Restaurant PR Workbook
Description
This interactive workbook, written exclusively for restaurants, contains step-by-step instructions on how to manage a public relations and marketing program. In addition, the workbook contains real-life press releases, fact sheets and biographies from an acclaimed New York City restaurant that achieved success doing PR.
This step-by-step guide was written by a successful food and restaurant publicist with twenty years experience. It is written to make you feel like you are working one-on-one with your own PR professional, showing you how to do the work with simple instruction and examples at every step of the way. The easy to use workbook includes the story of a critically acclaimed restaurant that achieved success doing PR – New York City’s Oceana – complete with examples, exercises and real press materials. Best of all, the book gives you all the instruction you need to get started doing your own PR today!
Buy the Restaurant PR Public Relations Workbook and learn how to create excitement and increase business at your restaurant while building closer relationships with customers and staff.
Chapter topics include:
- Designing A Public Relations and Marketing Program
- Writing Press Materials, including all Press Kit materials and Cover Letters
- Effective Ways of Communicating with the Media
- Getting the Most Out of Your Media Exposure
- Internet Marketing
- See below for the full Table of Contents...
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The workbook has been recently updated to include a Guide to Social Media, designed to inform and instruct users about all aspects of this new but critical form of communicating. 30 pages offer an introduction to Social Media and its development, and provides information about the various sites and tools of social media, and how to use them. |
In addition to teaching you, the food industry professional, how to perform your own marketing public relations, the workbook contains real-life press releases, fact sheets and biographies from a successful New York City restaurant. These samples serve as excellent templates and simplify the process of developing your own press materials.
A unique and valuable feature of the workbook is the appendix on launching a new restaurant. Step-by-step, it walks you through the process of promoting a new restaurant, from envisioning a concept for a launch party to connecting with the media in the days after. The workbook also contains an updated list of domestic and international culinary schools, as well as a complete glossary of public relations and marketing terms.
In concert with the customized media list, the workbook will place the power of public relations and marketing in your hands.
Price: $99
Format: PDF (download after purchase)
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The Member-only discount on this product is 10%
What customers are saying about the Restaurant Public Relations Workbook...
"Our food/restaurant public relations efforts are rewarded with recognition on a much greater scale than anything we would ever achieve without PR. We dedicate our time, staff and dollars to food PR to ensure that we receive that attention on a regular basis."
- Paul McLaughlin
Oceana Restaurant
New York City
"Being successful in the restaurant business has never been harder. To have good food and service is simply not enough. Salaries, rents and the cost of food have never been higher, so you simply cannot afford to have empty seats. Doing public relations helps us fill those seats."
- Nick Livanos
Molyvos
New York City
Table of Contents
I Introduction
The introduction explains why you need to begin doing your own restaurant public relations immediately. The competition for a single consumer's food dollars at every level is just too fierce to ignore restaurant pr and marketing any longer.
II What You Need to Get Started
Image
Market Position
Resources
This chapter talks about what you need to do before you even begin doing your own PR, from the in-depth examination and discussion of exactly what your restaurant is and hopes to be to its customers, to a thorough examination of your location, customers and competition. There's a list of items you need to own to do PR the right way, as well.
III Doing your Marketing Public Relations
Understanding Media Exposure
Generating Positive Media Coverage
Your Press Kit
The Cover Letter
The Press Release
What Else Affects Your Press Coverage
Communicating your Opinion
Restaurant Critics
Restaurant Location
Desk-side Briefings
Clearly, this chapter is the meat of the program, giving you literally all the instruction you will ever need concerning writing your own effective press materials, to making the pitch and following through. You'll develop your entire press kit after reading this chapter, and you'll begin doing your own PR with the confidence of an experienced expert in the field.
IV Communicating with the Media
The Media List
Relationship Building
This chapter discusses the importance of owning, developing and maintaining your list of media contacts, the members of the press who will give voice to your establishment on a regular basis. These are the most important relationships you have, next to customers and investors, of course, and this chapter will tell you how to cultivate and retain those relationships at a very high level.
V Beyond the Media: Marketing Your Restaurant
Direct Mail
Newsletter
Internet Marketing
Trade Shows and Organizations
Today, successful Restaurant PR is so much more than media communications. It includes many of the tactics used in marketing that directly touch your consumer and help you maintain a high stature and solid reputation in industry. This chapter discusses those tactics, to make you a restaurant marketed of the highest level.
VI What else is Needed Besides Media Exposure
Events: Customer Events, Media Events, and More
Media Exposure Beyond Traditional Publicity
Travel Related Events
Magazine On-premise Events
Cause Marketing
Advertising
More than even the traditional marketing tactics discussed in the previous chapter, this one tells you how to create excitement about your restaurant, both on and off your own premises. This chapter helps you become a business builder, and relationship developer and a more successful restaurant operator.
VII How You Can Get the Most Out of Your Media Exposure
What does it take to become a Food Media Resource
Media Training
Media Training, An Overview
Here you will learn the inside secrets to becoming invaluable to the media. This chapter tells you what to do to become a resource, and how to talk to media once you're in.
VIII What Else Is There?
Cooking Classes, On- and Off-premise
Cooking Demonstrations
The Culinary Alma Mater
Customer Surveys
What To Do In a Crisis
There is so much more to doing restaurant marketing and pr than we've covered already. This chapter explores the very exciting ways you can promote your restaurant through your chef and kitchen team, and then helps you make the most of several key relationships. We will also look at something we at Restaurant PR hope you never need: what to do in a crisis, from the public relations perspective.
IX Writing Your Media Plan
There is so much to do now that you've completed the workbook, exercises and all. This chapter pulls it all together, guiding you along a recap of each chapter's directions, and helping you develop a media plan you'll use in the coming years.
X. Appendix I: How to Launch a New Restaurant
X1. Appendix II: RestaurantPR.com
XII. Appendix III: Glossary of Public Relations and Marketing Terms
XII1. Appendix IV: Cooking Schools
XIV: Appendix V: Oceana Press Kit
The appendices provide valuable tools independent of the workbook itself. Here you will find an isolated discussion of each topic, including the PR steps to successfully launching a restaurant, a glossary of all the words and phrases you'll run across doing your own PR, a comprehensive international and domestic list of schools you'll want to know about for the benefit of your restaurant and staff, and finally, a completed press kit of a top New York City restaurant, to serve as an example you can follow.
MEMBER ONLY DISCOUNT
The Member-only discount on this product is 10%