The Impact of Marketing Deception in Customers’ Loyalty to Restaurants

This study aims to investigate the impact of marketing deception dimensions (deception in product, deceptive price, deceptive promotion and deception in distribution) on customers’ loyalty in a sample of quick service restaurants in Cairo and Alexandria. To achieve this aim, a questionnaire form was developed and distributed to a random sample of customers. A total of 300 forms were distributed, only 242 forms were valid for statistical analysis. The results of the field study concluded that there was a significant impact of marketing deception dimensions on customers’ loyalty. Moreover, there was a significant difference between the investigated respondents towards all of marketing deception dimensions (except deception in price). In contrast, there was no significant gender-relates difference among the investigated respondents regarding the marketing deception dimensions refers to age and level of education