외식산업에 대한 거시적 경제지표의 영향에 관한 연구

The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of the macroeconomic indicators on the growth of the foodservice industry in order to offer the useful information to the policy developers and foodservice managers in the foodservice industry. For this, the multiple regression analysis was performed, and four macroeconomic indicators as independent variables such as Gross Domestic Product(GDP), Consumer Price Index(CPI), Unemployment rate(UR), and Won-dollar exchange rate(WER) from 2000 to 2013 were selected. As the growth indicators of the foodservice industry, foodservice sales, the number of employees, the number of food court and cafeteria, the number of noncommercial foodservice, the number of new foodservice store, the eating-out rate out of food cost, and the average monthly eating-out cost were applied. The results of the multiple regression analysis showed that the GDP is significantly affected the foodservice sales, the number of employees, the number of food court and cafeteria, the noncommercial foodservice, the number of new foodservice store, the eating-out rate out of food cost, and the average monthly eating-out cost. The CPI significantly affected the number of food court and cafeteria, the eating-out rate out of food cost and the average monthly eating-out cost. The UR has negative impacts on the number of employees and the number of new foodservice store. Lastly, WER significantly affected the number of food courts and the cafeterias and the average monthly eating-out cost. Although the foodservice managers therefore cannot control the macroeconomic indicators, it would be possible to improve the management performance if these variations as stated above were carefully analyzed.