Gig Economy Delivery Services Versus Professional Service Providers: Consumers’ Perceptions of the Food Delivery Service

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santiago Melián-González
2021 ◽  
pp. 384-394
Author(s):  
Nina Naquiah Ahmad Nizar ◽  
Siti Aimi Sarah Zainal Abidin

Online food delivery service (FDS) is the new gig economy in this era of new normal. Online FDS refers to the process whereby food that was ordered online is prepared and delivered to the consumer. FDS falls at the end of a food supply chain, the final stage just before the food reaches customers. However, this stage can make or break a wholesome food production, particularly in halal food supply chain. This paper revisits the guidelines of FDS in Malaysia; then extended to the measures taken during Covid-19 pandemic. The focus is food safety and quality, and halal supply chain. It is hoped that this overview will become a source of information for the public for their peace of mind, and the food delivery service providers to deliver wholesome food to their customers


Author(s):  
Cecilia Desvita Ratna Elvandari ◽  
Anggoro Cahyo Sukartiko ◽  
Arita Dewi Nugrahini

Increased internet usage and fast-paced consumer’s demands have created business opportunities, including online food delivery services. However, competition with similar national-scale businesses allegedly contributed to the decline in the number of XYZ company orders, one of the food-delivery service providers in Yogyakarta. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the need’s attributes of the daring food delivery service consumers, to find out the service-quality satisfaction level, and to determine the technical requirement for improving the delivery service. The combination of Servqual and Quality Function Deployment (QFD) were then used to reach the research goals. The online survey instruments, which were borrowed from the previous studies and adapted for this study, were distributed from June 2016 to February 2017 to more than 700 XYZ’s consumers, with the number of respondents who answered as many as 213 peoples. Cronbach’s Alpha, the most common test for multiple Likert questions in a survey, was then used for analyzing the collected data. The result shows that order conformity; politeness and friendliness of messengers and administrative workers; cleanliness of food box; a good conditionof received ordered food; and affordable delivery costs are the top five attributes of consumer needs. Meanwhile, the top five observed technical requirements are the provision of skills training to messengers and administrative workers; periodic evaluations of service performance; the regular addition of food outlet members; providing map feature on the company website, and provision of ordering applications.  The identified requirements can benefit local food delivery service providers in competing with national scale competitors and adapt to disruptive age.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anwar Allah Pitchay ◽  
Yuvaraj Ganesan ◽  
Nurul Syifa Zulkifli ◽  
Ahmad Khaliq

PurposeThe study aims to examine factors that influence customers' intention to use online food delivery applications using a smartphone. The factors examined in this study are based on the existing theory of Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) namely performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, information quality, price-saving orientation and time-saving orientation towards intention to use the applications. Moreover, this research model also has been expanded with an additional dimension, attitude towards online food delivery services which lead to the intention to use online food delivery services through a smartphone. Furthermore, the present study also tested the role of age as moderator constructs between attitude towards online food delivery services and intention to use online food delivery services through a smartphone.Design/methodology/approachThe study employed a quantitative method and 256 respondents participated in this study. The questionnaires are distributed using a convenience sampling technique and the data is analysed using partial least square approach.FindingsThe result shows that four (4) constructs, i.e. social influence, information quality, price-saving orientation and time-saving orientation have a positive relationship and significant effect on attitude towards online food delivery service where it enhances the intention to use the application. Attitude towards online food delivery services also has a significant effect on the intention to use. Furthermore, age was not found significant to moderate the relationship between attitude and intention to use.Practical implicationsThe output of this study has several practical contributions such as enhances the existing knowledge and skillset of the shared-economy industry, online food delivery service providers as well as restaurant owners in improving the quality of life of the customers. It also provides contextual knowledge and a deeper understanding of online food delivery applications for customers in Malaysia.Originality/valueThe findings provide a guiding principle for improving the present determinant factors, attitude towards online food delivery service and intention to use online food delivery applications.


