If you want people to come to your fine dining restaurant (which you probably do), you have to promote your business in a place where people spend their time. As of January 2022, more than 4.62 billion active social media users. That’s over half of the Earth’s population!
There’s no doubt that people spend time online. So, if you want to extend your marketing reach, here are a few tips to promote your fine dining restaurant on social media.
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Post stunning pictures of your delicious food
Social media marketing runs on high-quality images. There are plenty of professional photographers out there posting stunning pictures of everything you can imagine. If you post boring smartphone photos of your food, there’s no way you’ll stand out among the pack.
If you really want to grab people’s attention, you need to post pictures that do your food justice. There’s nothing more tempting than a mouth-watering picture of delicious food. Post lots of professional-level photos to really show potential customers what they’re missing by not coming to your restaurant. Don’t forget the plate presentation!
Show what’s behind the scenes
These days, people love to see how their food is made. It helps them connect with the food, the staff, and the restaurant’s atmosphere. Remember, you’re selling your restaurant as much as you are your food.
Take plenty of photos and videos behind the scenes. Show potential customers what makes your restaurant tick and why it’s so special.
Here are some helpful social media ideas to show the inner workings of your fine dining restaurant:
- How to make a signature dish
- Your employees in action
- Shots of your high-quality ingredients
Before you take any behind-the-scenes footage, make sure your kitchen is sparkling clean. You definitely don’t want to showcase a dirty kitchen or unprofessional staff.
Define your brand’s voice
Your marketing strategy is more than just individual posts. Everything you put on social media should be part of a cohesive marketing strategy to promote your business, and a key part of building a cohesive strategy is to create a distinct brand voice and keep it consistent throughout all your marketing efforts.
You can see this idea in action all over the internet. Subway is always going on about eating healthy and fresh, and Chick-fil-a likes to talk about how they help people and get to know their customers. While these may not be “fine dining” establishments, the idea remains the same.
Creating a definitive brand voice helps customers identify with your business. They don’t even need to see your marketing material to know what your business stands for!
Many fine dining restaurants focus on ideas like freshness of ingredients, eating healthy, incredible presentation, or even luxury status. Think about what you want your restaurant to be best known for, and put a taste of it into every social media post you make.
Talk to your followers
It’s called “social” media for a reason. You’re supposed to be social!
Many brands just post things to their social media accounts and call it a day. If you really want to draw people into your restaurant, you should engage with them. That means reply to comments and direct messages (DMs) across all your platforms—especially if they’re negative.
Addressing negative comments not only helps alleviate the situation with the unsatisfied customer, but it also shows everyone else that you take your customer concerns seriously. You care about their thoughts and feelings, and that’s a great look for any type of business.
Share customer posts
You’re not the only one who can come up with great content to promote your fine dining restaurant. Your customers also love to post pictures of your awesome food. Why not share it!?
Sharing your customers’ posts is like getting free content for your social media feed. Plus, everyone likes when their posts are shared, especially by their favorite restaurant. You’ll get great promotional content for your social media platform, and your customers feel happy that you shared their photos. Win, win!
Of course, it’s not a good idea to share every post. Make sure they’re positive and show your restaurant in a good light. And, always make sure it aligns with your brand’s voice!
If your customers post photos or videos in a size that doesn’t work for your marketing campaign, using a resize tool will help you ensure your shares fit the social media platform you want to use. With one click, you can resize a vertical Instagram story, for example, to work in a horizontal Facebook post.
Keep your followers up to date
Social media is the perfect place to keep your customers up to date. It’s so easy to create a new post, you can quickly keep your followers informed about any changes like daily specials or menu updates, even from your phone. Make use of menu templates easily available online that you can quickly customize to save yourself time and money.
Even your most regular customers who have eaten every item on your menu can’t resist a delicious picture of your latest daily special. Whenever there’s a change or upcoming event in your restaurant, throw it up on social media. Your followers want to know about it!
Post regular content
The key to a killer social media campaign is to post regular content. The goal is to keep your business at the forefront of your customers’ minds. If you go too long without a post, they might forget about you!
Of course, you also don’t want to post too often and annoy your customers. It’s all about striking that happy balance.
A good rule of thumb for fine dining restaurant social media is to post around three times per week on each of your social media channels. That’ll be just enough to keep you in your customers’ thoughts without filling up their feeds.
When you post that often, it can be difficult to keep coming up with content. If you need some help creating regular high-quality posts, using social media templates can help cut down the time it takes to create posts without hindering quality.
Just choose the template that fits your brand voice, fill in your information, and post it to your social media channels. It’s quick, easy, and it looks good.
Get more customers for your fine dining restaurant
If you want to get more customers to visit your fine dining restaurant—and why wouldn’t you—social media is the perfect place to start. So many people all over the world are looking through social media platforms in search of content, and nothing is more tempting than a mouthwatering photo of a well-presented plate of food.
By using high-quality photos and videos, showing behind-the-scenes footage, engaging with your followers, keeping customers up to date, and posting regular content, you can get more happy customers into your restaurant.
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