Restaurant Business

JUNE 11, 2025

Photo: Shutterstock DoorDash is doubling down on its advertising business. It’s part of a major expansion of the company’s advertising business, DoorDash Ads, which currently allows restaurants to buy promotions and sponsored listings within the DoorDash marketplace. For Amazon, advertising has become a $50 billion annual business.

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Modern Restaurant Management

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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Restaurant Business

JUNE 20, 2025

Toward the end of the quarter, the chain began advertising delivery on TV and elsewhere. Its white-labeled delivery offering with Uber has become a significant sales driver, accounting for 3.5% of sales in the quarter. About 40% to 50% of those sales were incremental, and takeout sales overall rose 20% year over year.

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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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The Salt

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A new study shows that advertising drives sales of high-sugar cereals when it's aimed directly at kids under 12.

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Modern Restaurant Management

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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Modern Restaurant Management

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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Modern Restaurant Management

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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Restaurant Business

JUNE 13, 2025

Continue to Site >>> Menu DoorDash completes acquisition of reservations platform SevenRooms Newsletter Search Restaurant Business Search Login Subscribe Newsletter Login Subscribe Topics Consumer Trends Food Beverage Emerging Brands Operations Technology Marketing Workforce Leadership Financing Data Top 500 Chains Top 100 Independents Future 50: Emerging (..)

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

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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Modern Restaurant Management

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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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

" As we head into 2025, Rose anticipates more operators will look to data when problem solving. "In "In addition to focusing on loyalty programs, operators are increasingly savvy about optimizing their store portfolio.

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Modern Restaurant Management

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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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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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 18, 2020

We advertised in local papers, supporting youth sports and wrapping our vehicles. We continued to advertise and market our food, focusing specifically on takeout and delivery to drive business. We continued to advertise and market our food, focusing specifically on takeout and delivery to drive business.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 17, 2025

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

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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Restaurant Business

JUNE 17, 2025

17, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn DoorDash now offers services like reservations and advertising. Then last week, DoorDash revealed that it had acquired Symbiosys, an ad tech startup that will allow restaurants to advertise themselves on places like Google, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat. Is that a good thing for restaurants?

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Modern Restaurant Management

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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Modern Restaurant Management

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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EATER

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

All this talk about seed oils has more customers wondering where they’re used, which is leading some restaurants to be more transparent about their ingredients and advertising themselves as not using seed oils in order to lure customers. How are restaurants like Carbone responding to seed-oil panic?

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Modern Restaurant Management

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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Modern Restaurant Management

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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7 Shifts

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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Restaurant Business

JUNE 12, 2025

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MARCH 5, 2020

In addition to its stringent data privacy requirements, GDPR requires covered entities to implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the security of the personal data they possess and process.

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Restaurant Technology Guys

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Title: Revolutionizing Restaurant Advertising with Finch: A Deep Dive into Digital Media for Venues In todays fast-paced, ever-evolving world of technology and digital media, restaurants are finding themselves navigating new terrains to engage with customers more dynamically.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 13, 2025

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

Digital advertising will become high priority. Whereas TV was a big part of the advertising mix for national chains and larger regional chains, the shift to off-premise will force restaurant brands to much more heavily lean into digital advertising channels than ever before.

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MAY 16, 2023

Perhaps you want to advertise a new garlic dipping sauce for your pizza shop or a new milkshake that goes great with the classic chicken and fries meal. Advertise New Products or Specials Digital signage is also a great way to advertise new products or specials.

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APRIL 4, 2025

This can be done through advertising and public relations portals. Of course, with advertising, you can convey exactly how you want your message relayed to the general public. This hurt the business bad and the restauranteur ended up closing their doors. And marketing is extremely important with guiding people to your location.

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