Episode 65 - Peer-to-Peer Digital Presence

Recorded live during a group session at the HospitalityMaine Summit in Rockland, Maine; this episode will help break down barriers between you and the digital marketing efforts your business could and should pursue.

Ready to start tackling a new social platform? Wondering how to grow your business with digital marketing? Are you "consistently inconsistent" with your content efforts? Then this episode is for you. Even though you couldn’t be there with us, I promise you’ll take something away from this talk.

This episode has been edited down from its original length. Thank you to Chef Tim, he recorded the session on his phone. The video below includes the full discussion, minus round-table portions, and closed captioning for any parts that you might not be able to understand. To see a video recording of the session, find Dennis on YouTube at youtube.com/dennispaperfoodservice - or click here [Video of Peer-to-Peer Digital Presence Session at HospitalityMaine Summit 2021 in Rockland, Maine]

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Episode 64 - Press Record Already!

  

It's time to start tackling a huge marketing opportunity, one that can be accomplished completely in-house. Get your smartphone out of your pocket, it’s time to hit record!

In this episode, we’re discussing how restaurants can easily start creating video for powerful, personalized marketing content. Joining the conversation is the gang from Restauranttopia, a fun and informative podcast from Hillcrest Foodservice in Ohio. Get ready to take notes, there’s a wealth of wisdom piled into this pod! 

Like Dennis, Hillcrest is a member of the UniPro Foodservice cooperative. With over 850 member locations, UniPro Foodservice, Inc. is the largest food distribution cooperative in the United States. In fact, the cooperative of UniPro foodservice members is 4 billion dollars larger than the 4 “largest” national distributors COMBINED. Visit uniprofoodervice.com to learn more.

In addition to greater buying power, being a UniPro member provides opportunities to collaborate with like-minded distributors around the country (as we’ve done in this episode) to discuss business-building insights that we can share with our customers and the restaurant industry at large.

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Episode 63 - In House Delivery

 

In this episode we’re talking about delivery – getting food from point A to point B... from your kitchen to your customers. 

In mid 2020, with dining rooms across the country shuttered, the question of “how to get food to customers without a dine-in option” quickly became one of the foodservice industry’s top priorities. Stepping in to address this pandemic-driven problem were platforms like GrubHub, Postmates, UberEats and DoorDash. Otherwise known as third-party delivery platforms. 

The attraction was almost immediate. They had the means to get food from a restaurant to someone who ordered it. All an operator needed to do was sign up. And, sure enough, it was basically that easy. After all, the convenience of existing apps and the infrastructure to deal with delivery was already in place. Closed doors turned into open takeout windows almost overnight. Then, the honeymoon period began to wear off...

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