Wednesday, October 26, 2011

15 Halloween ideas for every restaurant to increase their profit

 Halloween is not only a fun night for people of all ages to celebrate but can be an excellent time for restaurants to market their business and products. Don't miss out on this huge opportunity this year instead take advantage of this Halloween ideas that can help any restaurant increase their profit.
1. Give out candy with your restaurant logo.
2. Create Halloween inspired food specials.
3. Create Halloween inspired drink specials.
4. Offer spooky discounts on all of your restaurant gift cards and a special incentives like a free appetizer or a dessert if your customers use their gift certificates by Halloween night.
5. Hold a competition for the best carved pumpkin with your company logo and give out free coupons or discounts.
6. Hold a contest for the scariest twitter slogan for your restaurant which you can feature for the whole month of October. To the winner, you can give free gift certificate to your restaurant or free dinner for two.
7. Organize best Halloween costume contest for all of your customers and give out free drinks or a free appetizer to the winners.
8. Offer special Halloween versions of your merchandise.
9. Make Halloween coupons valid only for Halloween eve and Halloween day.
10. Send Happy Halloween emails and/or cards to your customers and include a 10% discount, free Halloween inspired appetizer, or a dessert.
11. Organize a Halloween cooking class for kids and their parents in your community where they can make popcorn balls, candy apples, or any other Halloween theme desserts.
12. You can use the names in your already existing customer database and hold a raffle. To the selected winners, you can send "Thank you" treat bags filled with candy treats, certificates for dinner, or discounts for your restaurant merchandise.
13. Run a week long trick or treat event in which you can offer special deals each day for parents and their kids alike. On Halloween night you can stay open late and give out candy to the kids and restaurant's coupons to their parents.
14. Hold an online contest at your website by hosting trivia Halloween legends contest.
15. And last but not least: have your customers submit their favorite ghost stories to your restaurant Facebook fan page, and then allow the rest of your customers to vote for the scariest one. You can give out gift certificates to the winners.

1 comment :

  1. Customers are smart. They might go to a restaurant once or twice attracted by a clever marketing campaign, but everything will be wasted if their experience is less than stelar.

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