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The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources Do you want to have the best year yet in your business in 2020? If so, the time to plan, strategize, and come up with a game plan is this month.  In this episode, we are talking about three things you should consider in preparing for your next year's business calendar. So you...

The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources How to be a leader in the community as a restaurant owner or a restaurant professional? A leader is a person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country. It could be a president or an owner of a restaurant. At the end of the day, you and I are leading our organizations....

The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources Are you thinking about what kind of text messages you should send your customers? Let us help you! Now that you have a database of your customer's phone numbers, for sure, you are wondering what to text them. In this show, you will learn the two main categories of text message that...

Subscribe to not miss a show!  The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources ------------------------------------------------ Your restaurant sales are not growing fast enough.  When you look at the sales data month to month and week to week, you realized that it is somewhat giving you a flat line.  Now, you are...

The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources Working at a restaurant is meaningless!   Let's face it, that's the hard truth. We work long hours preparing the food for our customers. Like we spend days making the dough, we shred cheese, slice vegetables, roast meat, etc.  Whatever you serve in your restaurant, y...

The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources In this episode i share with you my Halloween Marketing checklist! It's one of THE busiest dinner shifts of the year for our restaurant and I am hoping for you too! Download the checklist, implement and make some dough: https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources // WHO:  Matthe...

The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources Do you think Chick-fil-A and McDonald's are known as two of the most family-friendly restaurants for no reason?  Definitely no, there must be a tremendous amount of strategy behind everything they have done in their restaurants in many different aspects to be family-friendly.&...

>> The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources >> FREE GUIDE: Papa John's Text Message Strategy Revealed https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources SMS marketing (aka Text message marketing) is a great way to get instant visibility from your loyal followers and customers.  7 Elements of Papa John’s successful...

The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources Click here to learn more about FobeSoft: https://www.fobesoft.com/#/ If you are a restaurateur and thinking of ways to boost your profits, read on and learn some practical ideas that you can apply for your company immediately and get better results within a few weeks! Making Dough...

The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources In this episode, we are going to answer an inquiry from a fellow restaurant owner all the way from Santiago, Chile, his name is Jean Marc who owns a small Italian restaurant located in a business area in Chile's capital city. Jean Marc's question is: "We work only weekdays from 8 a...

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The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources People quit continually, this is a sad reality in the restaurant industry that we need to battle every day as restaurant owners and managers. We need to have a retention strategy in place to keep our employees in our company, especially the good ones. First, we need to understand w...

The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources How do you handle donations and sponsorship requests for your restaurant? If you've been in the restaurant business for more than a week, you already know that some people are walking in, sending emails or calling to ask for donations or sponsorship, and we can't blame them for tha...

The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources Why do employees quit in the restaurant industry? If you have been in this business for more than a day, you know that this is one of the toughest issues that we deal with and you already knew the problem at hand, it takes a long time to get somebody up to speed. We don't have enou...

The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources Is the majority of people know your restaurant in your city or town? If your answer is yes, that's great! But if not, you might be a victim of the greatest enemy every restaurant owner in this business could ever have, OBSCURITY! In this show, you will learn about a creative market...

The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources Why is it important to conduct a Location Analysis for your restaurant?  Are you planning to start your own restaurant very soon? Or are you looking into opening your next location? What could be the best location for your restaurant? Then better start making your restaurant l...

The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources // Need help with your restaurant marketing strategy? Let’s chat. Email us at: MakingDoughShow@gmail.com  3 ways to provide GREAT Restaurants Customer Service | Restaurant Marketing We all know “good customer service” can make or break our restaurant.  No matter how good...

The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources Minimum 2 Digit Sales Growth:  10% Sales growth MIN 10% sales growth from July 2018 to July 2019  EXAMPLE: July 2018 sales was $100,000, then, July 2019 would be a minimum of $110,000  $10,000 a month / 30 = $333 day increase $333 / $22 avg ticket = 15 more tickets a...

Who uses text message marketing in 2019    Last Show we talked about the best ways to keep in touch with your customers and increase your repeat business     Text Message marketing in 2019 has 97% open rate and is a very cost effective way to stay in touch with your customers.     Today, let’s talk about WHO uses text message marketing in 2019    T...

The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources Last 3 shows we’ve talked about:  The math behind upselling 5 Reasons why your people are not consistently upselling  The EASIEST upsell!   TODAY, we are talking about the biggest and the most common MISTAKE our servers make when it comes to upselling! Why this matte...

The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources 2 Main enemies of our restaurant: // I don’t know you // I forgot about you  - We constantly want to get new customers and to be known!  - That’s not enough!  - We need tactiques to be ON TOP OF THEIR mind.  - The 4 classic ways to do that are:  Email marke...

The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources In the last couple shows we’ve been talking about UPSELLING and making some dough!  We talked about:  The math behind upselling 5 Reasons why your people are not consistently upselling (links in the show notes)  Today, we are talking about the EASIEST upsell!  I...

The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources In today’s show we are talking about 5 Ways to REDUCE your ticket times and exceed your customers expectation.  How a restaurant got a 1 star review because the restaurant employees had ice cream!  Create standards Communicate standards Training according to standard, giv...

The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources Last episode we talked about THE math behind upselling and how $1 per ticket can impact your sales + $52K or - $52K DOUGH MAKING Homework of the day:  Ask your servers which one these 5 reasons is why they EACH don’t consistently upsell.  Talk about it! And talk about HOW...

The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide  and all our FREE Resources at https://www.makingdoughshow.com/resources Episode 35 - how to increase prices without losing customers:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s41n5KsNGk8&t=45s Do your servers fully understand the impact of upselling?   Have THEY done the math? Have YOU done the math to calculate the opportunity at hand if y...