A secondary survey was conducted to investigate the customers' opinions on fast foods at thirty noodle chain restaurants in Seoul from November 16 to 25, 1988. The results are summarized as follows: 584 customers were surveyed consisting 42% of male and 58% of female. Proportion of age groups was 32.9% of adolescents, 38.7% of young adults, and 28.4% of adults. Females and young adults visited more than once or twice a week. The majority of customers had a favorable opinions to 'convenience in diet' and 'use on busy', but unfavorable to 'consistant quality of meals is keeping', and 'consistency in service is keeping'. The priority of important factors in purchasing fast foods were the cleanliness, taste of meals, convenience, and the price. Customers were most satisfied with atmosphere, while least satisfied with the price.

Fast food restaurants are growing in numbers in Korea since they were introduced abot a decade ago. To develop an effective marketing strategy for fast foods, it is important to assess consumer's acceptability and identify demorgraphic, environmental, and managerial factors which influence consumer's perception on the fast food restaurants. A total of 595 customers were surveyed at thirty hamburger chain restaurants in Seoul from November 7 to 15, 1988. Analyses of the collected data revealed that adolescents, females, and the people with high income were the major customers and visited more than once or twice a week; frequent visitors rated meals more favorably in terms of the quality, service and cleanliness, and they also rated meals of foreign brand more favorable than those of domestic one; the female group perceived the change in their dietary habits more than any other groups; cleanliness, convenience, atmosphere, courtesy, and the taste of foods were significant factors in purchasing fast foods; and customers were most satisfied with convenience, while least satisfied with the price and the quantity of foods. From these findings, it is sggested that the manager of the fast food restaurant must consider the consumer's perception of fast foods in terms of pros and cons in order to operate her/his restaurant successfully.

34 packaged meal (Dosirak) manufacturing establishments were assessed in terms of working environment, production and transportation practices. Questionnaires and facility check-lists were developed. Most establishments were small in business, and production personnel as well as production facilities were insufficient compared with production capacity of establishments. Mean production capacity for packaged meals in terms of optimum and maximum levels were 6,500 and 15,166 meals in large sized establishments; 2,662 and 8,301 in medium; and 2,112, and 4,733 in small respectively. Those figures indicate potentially hazardous practices in production especially in small and medium sized establishments. Most meals were produced to order. Transportation facility and kitchen space were assessed as insufficient.