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Customer Toolbox
Our team of industry experts has developed a series of tools to help with all aspects of running a successful business. Corporate offices, where systems are researched and developed, provide national chain restaurants with a distinct advantage over local independently run restaurants. These tools help to level that playing field by providing you eith time tested effective suggestions, along with the most up to date information on industry trends.
These tools cover a wide range of topics, including marketing to new customers, addressing health dining trends, the importance of food safety and many many more. The tools are written in a concise and easy to follow format that will enable you to quickly address and fine tune specific areas of your business.
Business Tools
Implementing a Direct Mail Campaign:
Essetial Components for a successful Direct Mail Campaign
E-Mail Marketing to Your Customer:
E-mail marketing is an effective way to bring customers back, attract new customers and develop stronger relationships with existing customers.
Marketing to New Customers:
Attracting new customers is an important component of a successsful long term marketing plan.
Pouring on the Profit with Beverage:
The profit that beverages bring in for your business will keep your accountant very happy!
Increasing Sales with Take-Out:
Restaurateurs are driven to serve food conveniently to consumers no matter where they are.
Increasing Repeat Business:
While it is equally important to go after new customers, it is much easier and less expensive to build loyalty and gain return customers.
Addressing Healthy Dining Trends:
Consumer interest in health and nutrition is a long-term trend, not a fad.
Menu Design:
Your menu is your number one marketing tool. It is the one printed piece that everyone in your establishment is certain to read.
Developing a Recipe Manual
Key Components To Consider When Developing a Recipe Manual
Pricing Your Menu:
During challenging economic times offering a “Value Perception” is likely to help generate interest and sales dollars
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Sysco Articles
Translating Trends to Sales
With the economy still slowly growing, recent research shows that most consumers are not planning to make any changes in their use of foodservice.
Wooing Kids and Families
A key part of operating any restaurant is an understanding of the target clientele.
Building Your Restaurant's Digital Identity
As the reigning King of Social Networking, Facebook is the one you can’t ignore.
Food Price Outlook May 2011
Positive same store-sales and traffic levels in April helped keep the National Restaurant Association’s index of foodservice activity in expansion territory for the fifth consecutive month.
Food Price Outlook Feb 2011
USDA Projections for 2011/2012 Imply Extremely Tight Supply and Demand for Next 18 Months.
Catering to Changing Lifestyles
The takeout share of the foodservice dollar has been growing for years. Now, having mastered takeout, restaurants are increasingly turning their attention to large-order catering for both business and social events.
The Beverage Innovation Boom
There was a time when beverages were the most boring section of a restaurant menu: coffee, tea, soft drinks. What you got at one restaurant was almost exactly what you got at another. Those days are over.
Barbecue: The Great American Flavor
When consumers crave hearty, flavorful comfort food at this time of year, it’s probably picnic-friendly, traditional American heritage fare—above all, barbecue.
Signature Items - Conveying Your Essence
In today’s environment of too many restaurants competing for too few customers, just offering good food isn’t enough.
The Challenge of Sustainability
If our practices are sustainable, we can go on doing them the same way indefinitely.
Going Green
Why Operators Should Go Green and Practical Steps for Doing It
Succeeding in a Tough Economy
Tips for delighting repeat customers and cultivating new business
Menu Opportunities
Best Practices to Drive Growth Through Menu Mix Enhancement and Promotion
Effective Local Marketing:
Tips to Help the Smaller Players Compete in the Big Leagues
Understanding the New Economy
Lessons from the past and tips from the present to succeed in a soft economy
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