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5 Benefits of Creating An App For Tampa Restaurants

The dining industry has been revolutionized greatly by the emergence of restaurant apps. There are many hidden helpful perks that these apps offer to customers that it’s no surprise Tampa restaurants are beginning to go to the table to create and plan for their own apps. Quick turnover Your restaurant app can offer to take orders from customers even before they arrive at your restaurant. They can order the food directly through the app, which will then send the information to the POS (point of sale) system and therefore, directly to the kitchen. During the peak hours, there would be no need for the customers to wait for your staff to take their orders. More people will be served during the same time period because the wait time has been diminished. The customers can even use the same app to pay for the food, so there’s no need to wait for the check and the cashier to process the payment. Happy customers The faster service means that customers are happier. …

4 Mobile Marketing Tips For Tampa Restaurants

Tampa restaurants used to depend on phonebooks and on the word of mouth to get their business going. Customers come in droves because their friends and families recommended the restaurant to them. They go there without any inkling of what to order, hoping that the dishes will surprise and wow them. But now, running a restaurant is all about perception and first impressions. Even before the customers set foot in the restaurant building, they already have an idea of what to order and they’ve read reviews about the business. Optimize the restaurant’s presence online for mobile It’s one thing to have a working website. It’s another thing to have that website work on your mobile phones and tablets. Most websites these days are optimized for mobile viewing. Check if your restaurant’s website can be viewed on your mobile phone and tablet. Make sure that the lines are all within the screens, the fonts aren’t too large, and the pages are moving in a fluid motion. You have…

5 Cheap Ways To Grow Your Lakeland Restaurants

If you want to grow your Lakeland restaurants, you need money—truckloads of them. Arranging finances through a bank loan is one of the options you can tap, but are you willing to pay an interest fee (and the capital) for the next five years or so? Who knows what will happen by then? How are you going to pay for the loan if there is no assurance that your business will succeed? Breathe easy because there are ways to promote and grow your restaurant business without needing to shell out money from your own pocket or worse, borrow from the banks. Hire a food truck If the rent is getting a little too steep for you, consider just buying or renting a food truck. It empowers businessmen to whip up something they love—whether it is a delicious comfort food or a three-course gourmet meal packed in a convenient way for people to eat while walking on the streets. Food trucks are very flexible because you can drive them to wherever the people are—the parks, the universities, the…

Introducing New Tampa Restaurants Menu To Customers

Once in a while in the world of Tampa restaurants, they would have to introduce new dishes or completely overhaul their menu because it’s outdated and does not run with the times. In today’s digital world run by millennials (a generation so influential that marketers have changed theories and strategies), changing for the better has never been more important. If you own a restaurant, it’s time to take stock of what’s in your menu. Is it Instagram-worthy? Do you get your ingredients from sustainable sources? These are things that are important to this new breed of generation and they should be important to you, too, if you want to keep your business. Use social media Changing menus is fine. It’s how you disseminate the new information that’s going to define your success. Since most people are on social media, you have to use these platforms to announce any changes in your menu and that includes new dishes and the removal of certain dishes from the menu (remember that s…

Dealing With Diet Fads In Lakeland Restaurants

Every generation is different and it’s true what they say that what’s trendy these days does not mean will be trendy in the next couple of years. What kind of diet programs are you following? How sure are you that this program will still work in a couple of years? Lakeland restaurants are in limbo whether to offer dishes specifically crafted for a paleo or a pescatarian diet. The time and effort involved in creating a new menu is no joke but diet programs tend to be short-lived and restaurateurs worry that they may be wasting their resources trying to provide for this generation’s whims. Support from the management A new menu could not be successful if there is no support from the top brass. The restaurant management should be supportive of the plans to change the menu and the dishes being offered to customers according to the diet programs that are trendy these days. Without that support, the shift is doomed from the start. Training of the staff Before the me…

Ideas For Kid-Friendly Tampa Restaurants

If a kid grows up going to your Tampa restaurants every week or so, he will continue to go there even when he’s 10 years old or even up to the time he’s already a teenager. Going to your restaurant will become a part of his routine and his weekly tradition. If you think you are fit to target kids as your audience, then this will open up a whole new portal that could bring profit to your business. Kid-friendly menu and prices Most parents choose restaurants based on the preference of their kids. If their kids like eating in your restaurant, they will choose it over the one they really like for the sake of their kids. This is especially true for picky eaters. Create a menu that kids and parents would love. Kids would love French fries, pasta, and fried chicken nuggets but we all know that parents hate giving their kids what they consider junk food. You have to create a kid-friendly menu that could also incorporate vegetables and fruits into the dishes. Kid-friendly …