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How to Increase Restaurant Sales: 3 Proven Ways
Are you trying to find out how to increase restaurant sales? Whether you're a restaurant owner, manager, or a marketing person... there are 3 foundational ways to increase your restaurant's sales that need to be addressed. For each of these points, we'll try to give...
How to Handle Bad Reviews on Facebook
If you run an established local business, you've probably experienced customers (or even people that haven't even visited your local business) leaving an occasional bad review on your business's Facebook Page. It's alarming and kind of hurts inside when you open up...
What Every Restaurant Owner Ought to Know About Raising Prices
Pricing and repricing your menu items for your restaurant can be hard work. Before you go and increase or decrease your prices, make sure you consider these 7 vital points: 1 - Food Costs As a rule of thumb, most restaurants should try and keep their food cost around...
How to Create & Update Contacts in ActiveCampaign Using ManyChat External Requests (and Without Using Zapier!)
Are you trying to figure out how to use external requests in ManyChat to update or create a new contact in ActiveCampaign without using Zapier? You've come to the right place! We decided a client of ours would benefit both from automated Messenger Marketing in...
Restaurant Owner Interview Series: Gil Gonzalez of El Cancun
Restaurant Owners in Rock Hill don't often take the spotlight. They're usually busy in the kitchen, managing employees, and spending time with their customers and families. Zander at Aycock Marketing has set out to find and interview restaurant owners local to York...
How to Use Coupons as a Marketing Weapon in Your Restaurant Marketing Arsenal
Restaurants that use coupons and vouchers experience much higher rates of success. Let's face it... people love a good deal. And when the food is good too, you can guarantee they'll be back. My wife and I always figure out what coupons we have first before going out...
The Ugly Truth About Delivery Services Like DoorDash, GrubHub, and Uber Eats Every Restaurant Owner Should Know
Chances are you've either contacted (or have been contacted by) DoorDash, GrubHub, or Uber Eats if you own a restaurant. They're great third-party restaurant delivery services that allow you to easily get food delivered to your customers so they never have to leave...
Why Your Bar Crowd is Dead and How to Finally Get a Line Out the Door in Only 7 Days
After playing in a professional bar band for 4 years, I learned some things... you know... learned things past how to take shots of fireball, how to get better tips performing, and how to make the ladies like you. I learned that in order to book a gig at a new...
How You Can Use Your Phone to Get Pro-Level Photos of Your Restaurant’s Food
As you know, smartphones these days have fantastic cameras. You can do so much with the phone you carry in your pocket. You can even sometimes avoid paying an expensive restaurant photographer if you know how to take great photos using your phone. While it still takes...