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Creating a restaurant website: Why it matters and how to nail it

Open for Business

A website can be a powerful tool for marketing your restaurant. Clearly communicating these details can improve reservation volume and foot traffic. Communicating your mission, inspiration, and unique offering—including visuals—makes people feel more invested in the experience. A method to collect guest email addresses.

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Enticing Restaurant Customers with Loyalty Programs and SMS

Modern Restaurant Management

Marketers and business leaders have heard the saying, “It’s cheaper to keep a customer than acquire a new one.” ” Usually, this comes up in conversations regarding B2B marketing strategies, but it also applies within the realm of B2C brands — especially restaurants.

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How to Handle Temporary Restaurant Closure during COVID-19

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Consider things like merchandise sales, inventory sales, or private cooking lessons. How to communicate your COVID-19 restaurant closure. Whether you decide to close your restaurant partially or fully, it’s important to communicate your decision properly to staff and customers. We’ll talk about this more later on.

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Keep your customers coming back: Effective communication strategies for hospitality

Kounta

Communicating in person. Here are some tips on what to focus on when communicating with a customer in-person: Non-verbal communication: This includes tone of voice, voice quality, eye contact when talking (a big one!), Where people often go wrong is communicating one thing verbally, and another non-verbally.

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Ultimate Restaurant Website Design Guide for Beginners

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According to a survey conducted by S&P Global Market Intelligence, 40% of Americans are ordering more food for takeout and delivery now than they were before the pandemic. For example, Shopify’s app store lets you connect more than 90 CRMs and 600 marketing tools to your website.

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4th of July Specials for Restaurants: Promotions and Ideas for 2021

Touch Bistro

Marketing and Promotions. Use marketing strategies such as social media (Facebook and Instagram), restaurant email marketing , your website, direct mail, and paid advertising. The Ultimate Guide to Restaurant Marketing. Everything you need to know about social media, digital marketing, SEO, and more!

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How I Got My Job: Designing NYC’s Coolest Restaurant Merch and Food Labels

EATER

My designs range from branding (logos, menus, merchandise) to physical assets (wallpapers, lighting, and events) to digital assets (social media, emails). Labels are very direct for branding and marketing. Wearing a certain piece of merch communicates so much about a person. The second part of my job is design.

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