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Struggling to increase your covers? A guide for food entrepreneurs during the pandemic

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Guide for Food Entrepreneurs

Whether you own a restaurant or are looking to open one it is crucial to ensure you keep your tables full, especially in an uncertain market. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted trade with not just lockdown but also home-working causing a loss of passing trade and cautious customers also cancelling bookings.

Topics include:

  • Marketing Strategy
    • Using social media
    • Influencing and targeting
  • Reducing no shows
  • Retaining customers
  • Guarding your reputation

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