8 More Restaurant Promotions (Number 5 is Hot Right Now)
HotOperator has come up with 8 More Restaurant Promotions. Before you run off and try these in your restaurant, take a moment and see if you might need a little professional help.
7 Restaurant Promotions (number 4 is a total must)
Prices are high and discretionary income is low. So even though gas prices are in line, there is a general sense of disparity, especially in an election year. So here are 7 promotions you can use today to get more consumers into your restaurant.
Does Your Restaurant Menu Represent Your Food?
Does Your Restaurant Menu Represent Your Food? I was out with friends for dinner the other night at a fairly upscale restaurant and was offered a really terrible menu. My friends all know that I have spent the last 30 years working with restaurant operators all over...
Prime Restaurant Turnaround: How HotOperator Helped an Oklahoma Operator Save His Restaurant
Prime Restaurant Turnaround: How HotOperator Helped an Oklahoma Operator Save His Restaurant We’ve worked with a restaurant operator in Enid, Oklahoma, for more than a decade. Enid is a city of just over 50,000 people and a mostly industrial community. This operator...
National Restaurant Show Follow Up
National Restaurant Show Follow Up Yup, after more than 10 years I went to the National Restaurant Show in Chicago. For those of you who don’t know, it was from May 18th through the 24th. (Thank God you missed it if you didn’t go). I was there on Monday the 23rd. Got...
Fire Your Agency (If you have one)
Most recently, many independent restaurant operators are turning towards platform based advertising programs to ‘save money’. But what’s really happening is, they are missing some of the most important concepts in advertising. So, should they fire their agency? Or should they be hiring a restaurant focused firm that can represent them properly?
HotOperator: Whatcha Workin’ On?
Got a call from a potential client the other day asking what we’re currently working on. His words: “So, whatcha workin’ on and why should I care?” I thought that’s pretty direct, but it also pointed out that I haven’t posted much about that lately. So here’s a short list of what we’ve been working on at HotOperator.
HotOperator® Introduces (again) The Nudge Restaurant Marketing Process
The Nudge Restaurant Marketing Process In their book ‘Nudge’, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein claim that, every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children, to the meals we eat, to the causes we champion....
Are you getting complaints about your restaurant menu prices?
A lot of restaurant operators I work with are getting complaints about their restaurant menu prices. Here are 7 things you should do to support higher prices in your restaurant. 1 - Understand Value and Price in Foodservice Prices are supported by product or service...
“Sell” it – “Put it in the window” or “We only have two orders left, push it.”
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