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Abstract
The present study is aimed to determine innovative services applied in restaurants. Additionally, differences between restaurant according to their characteristics were also examined. The universe of the study contains all active first class restaurants in Mersin and Adana. The entire universe was included into the study. A qualitative methodology was employed and data was collected by using a questionnaire developed by the researchers. The questionnaire was applied between the dates August 2013 and January 2014 using face-to-face approach. A total of 169 questionnaires were droped to the restaurants and 92 of them (54%) completed and returned and included into the study. A comprehensive literature review showed that there is not a similar study on innovative applications at restaurants in Turkey. This makes the present study a unique work and a contribution to the field. The study results showed that restaurants were applying many innovative services. It was found that restaurants benefit from innovative products and services mostly in areas such as wireless internet, food products and services, order tracking, security systems, guest waiting time, check paying process, washingstands, environmental applications and order taking process
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