Restaurant Marketing

A real, raw, and relevant look at the reality of marketing your bar or restaurant in today’s noisy online world. Learn why social media marketing has lost its effectiveness over the years and how content marketing can give you a simple, much-needed edge.

Being a server--well, a good server--is so much more than taking an order and dropping food off at a table. Serving with hospitality can open doors to meaningful interactions with strangers, long-term relationships with regulars, and, ultimately, consistent financial success. If you’re new to the restaurant industry, want to improve your skills, or just curious about how to succeed as a server, look no further. As an eight-year veteran and single mom who has been able to raise two kids on server income alone, you can trust me when I say I know what I’m talking about.

People don’t open restaurants just because they want to start a business. People open restaurants because they are building a dream. You can create the restaurant of your dreams. You can also be profitable, pay your vendors, your staff, and yourself, and savor the joys of hospitality without stress and uncertainty.

If you’re one of the many struggling with restaurant marketing ideas and need fresh marketing strategies, look no further! This book was created to help restaurant owners and managers utilize online marketing strategies that aren’t overused and tired in the digital age. Your livelihood deserves a fighting chance during these trying times, and that’s what this book offers. It’s time to open your eyes and see your restaurant business in a whole new light.

Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat, as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability.

Restaurants boast some of the highest failure rates of any industry, yet even worse is the sheer number of concepts that struggle just to break even. In The Restaurant Marketing Mindset, Chip Klose introduces a series of mindset shifts and actionable frameworks to help owners and operators finally take control of their marketing.

This book is for any restaurant or bar owner who's fed up with ineffective marketing fads and ready for the unvarnished truth. It's time to take control of your restaurant marketing, understand what truly works, and avoid the mistakes that are costing you customers and profits.

When Chef Emily is left at the altar in front of her family and friends, she swears off love and instead throws herself into her new business: a restaurant with a difference. There's only one communal table, designed with the single diner in mind. Now it's two years later, and with her business thriving with regular customers, romance is still the last thing on Emily's mind - until she receives a letter from her ex who is returning home from Canada with a burning question for her....

Instagram is the home of all kinds of audiences, topping well over one billion monthly users. With that in mind, if you were wondering whether your targeted audience is on Instagram, the answer is a guaranteed yes. Instagram’s potential is practically limitless. More and more people seem to be ditching traditional marketing methods and embracing the power of Instagram in their efforts to best promote their businesses.

Journeying 2,000 years into the past, food critic and writer William Sitwell artfully traces the earliest origins of the widespread cultural practice of eating out, from its most basic to most sophisticated forms. Whether he’s traversing the inns and taverns of Pompeii before its destruction in AD 79, witnessing the tumultuous emergence of fine dining during the French Revolution, or recounting the mid-20th-century invention of the taco machine in New York City, Sitwell’s engaging prose gives listeners a front-row seat to the restaurant experience across cultures and millennia.

The Heart of Hospitality is the essential guide to creating exceptional customer service and hospitality for guests of all generations, including millennials, boomers, and more.

Google, Yelp, and TripAdvisor are often the consumer’s first impression of your brand, especially in a tourist economy. Is your business dominating your competition, or have you not addressed your search engine ranking because you “show up” if you Google your own business? Good enough, right? Not even close. What works for your competitor’s brand could be worthless for yours.

In the 1970s, New York City was plagued by crime, filth, and an ineffective government. The city was falling apart, and even the newly constructed World Trade Center threatened to be a fiasco. But in April 1976, a quarter-mile up on the 107th floor of the North Tower, a new restaurant called Windows on the World opened its doors - a glittering sign that New York wasn't done just yet. In The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World, journalist Tom Roston tells the complete history of this incredible restaurant, from its stunning $14-million opening to 9/11 and its tragic end.

A lot of restaurants are closing their doors forever due to the mandatory pandemic shutdowns. Since most restaurants require in house dining as a way to advertise themselves, places that don’t adapt with the changing times risk losing it all if they don’t discover new, innovative ways to get their names out there in an ever more difficult social climate.

This isn't your average restaurant business book. Burns fearlessly dives headfirst into the brutal truth of what's been holding restaurants back from greatness. No more sugar-coating or industry double-speak–it's time for a savage wake-up call!

In "RESTAURANT & BAR MARKETING IV: IF I COULD GIVE IT ZERO STARS, I WOULD," award-winning author Erik Shellenberger delivers his boldest and most cutting-edge insights yet. The fourth book in this Amazon best-selling series challenges conventional wisdom, showing you exactly what works and what's dead in modern restaurant marketing.

Erle Dardick believes the multi-unit restaurant industry is leaving billions of dollars on the table. So he outlined a clear solution for food businesses struggling to stay afloat or to grow during the recession in his new book, Get Catering and Grow Sales! A Strategic Perspective for the Multi-Unit Restaurant Executive. Dardick, the CEO of MonkeyMedia Software, a food industry consulting and software company, has helped his firm's clients grow their revenue by embracing a catering strategy.

Have you ever walked into a fast food restaurant planning to grab something small and left with a super-sized meal, dessert, and maybe even a toy? It’s not just you—and it’s not just coincidence. Fast food chains are experts at subtly influencing your decisions. They use colour, smell, sound, urgency, and emotional cues to encourage you to spend more, eat more, and keep coming back. These techniques aren’t random—they’re carefully crafted psychological strategies designed to benefit the company far more than the consumer.

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When true branding best practices guide the development and growth of a restaurant concept, the risk of failure is reduced. In The Bullhearted Brand, I seek to lay out the foundational elements and details about creating and scaling restaurant brands. I infuse knowledge with real-world experiences throughout the book and leverage stories, fables, and folklore from around the world that use the bull as the hero.