Restaurant Marketing and Promotion
That Works
Three Ways To Increase a Restaurant's
Revenue
- Raise prices
- Increase customer quantity (gain
new customers through advertising and increase repeat purchases
while retaining existing customers)
- Increase the average ticket
with add-on selling and upselling (selling, marketing and
product merchandising)
Regular and Effective Advertising
Regular advertising and promotion
is expensive and absolutely necessary to build a restaurant's
business. Point of Success provides reports that analyze every promotional
activity:
- Coupon redemptions
- New customers generated by a
promotion

- Lifetime value of customers
by promotional activity

- Analysis of orders (average
order size, total orders) by promotional activity
Continuing Effective Advertising
and Promotion
With Point of Success it's easy to
decide which promotional activities, offers or publications generate
the most financial benefit. Informative reports support every marketing
spending decision with facts rather than guesses.

Create a list of
currently available coupons, discounts and promotions. Track customer
response, redemption details and effectiveness of every promotion.
It's Easier to Keep a Customer than
Get a New Customer
It is a commonly held belief that
a business will spend five times more to get a new customer than
it needs to spend to get comparable revenue from an existing customer.
Point of Success gives a restaurant the information it needs to
continually communicate with existing customers, encouraging them
to order more and order more frequently
.
Let me make this clear: people
who have ordered from you before are five times more likely to order
again than a non-customer.
Kamron Karington, Restaurant
Marketing Consultant
Birthday Club

Store the birth month and day on a
customer account for birthday marketing offers.
Lifetime Value
The value of a new customer is important,
but the lifetime value of an existing customer is even more important.
Many restaurants expend a great deal of time and money to get new
customers to the exclusion of improving relationships with customers
they already have.
If a restaurant spends $500 to get
30 new customers who each place a $15 order, the total new
revenue will almost meet
the cost of the advertising. The problem is that if 25% of these
new customers order again, these new customers are profitable
only if each retained new customer orders three or more
times. Balancing new customer
marketing activities with
offers
directed to existing customers
is vital to a restaurant's success. Restaurants using Point of Success
software know their customers and their buying habits, giving them
the power to emphasize existing customers in their business-building
activities.
Consistent, Reliable Source of Orders
Every restaurant manager recognizes
their customers who order consistently. They know that the majority
of their orders every day are placed by existing customers. Existing
customers are the most consistent, reliable source of regular business.
Make Good Customers Great Customers
Point of Success pinpoints good customers
so you can communicate with them more frequently and more effectively!
Identify customers by their longevity, their order frequency, their
lifetime value and more. A good customer is worth the extra care
it takes to keep them coming back again and again
.

Entering discounts
and tracking promotions is easier with Point of Success' coupon
and discount tracking features. Each coupon or discount is created
with valid days, dates and times, how to calculate the discount,
and the items to which the discount applies.
Add-On Order Promotions
Point of Success makes it easy for
a restaurant to encourage add-on of extra items with every order.
When
offering incentives to servers or order taking staff, sales
achievements can be tracked for add-on items.
Customer Retention and Satisfaction
Restaurant managers are sometimes
unaware that customer relationships are critical to a successful
restaurant. The loss of a dissatisfied customer is a huge cost.
- On average, 50% of dissatisfied
customers will complain to a front-line employee
- Only 1% to 5% of dissatisfied
customers will escalate their complaint to a manager
- 91% of dissatisfied customers
will not buy again from a company that displeased them
- Complaining customers whose
complaints are satisfied are significantly more loyal than customers
who have never been dissatisfied
When a customer disappears the most
controllable
cause is dissatisfaction. Contacting an inactive customer repeatedly
and with increasingly attractive offers to become active again is
the most effective marketing expenditure a restaurant can make.
When Active Customers Become Inactive
Point of Success offers reports detailing
which previously active customers have not ordered in a specific
period of time
. This information permits contacting of customers
with coupons and other enticements to order again. When active customers
stay inactive even though they have been offered generous incentives,
it's time for a manager to contact the customer personally.
Early Warning of Food Quality or
Staff Problems
Inactive customer follow-up gives
a manager first-hand experience with customer complaints. An informed
manager can easily judge the quality of their restaurant's
food and service, then make changes to keep customers happy. Generous
problem-solving attention from a manager is often all that's needed
to transform a dissatisfied customer into a raving fan.
Managers Stay Involved
Keeping managers informed and involved
is the best way to improve a restaurant's success. Busy managers
spending time operating the restaurant
are far less effective than managers who are in
touch with their customers!
Indicates features available only in Point of Success Premium. See
all the differences between Point of Success Standard and
Point of Success Premium here.
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