You can promote your restaurant in numerous. Many restaurant owners focus heavily on getting customers in the door, but once they get there, you need them to order, eat, and return at a future date. One method of encouraging repeat business at your restaurant is by investing in promotional items so customers get more familiar with your brand. As this happens, your restaurant becomes more memorable and thus gains more repeat business—and with any luck, more word-of-mouth recommendations. Check out the best promotional items for restaurants to invest in.
Games
Setting out fun games branded with your logo or restaurant name at tables or in the waiting area can help foster a fun and energetic environment. Your customers will remember the fun time they had playing a game with your name on it instead of the wait time for a table or the time it took to get the food out to them.
Specials board
Including restaurant or chef daily specials on a branded chalkboard can create positive impressions with customers. It can elevate their dining experience by allowing them to reread and be well informed on specials and promotions of the day, and it shows your restaurant name clearly so they remember where they got the delicious pasta special last Monday night and can plan to return on subsequent Mondays.
Bottle openers
Bottle openers branded with your company name on them are great additions to your wait staff’s aprons. They can take these out and show them off every time a customer orders a bottle with a cap. These are also exciting giveaway items for customers. Hosting a small giveaway with items such as bottle openers and a branded glass can be a fun way to get customers engaged with your brand.
Matchbooks
Many restaurants choose to invest in custom matches to give to their customers. Much more interesting that a standard business card, a matchbook with your restaurant logo and name on it will remind people of the great food and experience they enjoyed at your business. Matchbooks are an often appreciated item because people get a lot of use out of them; this is positive for you because they look at the logo every time they use it. These are great promotional products because of the amount of impressions they can make compared to other promotional options.