This study aims to find out how job choice motive of employees in food service industry affects their
job adjustment along with job satisfaction, ultimately inspiring service orientation for customers. From
March 17th 2016, for six months, 255 data are collected mainly from family restaurants in metropolitan
area and utilized in analysis. The results of analysis show that external motivation and normative motivation have positive relationship with job adjustment. Also, normative motivation and internal motivation had
positive relationships with job satisfaction while amotivation has negative relationship with job satisfaction.
Furthermore, job adjustment and job satisfaction have positive relationships with service orientation.
According to the result of path comparison between groups, a significant difference has been discovered
depending on career and job type. However, in case of position and recruitment, meaningful outcome has
not been observed. This study suggests that how food service firms understand internal employee’s job
choice motivation factor for service orientation and that how service orientation mechanism is associated
with job choice motivation in food service industry