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How To Do Restaurant Week the Right Way

Modern Restaurant Management

While having a special menu for Restaurant Week is important, so is keeping your bottom line in check. Consider how profitable and scalable your special menu items are with a cost/benefit analysis to ensure you’ll break even or come out ahead when the week is over. But don’t stop there.

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How to Boost Diner Traffic and Increase Order Volume

ChowNow

Offer Limited-Time Specials to Create Urgency Nothing motivates diners quite like a deal that wont last forever. Limited-time specials create a sense of urgency, encouraging customers to order now instead of waiting. To see the biggest impact from these limited-time specials, promote them through email, social media, and your website.

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Seven Top Restaurant Marketing Ideas And Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

Provide Free Meals on Special Occasions. Nothing creates loyal customers like remembering their special days and offering them free meals on those days. This strategy helps in creating a special bond between the customer and the outlet. Then prepare to wow them with a special offer. You want a piece of this action.

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5 Practical Steps To Building A Restaurant Marketing Budget

ChowNow

Increase sales by promoting high-margin menu items and special offers. Email Marketing Ideal for building loyalty with repeat customers through special offers and updates. If youd like to learn about how ChowNows marketing tools, such as Automated Email Marketing can benefit your restaurant and simplify your budget, book a demo.

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Four Ways to Improve Your Gluten-Free Marketing Campaigns

Modern Restaurant Management

In 2021, restaurants can build on this idea and showcase their knowledge of safe food handling procedures through online cooking demos. During the demo, set up your filming area the same way you organize your kitchen to show viewers that you know how to safely handle and store gluten-free ingredients and equipment to avoid cross-contact.

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Creating Vibrant Vintage Vibes

Modern Restaurant Management

As architects and leaders at AO, we had the special opportunity to convert a historic corner building in our own neighborhood of Old Towne Orange, California., where our own offices have been for more than 45 years, into a contemporary American whiskey bar, Bosscat Kitchen and Libations.

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10 Email Marketing Ideas for Restaurants to Drive Sales

ChowNow

Profile a special dish. Feature a mouthwatering photo in your email, describe what makes the dish special, and tell your guests how to order it. Make your email subscribers feel special by giving them exclusive access to a secret menu item. Promote a discount or special dish for a holiday. Tell your guests about it!