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

Open for Business

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. OpenTable offers a customizable reservation widget you can easily add to your website.

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Ultimate Restaurant Website Design Guide for Beginners

7 Shifts

Reservations - Embed your reservations platform’s widget onto your website to encourage customers to book directly through you instead of via a third party. Include essential pages like "Menu," "About Us," "Contact," "Reserve," and "Order Now" in the navigation bar. Online ordering - Ditto.

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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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Reopening Your Restaurant? Here’s Your Digital To-Do List

ChowNow

In fact, it seems common now for eateries to have pantry items, take-and-bake bread, and merchandise on their menus. Don’t count out merchandise either—it just sends more revenue to your restaurant. Keep communicating with your customers about your restaurant’s reopening. Are you using a reservations system?

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

Touch Bistro

A restaurant reservations system that helps you fill tables in advance. A restaurant reservations system helps you manage all your bookings digitally so you can reduce those dreaded no-shows and ensure you’re maximizing all your available tables – something that’s especially important on a busy holiday like July 4th. Embrace the View.

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Pivoting From an Economic Downturn

Modern Restaurant Management

Communicate and Embody Cleanliness. Communicate with your customers. Share new processes, whether with reservations and call-ahead seating, updated cleaning protocols, employee checks before shifts, and any other business changes. Do your customers see your staff disinfecting menus in between parties? On a Positive Note.

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10 Ways Coffee Shops Can Make The Most Of Social Media

The Restaurant Times

Merchandise coffee-related products in your store by posting aesthetic images of coffee mugs, jars, t-shirts, and equipment for brewing coffee at home! Whenever your customers have any questions about promotional events, coffee shop reservations, timings, or they just want to drop in and say hello, make sure to respond to them instantly.