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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. Include hours of operation, location, map, and contact information (phone number and email). A method to collect guest email addresses. Use this email marketing list to communicate updates or special occasions in the future. A standalone menu page.

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How to Handle Temporary Restaurant Closure during COVID-19

7 Shifts

Consider things like merchandise sales, inventory sales, or private cooking lessons. Sending an announcement in your email newsletter Updating your hours on your Google listing, Yelp page, TripAdvisor profile, etc. Let customers know that you’ll only be sharing recipes through your email newsletter.

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Leveraging Relationships to Build a Better Bar Program

Goliath Consulting

Your bar gets free product to try out different flavors or drop the price on name brand spirits, the distributor keeps their inventory fluid and product shipping. These brand ambassadors are a bar manager’s gateway to endless promotions that rouse excitement from guests and reduce the ordering cost and inventory of brands.

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What Restaurateurs Need to Know Right Now About the COVID-19 Pandemic

ChowNow

Offer large format takeout or a family-style to move more inventory. Market these bundles to parents, since they’re great for keeping kids entertained while they’re home from school. If your restaurant has any branded merchandise, such as t-shirts, mugs, or hats, don’t forget to include it on your menu.

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How the Best Mobile POS System Can Help Grow Your Retail Business

BNG Point of Sale

A similar tool not only rings up merchandise, it improves sales, service, and the way your business functions. Immediate Access to Inventory. Customers no longer wait while a sales representative disappears to check inventory. Access to inventory quickens the shopping and purchasing process. It’s called Mobile POS.

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Gift Card Marketing During COVID-19 and How It Can Help Restaurants

Touch Bistro

As the COVID-19 pandemic slowly begins to recede, many restaurants are turning to gift card marketing as part of their 2021 recovery plan. In other words, gift card marketing is a valuable way to diversify your revenue stream, while increasing customer volume – two factors that are essential to business recovery in 2021.

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Restaurant Profit Margins: A No-Brainer Guide to Maximizing Your Profits

Notch

Shifts in the real estate market can raise rent. Conduct daily inventories. Unfortunately, employees or even suppliers and other guests may help themselves to your inventory in all sorts of ways if the opportunity arises. The former is usually handled outside of the restaurant, in the form of marketing and promotions.