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Boost Your Restaurant Business with Five Local Marketing Tips

Modern Restaurant Management

So it makes good business sense to revamp your marketing strategies. Today, examine the effects the pandemic has had on the restaurant and food service industry as well as five simple but effective marketing techniques to boost your local business. Five Local Marketing Strategies. The Pandemic and the Restaurant Business.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Since then, gift card sales have declined, but online ordering and merchandise sales have both increased steadily: Online orders have increased 50 percent week-over-week for the last three weeks. New York businesses saw a decline beginning as early as March 9, 2020 and now show a 63 percent YOY decline. 6 preferred brand.”

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How to Create a Successful Visual Brand for Your Restaurant in 2020

Modern Restaurant Management

But, if you have a playful style that could be embodied by a mascot character, consider developing a fun mascot figurehead to speak directly to your customers from your social media posts, signage, menu, website, and maybe even merchandise. Your Website. Your online presence is almost as important as your restaurant itself.

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Inside the Starbucks Collectors Cup Market, Where a Single Tumbler Can Sell for Nearly $2K

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Which means that collectors have to visit the stores or make a foray into a secondary market that is both thriving and competitive. When the cups hit the secondary market, it’s often at a pretty substantial mark-up. And of course, a market this hot has predictably inspired some fraud.

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What Restaurateurs Need to Know Right Now About the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Market these bundles to parents, since they’re great for keeping kids entertained while they’re home from school. If your restaurant has any branded merchandise, such as t-shirts, mugs, or hats, don’t forget to include it on your menu. Put grocery and pantry goods on the menu, too. Unfortunately, there’s some fine print here.

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Ultimate Restaurant Website Design Guide for Beginners

7 Shifts

According to a survey conducted by S&P Global Market Intelligence, 40% of Americans are ordering more food for takeout and delivery now than they were before the pandemic. For example, Shopify’s app store lets you connect more than 90 CRMs and 600 marketing tools to your website.

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How I Got My Job: Designing NYC’s Coolest Restaurant Merch and Food Labels

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My designs range from branding (logos, menus, merchandise) to physical assets (wallpapers, lighting, and events) to digital assets (social media, emails). Labels are very direct for branding and marketing. Compared to 2019, 2020 was definitely a quieter year with a lot of uncertainty. The second part of my job is design.

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