Awesome Restaurant Marketing Ideas!

Who makes a difference?  A restaurant owner can.  Specifically Tom Douglas "Super Chef" Restaurateur.  The video will tell the story about how a local business owner connects to his community.

Free restaurant marketing is my preference. However, if you understand the importance of investing in a restaurant marketing strategy, here are a few tips on where to look for funds.  The goal is to ear-mark dollars which can then be invested and re-cycled as each marketing campaign pays off.  If your restaurant has a sales issue and is short cash then investing in anything, especially marketing, seems an impossibility.

What daily & weekly non-negotiable tasks are included on a restaurant checklist? 

Its never too late to create a new restaurant marketing calendar. Today can be that day you tell your team "We are no longer going to buy advertising based on what salespeople have to offer and will instead become pro-active."

A Christmas restaurant marketing idea never came to you? You can use this idea next year of if you are scrambling at the last minute, this may be perfect.

I received a personal invite from a friend about this fundraiser to give support to families of fallen officers from Lakewood, WA. 

Ever had a restaurant marketing idea in the middle of the night only to have it drift off as you snooze? Here is an idea for your marketing campaign and a free online tool to assist you.

'Tis the season to think about the holiday gift card options.  Will you make your own gift certificates or will you hire a gift card services company?  John Harris from Lynch + Harris offers certificate and gift card ideas and options. 

The Gift - Savvy Merchant

A Must for Independent Retailers, Restaurateurs & Service Establishments

By John S. Harris

We did a a little restaurant marketing research on Halloween.  Instead of just handing out candy, we thought it might be interesting to learn what kids love.

Here is what we put on a tray for their selection:

• Pencils (skeleton and other odd shapes)
• Oatmeal treats (for healthy reasons of course)
• Small toys / trinkets (Halloween in nature)

Tough to believe a little restaurant business in the middle of nowhere could change the world... but it did.  Two million people a year visit the little town of Leavenworth, WA each year.  No, there is no sandy ocean beaches, there is not one of the wonders of the world.   In Eastern Washington, Leavenworth has a population of 2,206, and is located in Washington's Chelan county, about 71.8 miles from Bellevue and 77.9 miles from Seattle.  Do the numbers add up?  Don't seem to...Does not seem possible. 

What is your belief about the barriers to effective restaurant marketing? If the belief is that business is poor because times are "bad", there are always bad times, During the worst of times, restaurant companies born and achieve great success.

My restaurant marketing ideas can get a little crazy.  There was a quote I heard long ago: