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RESTAURANT
MARKETING
MANUAL
The Complete Guide
To Understanding
Restaurant Marketing
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CONTENT
01 Introduction To Restaurant Marketing................................................................................ 01
3. Print Advertising
1. Building A Website
7. Video Marketing
06 Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................................. 30
01 Introduction to restaurant marketing
INTRODUCTION
Before we dive deep into how restaurant marketing helps
in boosting your business you need to understand what
restaurant marketing is.
CHAPTER 1
IMPORTANCE OF INVESTING IN
RESTAURANT
MARKETING
HELPS BUILD
CREDIBILITY ENGAGING WITH EXISTING
CUSTOMERS ATTRACT
Brand credibility is often
pointed out by marketing CUSTOMERS
experts as one psychological Many restaurant owners tend
factor that could trigger the to give less importance to
their loyal customers and are Restaurant business is a
buying impulse of consumers.
more keen on attracting new people’s business! No matter
ones. This is a practice that how skilled your chefs are or
As a business owner, you must
restau-rateurs shouldn't how top-notch your restau-
try to change your perspective
indulge in. Your repeat cus- rant’s service is, without
into that of the consumers.
tomers are likely to spend customer’s it is all a waste.
People often like to visit res-
more when dining at your Marketing helps in engaging
taurants they know and trust,
restaurant also, they help customers by making them
for example, McDonald's. Your
spread a word about your aware of your restaurant. It is
restaurant’s credibility gives
restaurant. Through market- essential to have people
you an advantage over your
ing, you can engage the interact with your brand as
comp-etitors. The marketing
existing customers and lure this will help you yield more
strategy you deploy helps
them to come dine with you profits and encourage them
build your restaurant’s reputa-
often. to dine at your restaurant.
tion.
CHAPTER 2
CATEGORIES OF
RESTAURANT
MARKETING
It is essential to understand
your customer base before
you start mapping out a
marketing plan. You need to
decide whether you wish to
cater to students, families,
etc. If you know your custom-
CONNECTING TO
ers it would make it easier for
A TYPE OF you to plan accordingly and
MARKETING STRATEGY cater to your desired audi-
ence.
Once you know your cus-
tomer base you have to
choose a marketing strat-
egy that you think will have
FITS IN YOUR BUDGET the greatest positive im-
pact.
No matter how appealing a
marketing strategy might
look, if it does not fit your
budget there is no point in
splurging money on it, as
you might end up spending
more than what is required.
OFFLINE ONLINE
MARKETING MARKETING
CHAPTER 3
OFFLINE
MARKETING
OFFLINE MARKETING
Offline marketing is the oldest known form of marketing. It is still being used by
several restaurant owners in order to promote their business. It uses offline
media channels like a newspaper, magazines, pamphlets, etc. to spread
awareness about their restaurant and is very efficient if you wish to market to
the mass as well as the local customers.
Are you launching a new menu item or opening up a new outlet? Whatever
the situation be you need to stay focused and plan out a good restaurant
marketing strategy.
OFFLINE
MARKETING STRATEGIES
3. Print
Advertising
1. Word -of-
5. Marketing
mouth
through SMS
marketing
1. WORD-OF-MOUTH MARKETING
NEWSPAPER MAGAZINE
NEWSPAPER
You can advertise on a local, regional
or a national newspaper. It all
depends on your budget and the
audience you wish to target. If you
have just started your restaurant
business, we will suggest you place
yo u r a d ve r t i s e m e n t i n a l o c a l
newspaper. This would help attract
Advertising in the newspa- the local crowd to your restaurant as
per is the oldest form of print the chances of them visiting your
marketing and gives you restaurant are more. You can buy
several options to choose different ad space and also, choose
from. from the type of ad (only text, picture
ad, classified, etc.) you wish to
publish.
MAGAZINE
Magazines are content specific and a
good way of reaching out to your
desired customers. You can select a
magazine which primarily talks
about the food and beverage indus-
try. This would help you reach the
Magazines are an excellent
right audience.
source for advertisement,
they are eye-catchy and give
Similarly like newspapers, you get an the freedom to advertise your
option of placing your ad in a maga- restaurant in an exquisite
zine that publishes weekly, monthly manner with pictures and
or quarterly. attractive fonts.
NEWS
Annual growth is expected
6-10%
Annual growth rate can be
for the restaurant industry expected for the restaurant
advertising through industry advertising through
newspaper newspaper
3. PRINT ADVERTISING
71%
transits between a busy route.
4. Advertising on the
Television or Radio
Discount coupons
delivered via SMS have
redemption rates 10
times higher than those
of printed coupons.
Just like email marketing, SMS mar- You can also add links to your social
keting is also a good way of promot- media platforms or website in the
ing your restaurant. It has been text.
around for some time now. SMS
marketing has high visibility and Although, sending out SMS to pro-
opening rate. It is the best way to mote your restaurant might sound
reach out to your customers in real appealing to you but, you have to
time as this kind of advert-isement is have consent from your customers
usually used to commu-nicate time- first. You can take feedbacks from
sensitive offers. You can send out them and ask them to provide their
SMS regarding new offers or deals at number along with the feedback, this
your restaurant. would mean that people are inter-
ested in receiving promotional mes-
People now are more attached to sages also, make sure that you do not
their phones than ever hence, the send out SMS during odd times like,
chances of them interacting with late at night.
the SMS you send out automatically
increases.
