ChowNow

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Building a restaurant marketing budget can feel overwhelming. With tight margins, unpredictable cash flow, and endless marketing options, its hard to know how much to spendor where to spend it. But without a clear budget, your restaurant risks losing customers to competitors who consistently promote their business.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2020

And while the pressures of the pandemic continue, customer loyalty can play a role in whether or not restaurants will sink or swim. It's reported that with as little as a five percent increase in customer retention, a business can improve its overall profits by up to 25 percent. First, consider adopting a touchless loyalty system.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Let’s explore 26 proven online marketing strategies to help your restaurant thrive. Target location-specific searches for more visibility The ultimate goal of your online marketing campaigns should be to bring in local customers to your restaurant. To do so, you must have an optimized website and engaging social media profiles.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Across the United States, businesses are suffering from unprecedented staffing shortages in the aftermath of COVID. With a critically shrunken talent pool, restaurants are racing to fill positions in every part of the business — front of house, back of house, and corporate teams. It relieves cashiers and reduces long lines.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Leverage Automated Email Marketing ChowNows Automated Email Marketing helps your restaurant bring customers back and increase orders with minimal effort. Email marketing is one of the most effective ways to stay top-of-mind with customers and remind them its time to order again from your restaurant.

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ChowNow

MAY 2, 2025

Your customer email list is your most valuable marketing asset, giving you an incredible ROI of $42 for every $1 you spend. But just building an email list isnt enough. And heres the real advantage: email still outperforms social media when it comes to open rates, click-through rates, and return on investment.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This guide will teach you everything you need to know about getting started with restaurant marketing. By the time you finish this article, youll know how to approach restaurant marketing the right way and not waste time doing guesswork, crossing your fingers, and then hoping you see new customers walking through the door.

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ChowNow

MARCH 19, 2025

Repeat business is what drives real growth, yet many restaurants struggle to keep takeout diners coming back. With competition increasing and third-party apps controlling customer relationships, building loyalty requires a smarter approach. Without that direct connection, customer loyalty becomes fragile.

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ChowNow

MARCH 27, 2025

If youre one of the thousands of restaurants that added online food delivery in recent years, you might be wondering: is it actually helping my business grow? The only way to know for sure is by tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) that drive business growth. What Impacts Order Volume?

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ChowNow

MARCH 21, 2025

Understanding your target market is the foundation of making smart decisions for your menu, pricing, and overall guest experience. Without a well-defined target market, restaurants risk wasting resources on strategies that dont connect and menu offerings that dont selltrying to appeal to everyone, but standing out to no one.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2025

First, we seek a deep understanding of the restauranteur’s vision and values, as well as their target audience and market positioning. Finally, we look at the launch strategy and marketing plan. We want a new brand to hit the market with impact. First is standing out in a market more crowded today than ever before.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

If your business isnt keeping up with the changes, you risk falling behind and not meeting modern customer expectations. They help with reservations and table management, staff scheduling and time management, inventory tracking, rewards programs, automated marketing, and more. Online ordering and delivery apps.

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The Restaurant Group

JANUARY 26, 2025

This is where restaurant loyalty programs shine. Loyalty programs offer dining rewards, creating a bond between customers and your business. These programs encourage repeat visits, boosting both customer satisfaction and restaurant profitability. Tiered Loyalty Systems: These programs have levels.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 9, 2020

These aren’t just adjectives explaining coffee flavors, but should also be terms that describe your coffee shop’s marketing campaigns. Keep reading as we share marketing tips designed to help small coffee shops better compete in today’s market. Crisp and sharp. Attracting New Customers. Out-Of-Home.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Here are a few simple strategies to help them understand how they can help your business: Use signage in-store and on your website: A clear message near your register, on your front door, or even on table tents can inform customers that ordering direct supports your business.

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Goliath Consulting

MARCH 15, 2022

Why you should consider adding a loyalty program for your restaurant. Loyalty programs are an essential tool to have in a business. 1 In addition, it was found that 78% of customers are more likely to continue to spend on a business if they have a customer loyalty program. They are 7.5

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Goliath Consulting

MARCH 15, 2022

Why you should consider adding a loyalty program for your restaurant. Loyalty programs are an essential tool to have in a business. 1 In addition, it was found that 78% of customers are more likely to continue to spend on a business if they have a customer loyalty program. They are 7.5

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2021

As a restaurant owner, digital marketing can be a daunting task that takes up valuable time, energy, and resources. Day-to-day demands – coupled with all of the FOH and BOH duties – can be simply too overwhelming for many small restaurant owners. A double win!

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The Rail

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Today, more than ever, restaurants are turning to custom-built apps to improve convenience, streamline operations, and foster customer loyalty. Building a food delivery app for your restaurant can help you expand your reach, streamline operations, and foster customer loyalty. If so, you’re not alone. The numbers speak for themselves.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

Other advancements include: integrating data from various sources, including social media, reviews, and loyalty programs, to gain a holistic view of customer behaviour as well as as well as the implementation of real-time analytics for immediate insights into customer behaviour and preferences.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 15, 2024

This can be done through several methods, such as email communications, social media postings, or even through verbal communication at the restaurant. Providing a small gift card to your restaurant when they fill out the survey helps ensure that customers make the time to do your survey and encourages them to return to your business later.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 14, 2020

In addition to the latest resources on COVID-19 restaurant and employee recovery programs, RestaurantsAct.com offers a brand new, industry-first interactive map of each state, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. This new site is a one-stop hub of critical information for restaurants, employees, customers and industry partners.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features consumers' dining desires, the power of personalization and the untapped opportunity in localized marketing. This sentiment was most prevalent with millennials, with 43 percent reporting an increase in loyalty.

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ChowNow

APRIL 15, 2025

Restaurant KPIs are numbers that go beyond basic accounting to help you see how every part of your business is performingfrom your profit margins to your guest experience. Instead of relying on gut feelings and guesswork, they give you clear, measurable data you can track over time to meet your key business objectives.

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ChowNow

MAY 9, 2025

These include: Food Costs Labor Costs Occupancy Costs Operating Costs Marketing and Promotions Expenses Every successful restaurant owner knows that tracking these isnt just a bookkeeping exercise; its how you spot opportunities to save money, collect data for better decision making, and run more efficiently.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 22, 2024

If you feel that digital marketing isn’t giving your local restaurant the results you need, then it's time to explore more targeted strategies. Local restaurant marketing can help you reach your target audience more effectively. Local restaurant marketing can help you reach your target audience more effectively.

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ChowNow

APRIL 4, 2025

This information might not sound groundbreaking at first, but its the foundation for building stronger relationships, creating smarter campaigns, and ultimately driving more repeat business. That interaction might seem small in the moment, but over time, it adds up to something bigger: loyalty. First-party ordering changes that.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 17, 2025

This video from Making Dough Restaurant Show – by Hengam Stanfield outlines three results-driven restaurant marketing strategies for 2025 that emphasize practical, actionable tactics, starting with cold email outreach coupled with complimentary food drops to potential customers.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The ideal customer for your business is the one who comes back time and time again. Growing a loyal customer base is a key to growing your business and keeping it profitable year-over-year. Customer retention is one of the most cost-efficient ways to grow your business. The coffee shop where the baristas seem happy to serve you.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2021

In this edition of MRM Research Roundup, we have news on understanding customer loyalty, beverage insights, restaurant supply loyalty, the influence of discounts, the state of payments and the evolution of gift cards. Customer satisfaction has traditionally been the main driver of loyalty. The Value of Trust.

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The Rail

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Video marketing is an essential tool to captivate audiences, drive foot traffic, and win the fierce battle for online attention. Taking it a step further than high-quality images , video marketing taps into the sensory appeal that text and photos cant achieve. Remember the days of beautiful dinner images on Instagram?

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ChowNow

APRIL 15, 2025

With the right strategy, you can reduce expenses and strengthen your business at the same time. In the restaurant business, operating costs are the day-to-day expenses required to keep your doors open and your kitchen firingeverything from rent to payroll to the packaging your to-go orders go out in.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 12, 2020

So far, 2020 has thrown marketing plans, advertising budgets, and restaurant growth out of the window. But as restaurants reopen and business starts to pick up again, it’s important you pick up your marketing plan too. Which is where your restaurant marketing plan comes in. What are they ordering?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2024

The website is one part of it, but it’s also about maintaining an active social media presence, offering a loyalty program, and investing in ongoing marketing campaigns. Inventory : Generally, when food costs go up, operators will raise their menu prices by a small amount. I think that’s definitely part of it.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 19, 2020

Listen to experts from legal, business, and marketing to join us to discuss the lasting implications of the coronavirus outbreak. “Our mission has always been focused on helping restaurants, and our hope is that the Seated hotline can make even a small impact to help restaurants persevere. .”

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SpotOn

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Loyalty programs offer a rare win-win for restaurant operators and guests alike. Guests get free food and operators gain a database of loyal customers, a tool for increasing sales, and a way to differentiate themselves in a competitive market. Like most facets of the industry, restaurant loyalty is easier said than done.

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ChowNow

MARCH 14, 2025

Small details, like remembering regular customers preferences or handling complaints with grace, can turn a one-time diner into a loyal regular. Restaurants that streamline their kitchen operations can handle busy rushes without sacrificing consistency, ensuring that every menu item meets your and customer expectations.

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