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Item SERVICE QUALITY AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION: A STUDY OF RESTAURANTS IN VAVUNIYA DIVISIONAL SECRETARIAT.(Department of Marketing Management, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka, 2017) Pushpanathan, A.Service quality is important to the service supplying organizations including the restaurants. The restaurateurs should consider more about quality of their services. Then, they can compete with their competitors successfully. The service quality is the key ingredient for every customer. That kind of importance for service quality should be given by the restaurateurs. Customer is the key person who describes the quality. Restaurateurs should give their services according to the customers’ requirements. If customers get quality services from the restaurants, they will come to those restaurants to get their services again and again. It will help to restaurateurs to improve their customer base and they can improve their position in the market. The main objective of this study is to identify the relationship and impact of service quality with customer satisfaction of the Restaurant industry in Vavuniya Divisional Secretariat. The five dimensions in SERVQUAL model identified by Parasuraman et al., was used as independent variables - Tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy- and Customer satisfaction is considered as the dependent variable in this study. 100 customers are randomly selected from the 05 restaurants in Vavuniya Divisional Secretariat and the data were collected from the selected customers in the restaurants. The data were entered in SPSS 20 package. The correlation and regression analysis were used in the present study. The finding of the present study indicated that the service quality and customer satisfactionItem Impact of Credit Card Service Quality for Customer Loyalty(Department of Marketing Management, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Senarathne, G.H.H.S.; Patabandige, S.S.J.Banks are trying to win customer loyalty by providing better quality services. This study examines the relationship of service quality with customer loyalty in banking sector specially credit card industry. In this research findings are elaborate the hypothesis of relationship between customer loyalty with the reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy and tangibility. In this study the data was collected from selected 90 credit card holders who live in Gampaha district. The structured questionnaire was used to collect data. Service quality was assessed by using five dimensions of tangibility, Reliability, Responsiveness, Assurance and Empathy. Customer loyalty was analyzed using repeat purchase behavior, price sensitivity and word of mouth. The data obtained from the questionnaires were analyzed using the percentage distribution, mean, Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Regression analysis methods. The sample size is limited only to 90 respondents who have credit cards in HSBC, Samapth Bank, NTB. So selected sample not representing the customers in the whole country. Result of the study depends on limited sample. That limitations are respond carelessly and time is also a limited factor. And also there were limitations such as communication barriers, limited questions were consider to conduct this research.