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17 Restaurant Promotion Ideas To Boost Orders And Customer Loyalty

ChowNow

Promote Mobile App Downloads If you have a mobile app , you need to market it, not just let it sit in the background. The more people who download it, the easier it becomes to drive online ordering, send exclusive offers, and build real customer engagement. Make it feel like a VIP access pass, not just another tool.

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How to Build a Food Delivery App for Your Restaurant

The Rail

Forge partnerships with local food influencers to create authentic buzz and attract new users. Additionally, host promotional events or offer app-exclusive discounts to incentivize downloads and build a loyal user base. Costs to Build a Food Delivery App The cost of building a food delivery app depends on several factors: Features.

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Why Takeout Is the Key to Restaurant Success (And How to Use It to Build Customer Loyalty)

ChowNow

In ChowNows survey, 78% of diners said that an easy online ordering process influences their decision to reorder takeout or delivery from a restaurant. Download your guide now and start building a takeout strategy that works for you. Want to learn exactly how to build a takeout program that keeps customers coming back?

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Your Guide To Restaurant Email Marketing In 2025

ChowNow

And it works 59% of respondents say marketing emails influence their purchase decisions. Encourage customers to explore the menu and download your restaurant app to make things easier. That means the hardest (and most expensive) partgetting a new customer through the dooris already done. Monthly promos to keep customers excited.

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Digital Dining: What Restaurants Need to Know Now

Modern Restaurant Management

Just 20 percent of non-frequent users downloaded at least two restaurant apps. Unsurprisingly, Gen Zers were the most likely to download in 2023 – 45 percent have more apps now than in 2022. RMS dug deep into many influences on dining choices – including social media. Why does this matter to your bottom line?

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Practical Restaurant Marketing Inspiration in 2022

Modern Restaurant Management

One of the most common mistakes for restaurants is to have a menu available only as a PDF, which needs to be downloaded. It needs to be visible to casual browsers who simply won’t take the time to download information that should be easily accessible. The Influencer Question. Instead, look at macro-influencers.

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Building a Winning CMO-CFO Relationship with Better Marketing Data

Modern Restaurant Management

What is the lifetime value of an app-downloading customer over a non-app customer, and does that incremental value outweigh the cost of getting the customer to download the app in the first place? You know, the usual in 2021. Does the cost of a SaaS-based recommendation engine outweigh its benefits?