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Social Marketing: Insights from Meta’s Restaurant Summit

Modern Restaurant Management

Advertising for the Hungry Consumer Digital channels are playing their greatest role in shopping to date, and it’s well known that many diners are looking up restaurant menus before visiting. It’s no wonder that advertisers are interested in using the latest ad products we’ve brought to market. in ROAS 4. The result?

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DoorDash acquires tech firm Symbiosys to supercharge its advertising business

Restaurant Business

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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Dinner, With a Side of Climate Preaching

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Changing temperatures and weather patterns mean ingredients that were once common are now harder to come by , and sourcing ingredients from sustainable farms can often be more expensive. Customers who are attracted to sustainable eating “come find us because of our sourcing,” he adds, but “there’s only so many places we can communicate that.”

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Does Prioritizing Digital at the Expense of Direct Mail Lose Money for Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

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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Families buy more sugary cereal if advertising targets kids, not adults

The Salt

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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Seven Tips on How to Use Facebook Ads for Restaurants to Get More Customers

Modern Restaurant Management

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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Why Are People So Freaked Out About Seed Oils?

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A 2023 study reports that seed oils are the most common source of linoleic acid, a polyunsaturated omega-6 fatty acid, which accounts for “over 25% of the total calorie intake for the average person.” Olive oil contains less polyunsaturated fat , and more antioxidants than canola oil. But you really don’t need to. Seed oils are not poison.