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The Ultimate Guide to Local Restaurant Marketing 2025

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Keep your hours updated as well, especially if you have special holiday hours or seasonal changes. Host special events Special events like trivia nights, live music, or charity fundraisers help bring in foot traffic and create lasting memories, encouraging customers to return. Use local keywords in your social media posts, too.

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Perkins and Huddle House aim for revivals with boba, smash burgers and drive-thrus

Restaurant Business

They specialize in breakfast staples, homestyle favorites and homey atmospheres—Perkins largely in the Midwest and East Coast and Huddle House in the South. It also sports the chain’s new name and logo. The Atlanta-based company is hoping that more modern food and restaurants will help its brands break through with younger consumers.

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17 Restaurant Promotion Ideas To Boost Orders And Customer Loyalty

ChowNow

If youve got a big outdoor patio, maybe a summer evening special event is the best move. A restaurant marketing strategy that works for a sports bar might fall flat at a vegan cafe. It could be a fall-inspired cocktail, a one-week burger special, or a collab dish made with a local farm or bakery. National Pizza Day. Burger Week.

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The Ultimate Guide To Restaurant Marketing: Strategies for Restaurant Operators In 2025

ChowNow

Show your restaurants personality, team, and daily specials to keep your audience engaged. Share upcoming specials, exclusive discounts, or behind-the-scenes stories about your restaurant. Reach a wider audience with online advertising. Reposting customer content creates a connection and acts as free marketing for your brand.

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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

The quicker businesses can feed that information back into operations, the better, whether for personalized dining, staffing optimization, or advertising and marketing. The question now becomes – how to make sense of that data and use it to elevate the dining experience.

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7 Brilliant Ideas for Restaurant Grand Opening Marketing

Restaurant Engine

For example, if you are a sports-themed restaurant serving burgers and pizza, look for sports influencers as well. Sell this by saying you’ll add them to all your grand opening event advertising. #5: For example, you can make your party romantic for Valentine’s Day and serve a special meal and love-themed dessert.

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These full-service restaurant chains opened the most locations last year

Restaurant Business

sports bar segment. At about 1,500 square feet, Go locations are much smaller than Buffalo Wild Wings’ sprawling sports bars, giving the brand more flexible real estate options. The answer might surprise you, in more ways than one. It was not an upstart growth chain, or an established juggernaut like Texas Roadhouse.