A Study of Consumer Behavior in Afternoon Tea Consumption

• Main Authors: Cheng-Jung Tsai, 蔡承容
• Other Authors: Chen, Chien Wei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77710487133522842816

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 國際經營與貿易研究所 === 100 === The culture of afternoon tea was originated from England in 19th century. At the time, afternoon tea was a popular leisure activity among upper classes women; nowadays, afternoon tea became a way to show individual’s taste and style. As for Taiwan, eating is more than just filling the stomach as time goes on. More and more Taiwanese consumers starts to put their attention on the dining environments including atmosphere, service, interior design, color, music and even light and air conditioning. Among all the meals, it is consumption of afternoon tea that concerned to atmosphere of the restaurants most. The thesis mainly researches on afternoon tea consumers of bakery cafés, professional afternoon tea providers and hotels/ restaurants. The purpose is to see consumer’s personal background, lifestyle, benefit search, evaluation of atmosphere, and to figure out how those variables affect afternoon tea consumption and how the variables affect each others. The thesis used questionnaires as the research tool to collect data, and then, used reliability, factor analysis, chi-square, ANOVA, regression and Pearson’s correlation coefficient to analyze the data. The results of the data analysis show that age, monthly income, outgoing personality, pursuit of delicacies has impact on afternoon tea consumption behavior, and there’s life correlation among lifestyle, benefit segmentation and atmosphere. At the end of the thesis is the overall marketing suggestion according to analysis results.