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AUGUST 12, 2020

So far, 2020 has thrown marketing plans, advertising budgets, and restaurant growth out of the window. To help, we’ve created the ultimate restaurant marketing guide, covering strategy, creative, branding, marketing channels, paid and unpaid advertising, and so much more.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Advertise where your candidates are. This means advertising your vacant roles on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, or LinkedIn: the places your candidates already are. These celebrations are more attractive to candidates than a mere job description. This kind of content also plays well in the digital spaces your candidates inhabit.

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JULY 14, 2021

Based on our experience working with these brands, here are our recommendations on the key channels to include in your recruitment marketing strategy: Job Board Advertising. Social Media Advertising. If you don’t actively drive traffic via advertising then nobody will see your content. Search Advertising.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Google was still young, but they had a new advertising platform that used an old-fashioned but attractive buying strategy: The auction. Unlike traditional advertisements like print mail or radio, the auction allowed you to bid what you wanted for an ad, not some flat rate outside of your control. The Growth of Digital.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For instance, the colors used to advertise food service brands and their products often call on the psychology of color to enhance the message. The Impact of Color Knowing the ins and outs of psychology in marketing can hugely affect how you strategize photography.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

They spend boatloads of money in advertising, and countless hours of invested time in trying to accomplish this important task. Hospitality and the overall experience are as important to value as price. [] CONSOLIDATE RESOURCES Consider pooling your advertising resources to create a rising tide. Pool your resources to address safety.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Since many restaurant brands rely on targeted advertising to reach potential diners, this update will have a significant impact on strategies across the hospitality industry and beyond. Each mobile device comes with its own identifier that provides advertisers with data from users’ behavior and preferences.

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AUGUST 21, 2024

AI-powered emotional targeting is the ability for advertisers to use artificial intelligence in order to precisely match the emotional tone of their ads with the emotional tone of the programming being shown on a TV screen. Today the challenge has become making the case for advertisers on CTV. Why emotion?

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Make sure the effort you’ve put into planning your Halloween party pays off by advertising sufficiently and strategically in the weeks leading up to the event. Print flyer advertising the party to hang in-house and at various spots around town. Either way, don’t forget to advertise about your party partnership.

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APRIL 25, 2022

More word-of-mouth advertising : Word-of-mouth advertising is one of the best and cost-effective forms of advertising that help businesses in promoting their offerings. If you can satisfy the needs and desires of your customers fully, they will do word-of-mouth advertising in return.

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MAY 1, 2024

"This report dissects how different types of media engagement can deeply impact the effective reach of your advertising. By not investing in in-game advertising, QSR brands have (most likely without knowing) way underreached and underserved this customer segment. And it’s not trivial. And that’s my nugget in a wrap!

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

By creating a social media presence, restaurant owners can utilize tools that these platforms offer such as localized advertising using demographic filters or using cookies and remarketing techniques to find repeating customers. This is key for collecting data, and enables the restaurant to create targeted advertising materials.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

Advertising. A bigger investment in advertising, however, can save a lot of time, since you can test ads with various messages, visuals, locations, and audiences with specificity. Nearly all social media tools have some sort of paid advertising component. It’s important to choose the right medium for your marketing goals.

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JUNE 24, 2021

Creating and deliver engaging content, maintaining customer communications, establishing an online presence, reviewing data-driven analytics, setting up paid advertising initiatives…all of these important steps take time. This often means marketing and advertising efforts are done on-the-fly or simply 86’d.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

In fact, when done from the heart – hospitality is your greatest advertising tool because your happy guests will pass along the word. Hospitality is what makes the experience of dining special, and it is most definitely what brings people back.

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JULY 20, 2022

Industry advertisers have needed to remain nimble as economic conditions have turned on a dime, reevaluating their campaigns to reflect changing restrictions, consumer behaviors and more, sometimes at a mere moment’s notice. Last mile similarly applies when looking at the advertising industry. Or all of those?

