Marketing for restaurants

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How Your Restaurant Can Reach Out to the Local Community

Establishing a relationship with the community around you is a key component in building a loyal following for your restaurant. Let’s have a look at some ways to connect.

Power Up Your Bookings Through Email Marketing

Looking to explore a new channel of marketing? It might be time to try promoting your restaurant through email marketing. Re-connect with old customers, and drum up new business too.

Loyalty: Inspiring Restaurant Employees Spells Success

Have you ever been to a restaurant where you were struck by the passion and the loyalty the employees showed towards the brand? Loyalty among its ranks may be one of a restaurant’s most important assets. Here’s why.

Going Gluten Free

A need for greater choice from diners can fuel upward trends and create opportunities for your business. These four gluten free restaurants show how it's done.

Catch More Customers With Pokemon Go

Pokemon Go has taken the world by storm. It has surpassed anyone's wildest expectations. What you might not have realised as a restaurant owner, is that this wonderful game has opened the doors to new opportunities.

Showcase Your Restaurant’s Story with Facebook Canvas

The Facebook canvas is a rich media promotional feature new for 2016, here's what you need to know and how to get started.

How to Build a Positive Reputation for your Restaurant

How your restaurant is viewed in the community can greatly impact your success. Here a few easy strategies to reach out and connect in a positive way.

How In-Restaurant Events Conquer New Customers

In-restaurant events can grow your business and deliver new diners. So what are they and how does it work? We take a look at some brilliant in-restaurant experiences.

Can You Use UGC For Your Restaurant’s Marketing?

User generated content, or UGC, works on many levels and is pretty much vital to your business today. So, what is UGC, does it work for restaurants, and how can you make the most of it?

3 Big Ideas for Marketing your Restaurant on Facebook

Looking for some new ways to expand your reach and grow your restaurant brand on Facebook? Here are some fresh ideas.

How to Start a Food Truck

With the market for mobile food businesses growing by leaps and bounds is now the right time to launch a food truck venture?

5 Crazy Restaurants in the UK

Weird settings, strange locations, and bizarre entertainment - restaurants in the UK are getting crazier by the week and we're loving it! Here's our pick of 5 crazy restaurants to try now.

How to Re-Engineer Your Restaurant Menu to Push More to the Bottom Line

Want to get better results from your menu? By following this easy process you can increase your menu’s performance and see significant gains in profitability.

Four Restaurant Reviewers – How Bloggers Could Help Promote Your Restaurant

Food, lifestyle and travel bloggers seem to be the new celebrities of the online world. Over the last five year's they have gained immense popularity, providing brands with a new opportunity for outreach.

How Pop-ups and Supper Clubs can grow your Business

Pop-up restaurants and supper clubs are more than just a gimmick, they are creative and successful ways to expand your business and diversify.

Email marketing: still an effective tool for growing your restaurant brand

Email marketing is alive and well and remains one of the most effective and cost efficient ways for restaurant owners to drive traffic, increase sales and grow their brand.

The Euro at your restaurant

Share pictures/videos of your football or anti-football marketing stints and get a mention on RestoConnection!

Go mobile: why it’s critical to have a mobile website for your restaurant

The mobile movement is here and it's here to stay. With the majority of website visits coming from mobile devices, creating a mobile-friendly website isn't just a nice option for restaurants anymore.

Could Geocaching Benefit My Restaurant?

Geocaching is a popular outdoor activity, but how exactly does it work and how could it be used to benefit restaurants?

The Pizza Express Success

Pizza Express is now the highest rated Italian concept restaurant in the UK. We take a look at why this is and how they've achieved it.

The Fast Casual Restaurant

What is the fast casual restaurant and why do we love it so much? We take a closer look at what makes this concept so popular.

Video Marketing for Restaurants – Where is Best to Publish Content?

Over 50% of mobile traffic is from online video. That figure is huge when you consider just how many people use their mobile to access the web.

The Latest London Buzz Restaurants

Dine in the dark, on a tube train, or totally naked! We look at the latest London restaurants creating a buzz.

The Single Product Concept

With single product concept restaurants soaring in popularity, we look at what makes them successful and why we love them.

Can you Crowdfund your Restaurant?

Is crowdfunding the best option for building or launching your restaurant? We look a little deeper at how and why, including those who've done it successfully.

4 inspiring fast food concepts

Pieology, Velvet Taco, The Boiling Crab and Amsterdam Falafel Shop: 4 inspiring fast food concepts...

Keeping your Restaurant Connected in a Rural Landscape

We found out how Overwater Hall keeps its restaurant connected in its remote location, and reaches out to new diners, when we interviewed co-owner Angela Hyde.

How to Master Instagram for Your Restaurant?

Instagram, a unique photo-sharing app that makes it easy to showcase your restaurant to potential customers... a platorm they spend over 20 minutes a day on!

The Power of Visual Content on Social Media

What was the last thing you remember seeing on social media? The chances are it was some form of visual content that you recall, let’s look at why this is such a powerful tool...

The Evolution of Street Food

We take a look at the evolution of street food in the UK and how vendors are using social media to reach new customers and create a food based buzz.