Abstract:
This research was aimed to study level of decision making in choosing service of Muslim food shop in Surat Thani Province, to study behavior in choosing service of Muslim food shop in Surat Thani Province, to compare the level of decision making in choosing service of Muslim food shop in Surat Thani Province according to individual factors, and to study relationship between behavior of using service and decision in choosing service of Muslim food shop in Surat Thani Province. The questionnaires were distributed and filled in by 400 customers, or 100 percent, who used the services of Muslim food shop in Surat Thani Province. The statistical tests employed in data analysis were frequency, percentage, average and standard deviation, t-test, F-test, and chi square.
It was found that most of the studied population were female age between 20-29 years, single, living outside the city, Muslim, student studying for bachelor degree, with monthly allowance less than 5,000 baht, with hobby of watching movie, listening to music, surfing internet and playing games. Most of them knew the food shop through friends introduction and used the service when the desire to explore different tastes arose without any external factors affecting the decision to choose. The chosen food shops were visited on Saturday and Sunday, with frequency of 1-2 times a week and at the time between 12.01-14.00 oclock, choosing dish by selecting from the menus, visiting in a group of 3-4, with an average expense of 101-200 baht, and spending around 1-2 hour per visit. The decision making to choose service of Muslim food shop in Surat Thani Province, in overall, has the level of decision at high level. Once each aspect was explored it was found that there were 5 factors affecting decision making in choosing services of Muslim food shop in Surat Thani Provinces strongly such as nutritional value, price, product, location and service respectively while promotion did affect moderately. Individual factors such as sex, age, marital status, domicile, educational level and hobby affected the decision making in choosing services of Muslim food shop differently at a significant level of 0.05. Behavior of consuming Muslim food such as media that advertised or recommended the food shop, occasion in using the service, people that influence the decision making, day of using the service, frequency of using the service, time of day of using the service, ordering method, number of people using the service together, average expense were all related to factors affecting the decision making in choosing service of Muslim food shop significantly at 0.05 level.