Justsyd
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Run a coupon in the local newspapers. |
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Dave
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Flyers and coupons are good. Don't put anything in the mail. It just makes people mad. |
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Andrew
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Advertisement. Coupons and discount offers don't hurt either. |
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Unique
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Give out free samples.
Have a reporter write about your restaurant and publish it in a well known paper or magazine. |
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flowerspirit2000
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DELIVER FLYERS....MAKE EM FUNNY |
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dutch_luvs69
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THE BEST WAY IS WORD OF MOUTH PERIOD. SERVEQUALITY FOOD , LOTS OF IT , IN A CLEAN RESTAURANT , AND GREAT SERVICE . |
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Yo
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Newspaper ad with coupon. |
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Brian Da Dog
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Have a catch. Be the home of something. This is the only place you can go for this. Or be the originator of something. Others may have it but you started it, so credit has to be laid back to you. I know easier said the done, but hey.
(Ie Lamberts -- home of the throwed roll) |
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Nea
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WRITE INTO FOOD NETWORK AND TELL THEM IT IS THE BEST PLACE FOR ____________ FOOD AND TELL THEM IT SHOULD BE ON FOOD FINDS OR THE BEST OF. |
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lees_sword
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advertisements. |
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Buy one entree, get the second free. Gets me every time. |
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gibikote
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in one word - advertise :-)
on the net, Yellow Pages, Local newspaper, at the mall, etc.
and specifically for the restaurant business - keep the stuff tasty :-)
best wishes! |
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joencrystal
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You can associate yourself with a local charity cause. That's what a local restaurant did when they first opened. They held benifit brunches for the local Boys and Girls Club on a regular basis and gained a lot of attention quickly because of it.
Hope that gives you some ideas! Good Luck :) |
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Calvin the Bold
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Sending out lots of flyers, it works! |
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Scott C
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trade advertising with a local (non-competitor) business. You advertise their business if they'll advertise yours. |
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wrepete1951
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Offer free dessert with any entree ----- for a limited time, of course. |
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Cambion Chadeauwaulker
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Direct marketing. Send out flyers as the first person said. Also generate some coupons and go to apartments near-by and speak to the manager about having them put your coupons into their move-in packets. |
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partyatthepalms09
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try putting ads in newspapers, on tv, and flyers |
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Hillary
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Flyers, cupons, free samples, promote with free appitizers or drinks 50% off, mail out menus, have an ad run in the loal newspapers, have a local radio station promote ur resturant, etc ... |
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Poopie Johnson
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1. have an open house/free tasting for the public - offer samples from your menu paired with various wines.
2. sponsor a free lunch or dinner for neighboring businesses or professional groups
3. advertise in your local media outlets and offer special deals/discounts.
Good luck! |
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jojo
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I would say advertise your butt off and have coupons printed in the paper for say 2 for 1 deals or free entrees or free appetizers |
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lou
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1. mail out coupons
2. newspaper advertisement
3. radio advertisement
4. t.v. advertisement
5. billboard advertisement
6. in store bulletin or chalk board specials
7. in store table advertisements
8. menu mail outs to residential area's
9. menu mail outs to commercial customers
10. store discount plans for large commercial companies
11. special menu mail outs with coupons to commercial customer's
12. menu mail outs with coupons to residential customers |
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Distribute paper menus and flyers (you can hire kids to bring them to people's doors). If your budget allows, the newspapers, the Yellow Pages, an online ad...
Good luck! |
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she luvs u
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you obviously bought the business in a good traffic area so I would make sure the smell reaches the passers by,sense of smell is the keenest we have and it stays in the memory especially garlic and onions sauteed.etc. etc. "break a leg" |
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LONG-JOHN
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Offer deals such as "6 for 5" for your usual 'specials"=COMPLETE MEAL DEALS---offer free non-alko beverage with meals.---have a one per month "customer-appreciation-day" with a normally ,and usual offering provided at half cost----you'll know what the people like by sales patterns established. ---so,so, many ways---just use both your imagination---AND, BE SURE TO REMEMBER WHAT,and HOW, you,YOURSELF LIKED IT AS A CUSTOMER OF/FOR OTHERS !!!! |
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Dahs
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Press Release!
Try to get on your local TV Morning News! Offer to do a demo of your specialty dishes and provide a taste for the morning crew, free of charge! |
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Barry M
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Have a promotion, where dinners can fill out a ballot everytime they eat there and after 2 months you draw for a TV or something. |
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Maddog Salamander
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Get a Food Network host to come by on a road trip. Almost every celebrity on the show is traveling around the nation...snare one of them. |
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john_hall_44
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call it " Hooters" |
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K9
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Hand out flyers to your customers; at lunch have a bowl that customers can toss their business card into for a weekly drawing (free or discounted meal); stand on the sidewalk and give small samples of your best entre'; read sll those good tidbits above this answer! |
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anthony b
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