TY - JOUR AB - This paper explains relationship marketing (RM) and discusses the benefits to customers and firms applying RM. Nine dimensions central to making RM successful are assessed. These are: trust, commitment, social bonding, empathy, experiences, fulfilment of promise, customer satisfaction, internal relationship marketing, and communication. The researcher then describes three personal experiences of eating out in three different restaurants and discusses good RM techniques applied deliberately or otherwise by these establishments. VL - 105 IS - 10 SN - 0007-070X DO - 10.1108/00070700310506281 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/00070700310506281 AU - Rashid Tahir PY - 2003 Y1 - 2003/01/01 TI - Relationship marketing: case studies of personal experiences of eating out T2 - British Food Journal PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 742 EP - 750 Y2 - 2024/04/18 ER -