EATER

OCTOBER 21, 2024

And this was on top of general griping about his restaurant’s high prices compared to other Asian restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley, says Yang. Preparing customers for higher prices requires initiating an explicit conversation the customer usually won’t start. We had been at $2.50 a piece, and now we’re up to around $2.65.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

The quicker businesses can feed that information back into operations, the better, whether for personalized dining, staffing optimization, or advertising and marketing. Value is about more than price—it’s about the quality of the food, the atmosphere, and the service.

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2025 Loyalty Program Social Media Fast Casual 419

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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Modern Restaurant Management

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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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

When deciding where to recruit restaurant workers online, many job platforms promise to plaster your jobs across the Web for a fixed price. The key here is in understanding the two types of advertising – traditional v. Programmatic job advertising takes a profile-driven data approach. Positioning is key to job advertising.

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MAY 20, 2025

Successful chains like Chipotle and Shake Shack and high-growth brands like Cava are leaning into the fact that value isn’t just about price—it’s the perception of value, which includes portion size, quality, customization and convenience.

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Fast Casual Casual 2025 Dietary Restrictions 221

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Menu and Price Points. This includes places that may be a price point above or below yours. Closely related to the menu and price point is the quality of food your competitors are serving. If they are charging high prices for mediocre food, your restaurant could charge higher prices for better. Food Quality.

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EATER

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In just the last couple of years, the country has tallied one of the worlds highest inflation rates, and a new far-right governments attempts to rein in price increases in 2024 triggered a recession and surging poverty. As of late November, that price was at 25,000 pesos, or about $22, up from 9,000 a year prior.)

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Modern Restaurant Management

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

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

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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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.

Online Ordering 539

Online Ordering Social Media Coupons Advertising 539

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The demand for earlier reservations provides restaurants the opportunity to get creative when it comes to driving traffic for second and third seating’s with memorable experiences, dynamic pricing, or late-night specials. Restaurants have an opportunity to offer premium, value-add experiences that justify higher price points.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 17, 2025

Convenience (66%) drives the majority of foodservice sales at convenience stores, but promotions and discounts (11%), taste (7%) and price (6%) are also driving sales that might otherwise go to a fast-food restaurant. Most c-store diners opt to eat in the car, either while parked or while driving.

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Food Fast Casual Leadership Loyalty Program 275

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 9, 2024

Restaurants trying to attract price conscious diners should make sure that their menus carry several low-cost, higher margin staples that can be sold at reasonable prices. Consider reducing the size and price of certain staples and then offering a “super-sized” portion for a higher price.

Employee Relations 484

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 11, 2025

The convenience-retailing giant on Wednesday announced a Craveables Value Menu, pitting it in head-to-head competition with fast-food chains also looking to win consumers over with low prices. The move comes as consumers continue to limit their visits to restaurants and rein in their basket sizes amid elevated prices.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 26, 2022

In order to attract more customers, advertise your prix fixe Valentine’s Day menu on social media, flyers, and more. To determine this number, look at how much your average customer would spend and increase the price. Think about how you’ll want to advertise on social media and in print, such as with flyers or table tents.

Social Media 563

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

At the same time, producers, suppliers and shipping companies have increased their prices; rent and energy prices have also continued to go up vis-à-vis the impact of the Ukraine-Russia conflict. Often, the gap between the kind of guest experiences being advertised is different from the experiences provided.

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Recruiting Guest Recovery Advertising Food Supply 474

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 6, 2022

Substantial price hikes on restaurant menus are causing consumers to choose other options aside from eating or taking out, and a ‘tipping point’ is on the horizon where inflation will depress overall demand. By decreasing overall disposable income, inflation erodes consumer purchasing power.

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APRIL 28, 2022

One-fifth of consumers rate menu price as poor. Provoke Insights is a full-service market research firm specializing in branding, advertising, and content marketing initiatives. This includes one-fifth of diners who are overall eating out less. Millennials, however, are now eating out more than pre-pandemic.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 21, 2024

While three in four survey respondents believe restaurant prices are higher, other factors, such as flavor, outweigh price when ordering specialty beverages, particularly in the full-service segment. During a time of increased price sensitivity, beverages create an opportunity to increase the total check.

Beverage 493

Beverage Fast Casual Seasonal Menu Customer Experience 493

Restaurant Business

JUNE 17, 2025

Wishnow, a former Dunkin’ and Taco Bell franchisee, tapped menu consultants and brand builders The Culinary Edge to design a menu that falls somewhere between Salad and Go and Sweetgreen, price-wise. The way Greenlane prices its menu has evolved since the first unit opened in 2023.