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Facebook and Instagram are powerful advertising tools for any restaurant wanting to reach people in their community or tourists traveling through their area, whether to increase indoor dining numbers or, in today's climate, driving more pickup and curbside orders.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

In order to attract more customers, advertise your prix fixe Valentine’s Day menu on social media, flyers, and more. Think about how you’ll want to advertise on social media and in print, such as with flyers or table tents. Once you decide to throw a party, you’ll want to start working on your marketing strategy.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The key here is in understanding the two types of advertising – traditional v. Traditional job advertising allows you to have a fixed budget while using old job data to inform decisions as to where to post your jobs. Programmatic job advertising takes a profile-driven data approach. Positioning is key to job advertising.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

Advertise Holiday Work. Advertising availability — especially in conjunction with any signing bonuses or specification of the work itself (expected hours, needed roles, etc.) — makes those already familiar with your restaurant aware that they have the opportunity to work there.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Here are some tips to best advertise that you offer delivery services. Advertise your delivery services. Proper advertising is required to reach out to more and more people. It’s essential to adopt sound marketing strategies for your in-house food delivery business. Mention In-House Delivery on Your Site.

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OCTOBER 24, 2020

These aspects include: décor, skill level of staff, style of service, pricing, profit, type of vendors selected, kitchen layout, equipment selection, marketing and advertising, pay scales, dining room seating, type of china, glassware and flatware, even the location and color scheme for the exterior of the restaurant.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

It's a natural feeling to want to be off to the races and immediately start advertising, but all this will do is make you spend quite a bit without a proper understanding of what your loyal followers are actually looking for.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

Sticking with the above example of a coffee shop, you may want to talk about your restaurant advertising ideas for millennials, like using TikTok marketing to promote your menu items and an app-based loyalty program. Detail your plans for using social media, local advertising, promotions, and how you're going to reach your target audience.

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MAY 24, 2023

While you may already be promoting to your customers, it's equally significant to advertise to your prospective staff. To transform this perception and entice high-quality talent, it's essential to position yourself as the employer of choice. This involves marketing your restaurant as an appealing workplace.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

As a restaurant owner, it's easy to pour money into advertising and promotions without knowing how much it’s really costing your business. Knowing how to calculate and optimize your customer acquisition cost (CAC) can help you make smarter decisions about your marketing and advertising strategies.

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JUNE 29, 2021

Consider a Small Advertising Campaign. There are affordable sponsored posting plans for nearly any budget, plus today’s leading platforms make advertisements easy to implement and offer tracking tools to measure success.

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MAY 14, 2020

Instead, digital advertising can be an easier, more effective and sometimes less costly way to optimize your ad spend and keep your business top of mind with customers, especially if you’ve shifted to delivery or takeout models. Analyze Online Conversations to Adjust Current and Future Strategies.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Often, the gap between the kind of guest experiences being advertised is different from the experiences provided. Spending on a fancy marketing campaign does not guarantee success; it is an instrument to advertise your business, not to advertise what you cannot deliver. Marketing is not magic. So how do we close the gap?

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 23, 2021

How you approach profit will determine what your physical plant will look like, the scope of sophistication in your kitchen, who your vendors will be, how many employees you will hire and the depth of their experience, where you advertise and how much you invest in that, your table top appointments, and even your hours of operation.

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MAY 20, 2020

Any decision to change restaurant capacity and make the experience different and BETTER will have an impact on landlords, neighborhood dynamics, advertisers, and those in the business to help create safer environments.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

Check out Brett McHale's Wordstream blog on how to advertise local businesses on Facebook. But if you can post some photographs of your customers enjoying your food, that’s a quick and easy way of advertising your brand. Create some enticing advertising copy and then let Facebook Ads take care of the rest.

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OCTOBER 22, 2019

5) Try Social Media Advertising Want to get more eyes on your dishes? Instagram has advertising options integrated with Facebook which allows you to place ads on either the feed, Instagram Stories, or the Explore page. If users perceive good treatment online, they’ll already have a good impression of your brand once they walk in.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Consider the channels you'll use to reach potential customers, such as social media, local advertising, or community events. Your marketing strategy helps you understand how to position your restaurant in the market.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Marketing & advertising It's your job to ensure the restaurant's seats are full, especially if you're not part of a massive franchise that benefits from corporate advertising. But smaller restaurants also have to worry about keeping the budget intact.

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AUGUST 31, 2024

Make your mission statement “live” everywhere in the business: your website, social media, newsletters, emails, business cards, on the wall of your employee dining area, in your employee manual, on your business checks, prominent on your menu, and in your advertising.

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JUNE 8, 2021

These referrals serve as free advertising and are an easy and effective way to gain new potential long-term customers. Small restaurants can’t out-spend Uber Eats or Grubhub on national advertising, but they can target local customers and send them unbeatable offers to incentivize direct orders.

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