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A Guide to Effective Instagram Marketing For Restaurants

Social Hospitality

Ever since Chris Messina’s #barcamp hashtag turned up on social media in 2007, hashtags have been big business for marketing. A great example is the Coppa Club chain in London that periodically offers outdoor seating in igloos and pods. People love a celebration, and usually don’t need to be persuaded to make an event of it!

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4 Ways to Pivot Your Restaurant’s Business Model During COVID-19

7 Shifts

The meal kit industry, which has been around since 2007, hit $5 billion in annual revenue in 2019—but growth in the industry was slow pre-COVID-19. Offer meal kits ?? If you have many groceries, inventory, or portioned goods, consider offering meal kits to diners to cook at home.

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A Guide to Effective Instagram Marketing For Restaurants

Social Hospitality

Play Tag Ever since Chris Messina’s #barcamp hashtag turned up on social media in 2007, hashtags have been big business for marketing. A great example is the Coppa Club chain in London that periodically offers outdoor seating in igloos and pods. People love a celebration, and usually don’t need to be persuaded to make an event of it!

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Eight Ways Restaurants Can Prepare for a New Normal 

Modern Restaurant Management

How restaurants are laid out, in terms of flow and concentration of seating, will be key sensitivities to address. It will be important to balance the table-turns required to return to profit while acknowledging lingering desires for physical distancing. Mixt Greens Yerba Buena ©Eric Rorer.

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Top 15 Restaurants with Private Dining Rooms in Memphis

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The rooms are perfect for business meetings, seated dinners, or cocktail receptions. In 1987, Café Society opened in Memphis, and in 2007, Café Society welcomed new owner, Chef Cullen Kent, who studied the culinary arts in Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. The private dining rooms offer a seat for parties of two to twelve people.

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Five Food & Hospitality Trends for a Post-Lockdown World

Future Food

As a side note, in 2007/8 when the GFC hit, smartphones were still in the Genesis phase! Coffee giant Starbuck’s launched its first “Starbucks Pickup” store in November 2019 with a similar model that provides for no in-store seating and with ordering done solely through its App portal. Great for customers and great for business! (As

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The Best Mexican Restaurants in Washington DC

Restaurant Clicks

Celebrity Chef and Humanitarian José Andrés opened Oyamel in 2007, and it has been a favorite Mexican restaurant in the D.C. A casual Mexican restaurant, seating is limited in their Del Ray location, though more spacious in their Arlington locations. Oyamel is a top Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C. area ever since.