CHAPTER 4
ONLINE
MARKETING
After spending a huge amount in the question here is, do they reach
setting up your restaurant, you need out to the “correct” people?
a well-planned restaurant promo-
tion idea to make your restaurant Online Marketing would help you
known amongst your competitors. reach the right audience effectively
and would help you stand out
Newspapers, bill-boards etc do help amongst thousands of other restau-
you reach out to many people but, rants.
If offline marketing
is not your cup of tea
and you are looking
for alternatives, online
marketing is the way
to go!
With all the information available online you will hardly see anyone flipping
through a phone book looking for a restaurant’s number; therefore, promot-
ing your restaurant online makes more sense. People read about a restau-
rant online, check through the reviews, order food online hence, having an
online presence is essential for any restaurant business. Engaging in online
promotions makes your restaurant visible.
Collaborating
With Social Building A
Media Website
Influencers
Paid
Marketing
Video Google
Through
Marketing Ads
E-mail
Marketing
Through Social Media
Restaurant Advertisement
Listing Sites
Organic Google
Listing
ONLINE
MARKETING
MEDIUMS
1. BUILDING A WEBSITE
Even before you start promoting landing page for your advertisement.
your business online, you need an The website should be responsive
interactive website where people and mobile friendly as people find it
can read about you and your ser- easier to look up for information on
vices. Having a site is very important their cell phones.
as your website would act as the
You can use third-party websites like , and increase the overall sales of the
Wix, Wordpress, etc. that allow you to restaurant.
design websites easily or you can hire
a website designer and get the job When advertising through an offline
done. You can also post the menu medium, you should take care of the
online and provide the facility of placement of your ad. Correct place-
ordering food through your website. ment can help boom your business
If the process of ordering food is and make people notice your adver-
made simple for the people, they are tisement, the display or the text that
more likely to place an order then you use for the advertisement should
and there be eye-catchy.
12%
Organic listing
Organic listing are the web listings and showing up here is subjective to
that closely match the user’s search what the customer is looking for.
query. One cannot pay to show These listing only includes web
higher on the organic listing. To pages that Google has crawled and
s h ow u p o n G o o g l e’s o rg a n i c deemed valuable for the search
searches, your website needs to term.
have a good quality score i.e. if the Promoting your business on Google
content is relevant to the search is a great idea as this would help you
query, how original the content on reach out to more customers glob-
the site is, etc. ally as well as locally.
Google itself decides organic listings
72% 86%
Of consumers use
98%
Of searchers
Of Google Ads
marketers plan Google to find a choose a business
to increase their local restaurant that is ranking on
PPC budgets due business the first page of
to high ROI Google
Source: Search Engine Watch Source: WebVisible survey Source: BrightLocal
Google My Business
Another way of showing up on
organic searches is by creating a
Google My Business profile for your
restaurant. Google My Business is a
free service that lets you list your
restaurant business and show them
75%
to people searching for you locally. It
shows the address of your restau-
Of people have said they
rants along with the map. This is a often choose a restaurant to
good way of reaching out to local dine at, based on Google
customers. searches.
Google Ads gives you the freedom These ads work on a PPC model
to decide the budget and the i.e.you are charged only when some-
keywords for which you would like to one clicks on your ad.
show your ads for and also select a It is one of the most effective ways of
goal, like driving traffic to your showing up on Google’s top search
website or increasing sales or leads. results.
0.46%
is the average CTR for AD
display network Google
Ads across all industries. 3.17%
is the average CTR for
search network Google Ads
across all industries.
The first and the most crucial step of helps your customers interact with
email marketing is building your your email.
customer's email database. This can
be done by taking feedbacks from You can use a CRM (central customer
your customers and asking them to management) software to keep your
provide you with their email customers updated through email.
address. An easy way of taking These software help schedule your
feedbacks and building your data- emails and customize them and
base is by using a feedback app that make it customer specific.
would help cut down the manual
work. The email should be attractive, This is a perfect way of reaching out to
have images and appealing con- people who have previously inter-
tent. You can also add a call to action acted with your restaurant and to
button along with your email text if keep them coming back.
required, a call to action button
6. MARKETING THROUGH
RESTAURANT LISTING SITES
Restaurant review sites like Zomato, You can make use of these platforms
Uber Eats etc. let you advertise your not only to list your restaurant but
restaurant business on their website also to help boost your visibility on the
/app. collections in which your restaurant is
already featured.
7. VIDEO
MARKETING
8. COLLABORATING WITH
SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS
Seeking help f rom social media talk about your brand should be
influ-encers is an excellent way of famous and have a charismatic
reaching out to potential customers. personality since the objective of this
You can collaborate with social kind of marketing is to take advan-
media influ-encers and pay them to tage of their ability to influence others
talk about your restaurant. Through decision. Using influ-encers for
this kind of mark-eting, you can promoting your restaurant is very
choose a “spokes-person” to post helpful since people are more likely to
about your restaurant on their social visit a place that a person they love or
media profiles. You need to keep in admire recommends.
mind the person you are selecting to
Source: FICCI
CONCLUSION
If you are serious about running your
restaurant successfully you need to
plan out a good marketing strategy
that would help your restaurant grow.
It is very important for the prolonged
success of the restaurant.
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