Ways To Boost Your Restaurant Sales Without Offering Discounts

Michael Smith
Aug 9, 2017 · 3 min read

Online food ordering system has helped many restaurants, cafes, and lounges etc. to improve their sales. However, one can’t just depend on an online food ordering tool for business growth. You must consider some creative ideas that can help you in increase your sales without offering discounts. Here are some ways to boost your restaurant sales.

1) Live Music —

Entertainment not only draws attention of more people in, it also make people to stay back for a longer period of time, order more such as having another cup of wine, maybe some dessert, coffee etc…

2) Freebie Night —

Everybody loves freebies. In place of offering discounts, you can offer freebies to your customers on selected days of the week. For example: “Every Wednesday, our 50th diner gets a free coffee mug, a movie ticket, or a free T-Shirt etc.”

3) Make It Convenient —

Working people don’t often get much time to spend with their friends and families on weekdays. You can do something special for those customers by offering “at your convenience” option to them. You can extend your regular hours or make some arrangements for them on weekends, holidays, or on other occasions.

4) Customer Reviews —

Encourage your customers to share reviews about your restaurant. Gather their reviews and feedbacks and share them on your site to let your other customers to know about your services.

5) Shipping —

Offering free delivery for online food orders will definitely improve your restaurant sales. However, you can apply some constraints such as the minimum order amount should be $15 to be eligible for free delivery.

6) Food Packaging —

Make sure not to compromise the quality of food packaging. Choose custom designed food packaging boxes based on your restaurant’s theme and season. Don’t forget to add your restaurant address, phone and online ordering website on the side of the boxes. An attractive food packaging will definitely attract more customers to your restaurant.

Remember that integrating just a restaurant ordering system to your website is not enough. You have to keep the above mentioned factors in your mind as well to improve your sales. If you have any more queries regarding online ordering systems, share them with us in the comments below!

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