CONSUMER SATISFACTION SURVEY OF A TRADITIONAL PRODUCT
ON THE EXAMPLE OF “OSCYPEK” CHEESE
The aim of the research was to determine the level of consumer satisfaction of the selected traditional product, which was cheese type ‘oscypek’. The research materials of the original character were collected by direct interview method using a special research questionnaire. In the research took part 200 people who bought oscypek in a shop belonging to one of the producers of this cheese located in town of Żywiec. Consumer Satisfaction Index (CSI) method was used to determine the level of customer satisfaction. In total, 12 factors were selected for the assessment of satisfaction, among which the most important for the respondents were: taste, smell and price. The synthetic rate of customer satisfaction measured by the CSI method was 3.56. The obtained results allowed to determine the level of satisfaction of ‘oscypek’ consumers as good and indicated that for buyers of traditional food the qualitative features of the purchased products are of the greatest importance - especially related to the taste values of this type of products.