A restaurant is a business establishment which prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money, either paid before the meal, after the meal, or with a running tab. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services. Restaurants vary greatly in appearance and offerings, including a wide variety of the main chef's cuisines and service models. A restaurant is a place where you can eat a meal and pay for it. In restaurants your food is usually served to you at your table by a waiter or waitress. Restaurant marketing can increase visibility to the general public, attract new customers and boost sales revenue. Restaurant marketing can also succeed at retaining existing customers who may be more inclined to return often if they see a special deal or promotion being marketed. There are several ways to successfully market a restaurant, including running advertisements, handing out fliers, conducting special promotions and offering tastings. Restaurants make up one of the biggest businesses in the United States and are one of the largest private-sector employers, according to the National Restaurant Association, making marketing an important part of any business plan. The main purpose of restaurant marketing is to attract new and existing customers. Without customers restaurants would have no business. According to global market research firm Mintel, 10 percent of respondents in a recent survey intend to increase spending at restaurants this year, but over half of respondents said they plan to alter their dining out habits and spend less due to the recession. Increased frugality, though, is another way savvy restaurants can run successful marketing campaigns. For example, offering two-for-one deals, coupons and discounts for senior citizens and children are ways of marketing toward more...
Read moreMy wife and I stayed in the hotel on June 21th. We were on our way home on a 5000km long motorbike-tour. ||Heavily overpriced hotel. We stayed in a lot of places in Spain and France during our tour. We got quite a good overview about value for money for hotelrooms at that time of the year. This was definitely by far the most overpriced location we experienced. We stayed in more expensive places, but they provided value for the money. This hotel wasn't worth the money. The asked 170€ for the most simple double room in low season. We were the only or at least one of very few guests in the hotel at that time. They anyway were very inflexible when it came to price negotiations. The breakfast was ok, but nothing special. WiFi didn't work – and I was told that others coming from the same country I am from also had problems and I should reboot my phone… nonsense, I did it anyway to proof that this doesn't make a difference. At the end we had a very simple room, no Wifi, an average breakfast for 170€ a night.||The room and other facilities of the hotel were clean.||Anyway not worth it and we should...
Read moreMy wife and I stayed in the hotel on June 21th. We were on our way home during a 5000km long motorbike-tour. Heavily overpriced hotel. We stayed in a lot of places in Spain and France during our tour. We got quite a good overview about value for money for hotelrooms at that time of the year. This was definitely by far the most overpriced location we experienced. We stayed in more expensive places, but they provided value for the money. This hotel wasn't worth the money. They asked 170€ for the most simple double room in low season. We were the only or at least one of very few guests in the hotel at that time. They anyway were very inflexible when it came to price negotiations. The breakfast was ok, but nothing special. WiFi didn't work – and I was told that others coming from the same country I am from also had problems and I should reboot my phone… nonsense, I did it anyway to proof that this doesn't make a difference. At the end we had a very simple room, no Wifi, an average breakfast for 170€ a night. The room and other facilities were clean. Anyway, not worth it and we should...
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