AdBispreneur ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Eska Nia Sarinastiti ◽  
Nabilla Kusuma Vardhani

 The aim of this research is examining the implementation of co-branding by the food delivery service and its influence on the local culinary tourism business model of Yogyakarta. This research uses qualitative research with an exploratory study. Data collection was conducted through semi-structured interviews with 13 owners of Yogyakarta’s local culinary. The results showed that co-branding was carried out jointly with GoFoodPartner, but if it was not incorporated into GoFoodPartner co-branding was carried out directly between GoFood and the culinary business management. As for GrabFood, co-branding is done partially to businesses that are not part of their official cooperation partners. The culinary tourism business model has been changing by online food delivery service providers. The change is they have not only done business to consumer (B2C) but then also develop its business model into Business to Business (B2B) and Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C). It changes the business model of culinary tourism developed into a food tourism business model.   Penelitian ini mengkaji tentang implementasi co-branding oleh layanan food delivery tersebut dan pengaruhnya pada model bisnis wisata kuliner lokal khas Yogyakarta. Penelitian ini menggunakan jenis penelitian kualitatif dengan metode eksploratory. Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui wawancara semi-terstruktur dengan 13 pelaku usaha wisata kuliner lokal khas Yogyakarta didukung observasi serta dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa co-branding dilakukan secara bersama-sama antara GoFood dan pelaku usaha wisata kuliner yang tergabung dalam GoFoodPartner, akan tetapi jika tidak tergabung dengan GoFoodPartner co-branding dilakukan secara terpisah antara GoFood dan pelaku usaha wisata kuliner. Sementara untuk GrabFood juga demikian, co-branding dilakukan secara partial untuk pelaku usaha wisata yang bukan masuk dalam mitra kerjasamanya. Model bisnis wisata kuliner yang dilakukan terdapat perubahan dengan adanya layanan online food delivery. Perubahan tersebut terdapat pada tidak hanya business to consumer (B2C), akan tetapi model bisnisnya berkembang juga menjadi Business to Business (B2B) dan Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C). Perubahan model bisnis tersebut mendorong perkembangan model bisnis culinary tourism menjadi model bisnis food tourism.


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-132
Author(s):  
Ranny Buggy Wahyu ◽  
Nur Diana ◽  
Raditya Koesdijarto Putra ◽  
Vinsa Adi Laksana ◽  
Sigit Hermawan

ABSTRACT Research Objectives - This study aims to determine the effect of prices, products, promotions and distribution on consumer decisions using online food delivery services. Design / Methodology / Approach - The study was conducted by distributing questionnaires to 200 respondents who used an online food delivery service application, namely the Go-Food, GrabFood, McDelivery, KFC Online Delivery and Pizza Hut Delivery applications. This research uses ethnographic methods Findings - The results found that the decision to use online food delivery service is significantly influenced by e-marketing mix with e-place factor as the most dominant factor, while of all these factors it is known that e-product factors do not significantly influence user decisions online food delivery service in Sidoarjo. Originality / value - This research examines the influence of the marketing mix of prices, products, promotions and distribution with different digital concepts from previous studies that still use the traditional marketing mix concept. Keywords: e-Marketing mix, Consumer decision, Online food delivery.


Author(s):  
Goh Mei Ling ◽  
Ho Sew Tiep ◽  
Ng Zhu Er

In this era of technology, the development and explosion of the internet has created the online business platform for the services and products. One of the areas is the food delivery services. With development of mobile applications for food delivery, it has eased the process of delivering the ordered food, and at the same time create convenience to the beverage industry (Wang et al., 2019). The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in early last year has impacted everyone's daily life and resulted in pandemic control measures such as Movement Control Order (MCO) by the Malaysian government around the country. This change has required Malaysian to engage with new norms such as wearing masks, physical distancing and hand hygiene in their daily life. The pandemic has also sparked a new consumption pattern in society. Many people have opted for food delivery services and thus inflated the demand of food delivery service in Malaysia. Hence, understanding customer satisfaction towards the mobile food delivery apps is essential. There are several studies on the customer satisfaction towards online food delivery service during the COVID-19 pandemic (Prasetyo et al., 2021; Rahim & Yunus, 2021). Pasetyo et al. (2021) investigated the customer satisfaction and loyalty from the extended Theory of Planned Behaviour perspective. Meanwhile Rahim and Yunus (2021) examined the relationship between service quality, food quality and price of e-hailing food delivery service. However, these studies did not examine the effect of convenience and website quality on consumers satisfaction toward the mobile food delivery apps. Based on these, this study aims to examine the influence of the factors, namely service quality, convenience, price and website quality on customer satisfaction towards the mobile food delivery apps during the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia. Keywords: Customer Satisfaction, Mobile Food Delivery Apps, COVID-19 Pandemic


Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Kyungyul Jun ◽  
Borham Yoon ◽  
Seungsuk Lee ◽  
Dong-Soo Lee

Despite the popularity of online food delivery systems in the foodservice industry, there have been few studies into customers’ decision-making process to use online food delivery services during the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. This study applied the technology acceptance model (TAM) to examine the factors affecting customers’ intention to use online food delivery services. Results showed (a) the perceived usefulness affects customer’s online food delivery usage directly and indirectly through customer attitude; (b) enjoyment and trust are also key factors determining behavior intention toward customer attitude using online food delivery services; (c) positive relationship between social influence and customer attitude; and (d) a positive relationship between customer attitude and behavior intention in the online food delivery service context. These findings provide theoretical and managerial implications that contribute to the online food delivery service industry.


Online food delivery services like Zomato, Swiggy, Uber eats etc., is very common in Chennai, serving food to the customers at their doorstep in round the clock. This study was basically conducted to analyse the benefits and challenges of online food delivery services and its relationship with the socioeconomic aspects of the working women in Chennai. This study was aimed to explore the benefits and challenges of online food deliver and to find the relationship between demographic profile of the working women and factors of online food delivery. : The study mainly depends on the Primary data collected through a well-structured Questionnaire distributed to in Chennai alone. The result shows that there is Perfect association between age and educational qualification of the working women and cluster groups.


10.28945/4386 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 277-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwi Suhartanto ◽  
David Dean ◽  
Gundur Leo ◽  
Ni Nyoman Triyuni

Aim/Purpose: To examine millennial satisfaction towards online food delivery services, including e-service quality, food quality, and perceived value as the determinants and behavioral intention as the consequence. Background: Among the generational cohorts, millennials are a demanding target group for many retailers, including restaurants. Despite many studies examining millennial behavior in the restaurant context, almost no research on millennial attitudes and behavior in the context of online food home delivery service can be found. Methodology: For this research, 332 millennials completed a self-administered survey in Indonesia. To assess the associations between satisfaction and its determinants and consequences, this study employs Partial Least Square modeling. Contribution: This research extends existing knowledge of millennial satisfaction toward online food delivery service by highlighting that food quality, e-service quality and perceived value are the main determinants of satisfaction for online food purchasing among millennials. Further, this study offers support for the spillover theory in the online food home delivery service from millennial perspective. Findings: This study uncovers the important direct dual influences of e-service quality and food quality on millennial satisfaction with online food delivery services. Further, this study notes that e-service and food quality also have an indirect influence on satisfaction via perceived value. Moreover, satisfied millennial customers are more likely to re-purchase, recommend to others, and re-purchase at an increased price. Recommendations for Practitioners: For small and medium restaurants, it is suggested that they need to focus solely on their core business of providing food. If they want to offer an e-service, they should develop strategic cooperation with one or more online service providers. Recommendation for Researchers: Millennials tend to repurchase, recommend, and be willing to pay more in the future extends the existing models that look at the associations among quality, satisfaction and behavioral intention. Thus, in online restaurant purchasing services, both e-service quality and food quality should be included in the future research models. Impact on Society: This study could help restaurant industries to increase their business performance and, indirectly, impact on society as a whole by providing high quality food, employment opportunities, and tax revenues. Future Research: Future researchers can reassess the model in different countries and/or with other generation cohorts as well as including other variables such as trust, image, involvement, as well as socio-demographic factors.


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