overall mean of the male was 15.33 while for the female, it was 18.
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B. Effects of customer satisfaction in terms of Services
Conclusions
1. The Male and Female respondents generally corresponding to their age although the
2. The perception of Male and Female respondents was more satisfied in terms of products
3. The behavior of Male and Female respondents will always have bearing to the successful
of a business.
Recommendation
From the findings, and conclusions brought about by the study, this recommendation are hereby
advance.
1. The fast food chains discipline policies should consider the situation needs, nature and
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2. The fast food chains performance is already satisfying but can still be improve if
supervision is really performed by the heads and managers in the form of conference and
formal observations.
3. Customer should be given opportunity in the formulation of the discipline policies and
also their execution, for them to find out the value of responsibility imposed upon by all
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Abstract
The main aim of this research is to know the customer satisfaction regarding service and
products in McDonalds Lipa City, Batangas. The customer satisfaction brings the important
detail for the company of McDonalds. The satisfactions it is either good or bad are have an
impact to the growth of McDonalds in our industry. It gives the information to know the details
about their services and products. To know the expectations and capability life of the McDonalds
in the area of Lipa City, Batangas. The customer satisfactions are the key to identify if the
satisfies are met by customer. The methodology of research used a descriptive research, which
getting the main objectives of the study. The researcher collect data through survey-
questionnaire and used weighted mean to solve the total of distribution of respondents. The main
purpose of this study is to know the capable of McDonald`s through product and services.
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