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The summer season often brings groups of young customers to diners, smoothie shops, and other local restaurants. These types of customers are looking to get out of their house and go to a fun environment where they can eat and spend time with their friends – and get away from the summer heat. Restaurants are making the most of the summer season by incorporating loyalty promotions and creative events that attract hungry customers with great deals, great food, and family-friendly fun.
By providing activities that support a bit of friendly competition, restaurants entice young customers to a fun, air-conditioned environment where they can hang out and order food and drinks while challenging friends to foosball, table tennis, and board game face-offs. These types of activities attract groups of customers that invite family and friends to join them, encouraging repeat visits. Through incremental visits and purchases, restaurant increase their exposure and value in their community as they grow a reputation for quality food and family-friendly atmospheres. Combined with loyalty and rewards campaigns that encourage future purchases, restaurants help boost their summer revenue and help ensure future visits.
The best part is, low-cost and even free supplies for kid-friendly games and engagements are often found at community garage sales or online community resources such as Craig’s List, Nextdoor, and Facebook Marketplace.* Many restaurants that allocate space for activities often find that customers bring in their own games and attractions for entertainment purposes.
By providing activities that support a bit of friendly competition, restaurants entice young customers to a fun, air-conditioned environment where they can hang out and order food and drinks while challenging friends to foosball, table tennis, and board game face-offs. These types of activities attract groups of customers that invite family and friends to join them, encouraging repeat visits. Through incremental visits and purchases, restaurant increase their exposure and value in their community as they grow a reputation for quality food and family-friendly atmospheres. Combined with loyalty and rewards campaigns that encourage future purchases, restaurants help boost their summer revenue and help ensure future visits.
The best part is, low-cost and even free supplies for kid-friendly games and engagements are often found at community garage sales or online community resources such as Craig’s List, Nextdoor, and Facebook Marketplace.* Many restaurants that allocate space for activities often find that customers bring in their own games and attractions for entertainment purposes.
These types of activities attract groups of customers that invite family and friends to join them, encouraging repeat visits
Restaurants can also host bracket-based competitions and tournaments for all local customers to participate in sports such as ping pong, darts, corn hole over-the-door basketball, billiards/pool, video games, chess, and more. Paired with native loyalty programs, customers are encouraged to frequent the business and invite friends that can turn into new loyal customers. One example is through weekly “gametime happy hours,” by providing loyalty points and rewards to customers who place specific purchases or refer new customers to the business.
With QR code-based digital menus, online ordering, and complex modifiers for pizza, burritos, drinks, sandwiches, and more, Aldelo Express Cloud POS and Masa+ allows customers to select from an unlimited number of regular and premium modifiers, complete with customized item pricing to suit a restaurant’s business needs.
QR code-enabled Masa+ digital menus, restaurants are able to promote their digital ordering solutions on their website, social media, signage, or table tent cards, enabling customers to easily scan, order, and pay to streamline operations in busy environments. When used with Aldelo Express Cloud POS, Masa+ can increase a restaurant’s sales by 8.3%.
The high-traffic summer market is an ideal time for attracting new and existing customers to the restaurant and its digital services
The high-traffic summer market is an ideal time for attracting new and existing customers to the restaurant and its digital services. Once customers experience the ease of ordering and payments via credit card, loyalty, rewards, coupon, and gift card promotions, they will continue using the business’ remote online ordering solutions. Imagine the increased customer satisfaction with an enhanced service level for placing and picking up orders without calling or waiting in line at the restaurant.
Such events can also be used to promote in-house loyalty and gift card campaigns that help drive customer traffic throughout the year.
Learn more about Aldelo Express by contacting an Aldelo representative today at [email protected] or 877-639-8767
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