Modern Restaurant Management

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. You need to have a long-standing social media presence. I also want you to create three posts a week with pictures for Facebook and Instagram.

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Social Media Book Back of House Take-out 432

The Rail

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Here are five ways new hospitality venues can use social media to shout about their arrival on the local High Street. 5 Social Media Marketing Tips for New Bars and Restaurants Be Consistent The first thing you need to do as a new bar or restaurant is to ensure you’re posting regularly on social media.

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Social Media Customer Experience Bar Customer Service 130

The Rail

APRIL 4, 2023

When it comes to video marketing for your restaurant on social media, there are a myriad of tips, tricks, topics, and trends that you can implement as soon as today in order to leverage your audience and turn it into a sea of loyal, cash-paying patrons. That’s where you should be advertising and staying at the top of their minds.

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Social Media Front of House Advertising 2022 264

Social Hospitality: Restaurants

APRIL 5, 2019

Today’s restaurateurs are lucky — gone are the days of massive spending to advertise their offerings to draw in new customers. Instead, many eateries rely solely on the power of social media to pique hungry people’s interest. And, for the most part, using social media as a way to advertise is free.

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Social Media Advertising Customer Experience Fine Dining 225

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 1, 2024

Restaurant brands need to pay attention to evolving media consumptions in order to better engage with potential customers, according to results of a year-long study conducted by Digital Turbine in collaboration with Qrious Insight. Mobile gaming-first audiences were shown 61 percent fewer ads than social media-first audiences.

Social Media 450

Social Media Mobile Ordering Advertising Website Management 450

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 4, 2025

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked Murray for her insights on how and why to change a restaurant’s concept, social media marketing, and more. I’ve also taken surveys on social media and asked people what they wanted to see and eat. They are the ones leaving reviews and making social media posts.

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Social Media Customer Service Customer Experience Influencer 221

Modern Restaurant Management

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. This will be an interesting space to watch as the evolution of online and social commerce directly impacts what consumers demand from restaurant content at every touchpoint.

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2025 Loyalty Program Social Media Fast Casual 419

Goliath Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Social media continues to be one of the best marketing channels of the century. Social media is an essential component of many brands’ marketing strategies. 90% of marketers say that social media marketing has increased their business exposure. User-generated content vs. Traditional advertisements.

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Goliath Consulting

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

It’s now the standard that business owners use social media to promote their businesses. Restaurant owners, especially, must be focused on marketing their products on social media. Social media is an important influence on a consumer’s buying decisions. Build your social media presence.

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Social Media Marketing Influencer Customer Service 243

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 30, 2025

They also adapted how they reach their customers by investing in restaurant and Instagram marketing, working with local influencers, and running targeted advertisements. Social media is perfect for this and can be helpful for responding to customer comments, doing live videos, or sending direct support messages.

Customer Experience 252

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Email Marketing 252

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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Recruiting Hiring Marketing Advertising 531

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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Marketing Social Media Mobile Ordering Website Management 508

Modern Restaurant Management

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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Social Media Advertising Download Marketing 531

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. Think about how you’ll want to advertise on social media and in print, such as with flyers or table tents. To attract new customers, use outreach methods like social media.

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Social Media Seasonal Menu Advertising Events 563

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 28, 2022

You can display images and descriptions of your food and advertise special offers. You can also use your mouth-watering images for advertising your food on your website. Use Social Media to Promote Your Business. Ghost kitchens are a modern concept, so using modern promotional techniques like social media makes sense.

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Social Media Small Business Advertising Food Order 528

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.

Social Media 539

Social Media Online Ordering Coupons Advertising 539

Modern Restaurant Management

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. You can use social listening and Google Alerts to find bad reviews. Create a Social Media Campaign. Create an Email Marketing Campaign.

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Delivery Marketing Email Marketing Social Media 471

Social Hospitality: Restaurants

JUNE 22, 2020

The image-based social network now has a revenue of approximately $6.84 Restaurants across the globe now use Instagram to advertise their wares and, many even create bespoke dishes which are designed specifically to be shown off on the platform. To start out with any kind of social media for business, planning is key.

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Marketing Social Media Advertising 2007 440

ChowNow

MAY 30, 2025

Leverage your restaurants social media insights, feedback from staff and customers, and even your order history to shape your decision. Limited-time offers also give you content for social media, email, and your website. Create a Photo Contest On Social Media Launch a simple photo contest.

