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How to Plan Your Restaurant's Grand Re-Opening Event

7 Shifts

1 Set goals for the event ?? Having a specific goal will help you plan out your budget, labor needs, marketing strategy, messaging, and organization before the event. Plan your menu To maximize the exclusivity of the event, plan a limited-time, reduced menu to showcase new dishes in your restaurant. Invite influencers ??

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10 Tips To Make Your Franchise Feel Local

Modern Restaurant Management

Unlike coupons or discount mailers, the proven offers are gift certificates to treat customers who are weary from unpacking boxes and painting rooms. Treat local influencers to a meal. Social influencers are the new celebrity endorsement. Invite some of your area’s most popular influencers to dine at your restaurant.

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How QSR Brands Can Best Position Themselves for Non-Traditional Expansion

Modern Restaurant Management

Mobile ordering, contactless payments and self-service kiosks can all improve the speed and convenience of the ordering process, which is especially important in the fast-paced environment of an airport terminal or in between quarters at a sporting event.

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Impress Locals in 5 Easy Steps

Indoor Media

Try to look at your competition to identify what community bloggers, influencers, or leaders they’ve paired up with in the past. After one “influencer” posts content with your business tagged, a sea of response content will come flooding in, and fans will start tagging your business left and right. . Host an Event .

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4 Proven Strategies For UK Restaurants To Make Their Opening Event A Grand Success

The Restaurant Times

It is recommended that you get on board an event planner who would take care of your restaurant inauguration for you. . This is essentially the period when you introduce your restaurant, the menu, the decor, and everything to your family, friends, vendors, and influencers in the community. Host An Opening Event.

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Restaurants with Strong Brand Identities Captivate Gen Z

Modern Restaurant Management

As one of the largest generations of consumers, they continually influence the ways restaurants innovate, and there are identifiable characteristics that differentiate Gen Z consumers from their older counterparts. Loyalty rewards don’t have to include discounts and coupons anymore.

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How to Start a Restaurant Blog

Indoor Media

By publishing helpful and relevant content, your restaurant can increase its local influence and reach new customers and regulars alike. Creating content around local festivals, events, or holidays is smart to ensure your restaurant is taking control of a niche market.

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