am interested in ways of doing a grand opening or opening night and I need some suggestions. What options do I have, I'm opening a Grill/cafe type place in the Bucks county area. (near philadelphia)
2007-09-01 12:55:56 · 3 answers · asked by alina 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Small Business
Don't know your size or if a new business or just new management, but here's a few suggestions. I'm retired military but have owned 3 restaurants in my lifetime. If your already open but just have not had the opening day place fliers on your tables promoting the event. print them on your computer. Place numbers on all your seats in the place were customers will be eating. Have all the numbers written on pieces of paper in a big fish bowl. once an hour opening day draw a number, whoever is sitting in that numbered seat eats free. I went so far as to do this every Monday and it drew people.
introduce opening day a return diners club each month. I had cards printed in three colors. The card business card side had all the diner's info on it. Red was given out a patrons first visit. If they returned another night I gave them 5% off their total bill. I took their green card and gave them a yellow card. If they returned with it on another night I gave them 10% off their total bill. I took their yellow card and gave them a green card. If they returned a 3rd night I gave them 50% off. At three trips I still made a profit from the customer in two ways. 1st the return business in which I still made more then the cost of the meals at reduced price. 2nd, almost 85 to 90% of the green cards returned were from families or businessmen dining with friends. Singles returned but rarely with their cards on them.
2007-09-01 13:31:24 · answer #1 · answered by aswkingfish 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good promotional idea for a grand opening would be to set up a grill in front and have a couple of employees BBQ. Maybe hire a clown/face painter/magician for the kids and a live band to play music that would highlight the theme of your place.Free stuff always attracts people, maybe free drinks or buy 1 get 1 half of on all meals. The important thing is to not over do it as it can get costly. Keep it festive and fun. Also having some sort of raffle can make you some extra cash.
2007-09-01 20:08:34 · answer #2 · answered by afilmbuff 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Advertise in the newspaper. Talk to the chamber of commerce - maybe they can invite their members. Talk to all the tourist info places and invite them. Advertise in those coupon mailings that are done to people's homes.
2007-09-01 20:05:16 · answer #3 · answered by hottotrot1_usa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