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Ordering Loyalty Program Social Media Email Marketing 195

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

AUGUST 18, 2020

Beyond just ensuring consumer health and safety , restaurants now reopening to the public need to create new marketing, entertainment and advertising strategies for incoming customers—especially now that live music could be unsafe, and just playing songs on a speaker might not be enough. Localized and Customized Advertising.

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Entertainment Social Media Sports Advertising 450

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Seventy-two percent of people choose a restaurant based on comments and images shared by others on Facebook, according to a study by Social Media Monthly. Those stats demonstrate the power and influence of social media. You might also decide to create a custom landing page for visitors from social media.

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Social Media Advertising Events Customer Experience 493

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 14, 2020

With social distancing guidelines specifying six feet of distance between customers in essential businesses, and most states ordering stay-at-home and shelter-in-place mandates, many restaurants that previously focused only on exceptional dine-in experiences, or those that thrived on foot traffic, have been forced to shutter.

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Customer Experience Online Ordering Social Media Mobile Ordering 558

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. Likewise, use social media to your advantage and post, post, post about your party.

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Advertising Social Media Food Truck Seasonal Menu 491

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Restaurants should advertise what precautions they're taking to keep people safe. If they have outdoor dining and require all of their staff to wear masks and gloves, practicing social distancing in the restaurant, they should prominently display those things everywhere. Blaze Bullock, SEO Strategist, Blaze Digital Marketing.

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Marketing Social Media Food Safety Email Marketing 585

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 8, 2022

The key is that it’s not just one technology—it can be umbrella of integrated technologies working together to produce compelling results including WiFI, text messaging, email, and digital displays to leverage guest engagement and social media to the maximum. Drive Organic Social Media. Reward Loyal Customers.

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Social Media Loyalty Program Email Marketing Point of Sale 468

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Does your dining room layout need a social distance inspired layout? Investing in digital marketing efforts, prioritizing Google ads, SEO and paid social media advertising can go a long way to reach new audiences during this challenging time. Should you consider entering the food truck business?

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Cash Management Social Media Seasonal Menu Food Truck 576

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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Advertising Social Media Point of Sale Supplies 481

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This can be achieved through a variety of tactics, such as media coverage, influencer partnerships and social media campaigns. Responding to customer feedback on social media, offering personalized experiences and creating original events are all PR strategies for building an engaged customer base.

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Social Media Employee Relations Food Safety Customer Service 493

ChowNow

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Promotions, local SEO, and social media ads can help bring more people through your door. A strong social media presence, community partnerships, and local events can get your name in front of more potential customers. Most advertising platforms, like Google and Facebook, provide this data in their reporting tools.

Marketing 195

Marketing Email Marketing Social Media Loyalty Program 195

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 24, 2023

Many depend on social media reviews and posts about a particular restaurant before deciding whether they will dine there or not. Nearly half of your market depends on social media comments for their restaurant reviews. If you’re using social media listening tools, what does a search for your brand name generate?

Social Media 493

Social Media Website Management SEO Customer Experience 493

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 24, 2024

Spice Up Your Social Media Presence Want to connect with your patrons in the digital age? Include social media in your digital marketing strategy. Over half of the world’s population uses social media, interacting with an average of six platforms.

Loyalty Program 493

Loyalty Program Social Media Coupons Customer Experience 493

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The challenge then becomes finding and purchasing a new domain name appropriate for the restaurant, updating all of the collateral branding pieces, online listings, social media, (possibly email accounts) and starting from scratch with SEO. Social Media Platforms Make sure you are granted access to any existing social media accounts.

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Social Media SEO Online Ordering Website Management 454

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. Benefits of Workflow Automation. Improving customer service.

Front of House 450

Front of House Social Media Email Marketing Point of Sale 450

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Even as restaurants reopen to some on-premise dining, takeout presents distinct advantages: Takeout can help make up for those “missing tables” resulting from social distancing requirements, even as it requires less of a restaurant’s biggest expense item: labor. Make Takeout a Social Event.

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Coupons Social Media Online Ordering Customer Experience 596

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 22, 2024

To do so, you must have an optimized website and engaging social media profiles. Make sure to add a clear sign-up form to your website and promote it on your social media channels. These social media personalities have loyal followers who trust the restaurants they suggest.

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Book Marketing Email Marketing Social Media 195

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Tactics like social media advertising, direct mail, couponing and streaming are more important than ever for staying top-of-mind and communicating that operations have dramatically changed to protect guests and workers.

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Technology Guest Recovery Kitchen Safety Social Media 600