Fast Casual 162

Fast Casual Leadership Mobile Ordering Casual 162

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Restaurant guests in cost-saving mode are eating out less and more conscious of menu prices, according to Restaurants: Consumer Trends Fall 2022/Winter 2023 a report produced by Provoke Insights in collaboration with Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine.

Fine Dining 473

Fine Dining Seasonal Menu Social Media 2022 473

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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Leadership Advertising 2025 Reservations 185

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Build Social Media Presence : As soon as you start to advertise your business is up for sale, the first thing a potential buyer will do is Google your restaurant. By the end of the first day, we had three full price offers. You need to have a long-standing social media presence. We decided it was time.

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Social Media Book Back of House Take-out 432

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 30, 2025

The primary focus of the websites is having what you need, at a good price. They also adapted how they reach their customers by investing in restaurant and Instagram marketing, working with local influencers, and running targeted advertisements. In many cases, they’ve basically taken people out of the equation almost entirely.

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Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Email Marketing 251

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Check out Brett McHale's Wordstream blog on how to advertise local businesses on Facebook. You can tailor certain ads related to time-specific deals you might be offering, such as meat-free Mondays, half-price burger Wednesdays, or happy hour Fridays. Don't sell yourself short on this. I know it's stating the obvious.

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Social Media Advertising Events Customer Experience 493

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Explore areas where you can purchase supplies in bulk to cut long-term costs, consider raising prices where it makes sense, and work to improve discounts and payment terms with your suppliers. It’s a good time to make sure you’re accounting for potential effects of the pandemic as you create next year’s budget.

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Cash Management Social Media Seasonal Menu Food Truck 576

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The company discovered that bad actors are advertising their services on Telegram forums in order to purchase food and beverage orders at a reduced price, using stolen payment information on behalf of customers.

Delivery 474

Delivery Food Safety Online Ordering Food Order 474

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.

Loyalty Program 195

Loyalty Program Fast Casual Social Media Email Marketing 195

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 2, 2024

If everyone is advertising “value,” is it really value? Value pricing will eventually become a less effective tactic for restaurant brands with the market becoming oversaturated with discounted options. To do so, they must evaluate how value can be derived outside of price point.

Loyalty Program 449

Loyalty Program Mobile Ordering Coupons Customer Experience 449

Indoor Media

JULY 18, 2020

Auto repair in-store advertising tactics deliver your message to qualified, engaged consumers in the same place where they can make a purchase. Combined with your outbound marketing tactics, in-store advertising creates a well-rounded marketing strategy for your auto shop. What is in-store advertising? The lesson learned?

Advertising 161

Advertising Coupons Customer Service Customer Experience 161

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 30, 2022

83 percent of marketing departments automate social media posting, 75 percent automate email marketing, 58 percent automate social media advertising, and 36 percent automate social media engagement. Sales teams and marketers are deploying sales and marketing technology to automate the customers' journey and accelerate conversions.

Front of House 450

Front of House Social Media Email Marketing Point of Sale 450

Restaurant Business

JUNE 6, 2025

It is in California The Bottom Line: Data from Technomic’s Price Pulse shows that the average price for a medium Big Mac meal in California is about the same as the price for a Big Smasher on Chili’s 3-for-Me menu. Premium Financing Is Chilis as cheap as McDonalds?

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Fast Casual Leadership 2025 2024 147

EATER

MARCH 21, 2022

District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine is suing Grubhub for deceptive business practices, saying its food delivery app covertly inflates prices for diners who order through it. Grubhub charged hidden fees and used bait-and-switch advertising tactics — which are illegal.”. Grubhub has not misrepresented its fees,” it says.

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Pricing Customer Service Online Ordering Restaurant Law 246

Indoor Media

AUGUST 8, 2020

Oil change coupons can be used in all kinds of coupon advertising – paid social media ads, direct mail postcards, and grocery store receipts. Dollars off, flat price, combined with other services. A regularly priced $40 oil change with a 35% margin equals $14 in profit for your auto repair shop on each oil change. Flat Price.

Coupons 158

Coupons Advertising Customer Service Point of Sale 158

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 9, 2023

Paying attention to pricing and menu design is also crucial as restaurants need to gauge what their customers order and the appropriate prices they will pay for these dishes. Any compromise on these lines will lead to customer disappointment and loss of business.

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