The Restaurant Performance Integration Framework (RPIF): A Dynamic Capability-Based Theory of Restaurant Performance
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.70917/ijcisim-2026-4869Keywords:
Restaurant Performance, Dynamic Capability Theory, Capability Integration, Organisational Capabilities, Customer Value, Systematic Literature ReviewAbstract
The success of restaurants has been measured by several metrics in the past, including financial, operational, customer, human resource, digital and sustainability indices. However, these measurements have been studied mostly in isolation, leading to a piecemeal knowledge of the factors that underlie restaurant performance. To address this gap, this study introduces the Restaurant Performance Integration Framework (RPIF), a dynamic capability-based theoretical framework to describe how organisational capabilities are integrated to provide customer value and sustainable organisational performance. The framework was built via a comprehensive literature review using the PRISMA 2020 principles . Peer-reviewed publications from the major hospitality and management databases were rigorously located, filtered and synthesised using thematic analysis. The assessment combined the fragmented measures of restaurant performance with four complementary theoretical perspectives: the Balanced Scorecard (BSC), the Service-Profit Chain (SPC), the Resource-Based View (RBV) and the Dynamic Capability Theory (DCT).
The synthesis revealed six interrelated dimensions of restaurant performance that together underlie the proposed RPIF. The framework conceives of restaurant performance as a dynamic capability-based process, in which organisational capabilities are continually integrated, orchestrated and refreshed to produce customer value, enhance financial performance and maintain long-term competitiveness. This study enhances the previous literature on restaurant performance by going beyond the discovery of specific key performance indicators (KPIs) to offer a conceptually integrated rationale for the way organisational capabilities lead to higher performance. RPIF advances research on hospitality management by defining the integration of capabilities as the primary mechanism linking strategic resources to customer value and financial performance. The framework also provides a basis for future empirical validation and provides restaurant managers with a strategic perspective to assess and develop organisational capabilities to attain sustained competitive advantage.