i own a pizza cafe sunday is the worst day, very slow, what can i do to improve it desperate. thanks?

Answer 1

I am being serious. Close down for the day; take a day off and relax or catch up on orders or other administrative tasks. Why have the kitchen running all of it's gas and/or electric and pay the staff and other operating expenses if it's not worth it? Sunday's a tough day to attract business. Some people still have their family dinner that day and some people stay glued to the tv for sports, drinking beer and not wanting to venture out. Or maybe you could just open for a Sunday brunch and close down at say 1 p.m.
Best wishes !

Answer 2

Just a few ideas....
Have a few hours on Sunday afternoon geared toward families: bring in a clown to face paint or make balloon animals, decorate with balloons, etc. and advertise it in your local paper, with flyers, etc. A lot of families go to lunch after church and you could offer some sort of discount or maybe a free drink with every purchase. Not knowing your profit margin, it would be hard to give advice on what you could offer realistically, but anything that would be an incentive to choose you over the other local restaurants would be great. Also, when you advertise you might add a coupon. Just be sure your ads are eye-catching and punchy.

Answer 3

Birthday club. This is a classic, proven method in restaurant marketing, I'm amazed more owners don't do it:

1) make some small forms for name, address, email, phone, and birthday.

2) Put out a jar on the counter by the register, with a big sign saying "free pizza party for your birthday, everyone wins" and have them fill out the forms completely in order to join.

3) have somebody type them all into a database/mailing list.

4) It's late September now. Pull out everybody with an October birthday, and either call them personally, or send them a simple letter or postcard (you can handwrite it, they'll love that personal touch), or if you really want to blow them away, ask me how to do birthday cards for them.

5) In the card, Say "happy birthday, you're welcome to come in on any Sunday in October for a free Personal Pizza for yourself, plus we'll have party hats, favors, you'll get a special wrapped birthday present, our staff will sing to you and embarrass you, and if you bring 3 or more paying guests, everyone gets a free serving of cake and ice cream."

Make sure they have to schedule their big day so you don't get swamped and you have enough stuff. You can hit a dollar store for all the supplies you need.

Now the economics should be obvious - you make money on the guests. As a side benefit, you build a really good customer mailing list with email addresses, so you can do email coupons instead of wasteful newspaper or advo stuff.

Do it for a couple of months, make sure you keep close track of all your costs and revenues. You will come out way ahead.

Good luck,
Scott

Answer 4

I would offer football specials or other sport deals. Have sunday a buy 1 at full price get one for 5 bucks or something or have a after church price of say 8 bucks per large from 1pm-4pm or something like that. You wouldn't have to spend 5 billion bucks on tv ads. Just hand out a few flyers and word of mouth gets around.

Answer 5

Leak to the media a story that the image of Christ has appeared in a pizza pie. Bolster this by fabricating one - use toppings to suggest the outline of an oddly Caucasian man in the Middle East, circa 30 AD +/- a few years. You may have to practice before you get something that others agree depicts Christ, but any thing you can do to avoid taking a day of rest makes God happy.

Answer 6

How about putting up a couple tv's to show football/baseball games! Offer some deals on drinks or other items.
Maybe you could rent out the cafe to parties or closed meetings on sundays.

Answer 7

Have Sunday only sales.
Have Bring your church bulletin to lunch specials on Sundays.
Pass out fliers and send out mailers for Sunday specials.
Offer specials to during the week that brings in a receipt from a Sunday visit

Answer 8

If you have the room why don't you have an open mic Sunday. Open to all the neighborhood musicians to come in and get some exposure. People love that and it works! And best of all it's free for you. Musicians love the opportunity to play in public. As a matter of fact you can have the musicians promote it for you. Tell them if they bring in a large enough crowd you will pay them $50.00.

Answer 9

You know...i went to via italia in windsor ontario today....and most of the restaurants were closed!
I usually dont do anything on sunday except read the paper, go to church and go out to eat, so it boggles the mind as to why restaurants arent open on sunday.
I agree with the first suggestion. take the day off, attack monday with a vengenace.

Answer 10

You may want to consider closing on Sundays if it is too bad. You can offer specials and advertise them especially with this being football season