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Niche Marketing for Restaurants: Finding Your Audience (Infographic)

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Whether you’re serving gourmet food in a fine dining establishment or flipping burgers next to the local university, there’s going to be an audience that works best for your business. For example, if you own a food truck adjacent to a university, you could focus your marketing efforts on college students.

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As Your Restaurant Rolls with the Punches of COVID-19, Keep These Tips in Sight 

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Unequivocally, restaurateurs and entrepreneurs in the food industry have been among the hardest hit, economically speaking, by the COVID-19 pandemic. The normalcy of customers coming in the doors for a night of dining or even a casual lunch feels like a vision of the distant past. Adapt Your Facility.

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JUST DON’T KNOW OR JUST DON’T CARE

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We hire and fire, increase pay, or add more staff, change restaurant menus or add convenience foods to reduce the need for qualified employees, or simply accept that poor attitudes and inconsistent product are just “the way it is.” So, here we are, fighting the effects of the disease of caring and knowing. Make this your benchmark.

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8 Successful Restaurant Concepts & Ideas to Inspire and Guide You

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Fresh: Modern vegan and vegetarian food with an emphasis on whole and natural ingredients. A fine-dining restaurant with an emphasis on ingredients may present the menu simply, with descriptions of where the ingredients are from. Cheap digital menu marketing that captures a share of online dining demand. Menu design.

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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

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environments and are now seen everywhere from fine dining to counter service and everywhere in between. We’re also seeing many of our clients find new ways to be more sustainable in sourcing their food products. So much has changed in the food world in the past five years. Taka Tanaka, CEO of AUTEC Sushi Robots.

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Five Things You Need to Know About Restaurant Insurance

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Between obsessing over food and finances, one key consideration shouldn’t fall through the cracks—restaurant insurance. Restaurant insurance helps: Protect your restaurant against expensive legal costs when an accident such as a slip or fall or an incident like food poisoning happens at your restaurant.

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DON’T NICKEL AND DIME YOUR GUEST or IMPRESS THEM WITH QUANTITY

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It is important to always keep in mind that dining out is still a luxury, even though more and more families have built it into their lifestyle. Whether a quick service restaurant, family dining, food truck, or white tablecloth fine dining operation – there will always be some level of price sensitivity.