Marketing

Restaurant marketing ideas and trends

Marketing

Social media watch: Much ado about a tweeting chicken

An Australian QSR has come up with a new way to generate buzz on social media—employ an animal.

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3 ideas we stumbled upon on a road trip to Austin

Here’s what we discovered averaging four meals a day on a 19-hour journey to Austin, Texas.

Operators are betting that NCAA basketball fans will eat up these special deals.

See what restaurants are using as consumer bait.

Difficult times have brought extraordinary measures, including these off-the-wall attention hooks.

The coffee chain is also moving the promo’s focus away from Frappuccinos to a wider range of afternoon deals.

The concepts winning with their marketing efforts aren’t necessarily grabbing the full audience. Here’s a look at the chains resonating with different genders as well as those scoring with both.

You’d think that celebrity chefs would make their restaurants the stars of social media. But in our rankings of independent restaurants, the most avid users are hardly household names. Big name chefs, it seems, prefer to tweet and post under their own names, not their restaurants’ or company’s.

A look around at the competitions seems to show just as many social media successes (Starbucks) as stumbles (McDonald’s). Where should you focus your efforts in the coming year? We asked a few social media superstars for their advice.

Whataburger has a slam dunk with a Twitter post featuring an NBA star.

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