By developing custom iPhone and Android apps for your restaurant business, you can open the doors for some of the best promotional strategies.
You can develop various mobile applications to help your restaurant business attract more customers within a shortest time. You just have to be more innovative in this to offer convenience and facility to your customers through your mobile apps.
Custom restaurant apps give you 24/7 access to your customer base. This can not only help in increasing your business as compared to your competitors, but will also increase your customer loyalty.
Here are a few ideas for custom mobile applications to help your restaurant business attract more customers:
1. In-App Reservations
Customers can be provided with convenient feature within your restaurant app which allows them to make reservation, receive confirmation through email with date, time and party size and also turn-by-turn directions to your restaurant location.
This will allow your customers to make reservations anytime convenient to them. Your customers can even call you with an easy one-touch button on the landing page of your custom app.
2. Digital Menus
You can impress your customers with a “digital menu”. Definitely your customers will astounded by the way they are served by you before their welcome drink. By offering them a facility to choose their menu on iPad or tablets, you provide them a sophisticated way to choose their dishes and meals.
These types of apps allow then restful attention, as they can easily search for their favorite cuisines and dishes. This digital menu can be simple, yet strategically stimulating and directional.
You can help your customers with suggestive themes with a segregated layout that can work wonders for you. Imagine placing a screen in front of them, which offers a simple selection module with a separate section for both non-vegetarian and vegetarian and other cuisines!
3. Google Maps-Based Apps
You can integrate Google map in your restaurant app to help customers in reaching your restaurant or its different branches using Google map.
You will also be tagged and will show up in results when somebody will search for the restaurants or keys in some word that suits your parameters in the chosen locality.
4. Promotional Apps
You can interact with your customers directly and keep them updated 24/7 with promotional offers, discount offers and special offerings. You can also encourage your customers to refer more people and offer them auto generated privilege offers and loyalty points.
5. Update Apps
You can share amazing videos and pictures of your restaurant. Party space, events, celebrity visits, food, hospitality, occasional decorations and food can be shared with the guests and customers.
With mobile apps, it is also possible to share chef’s special advice, video testimonials, information on different branches, proclaimed services, facilities and birthday celebrations that are available as a part of your extended services with the help of intuitive videos.
6. Payment Apps
You can make payment by your customers easy with a module that interactively asks them to pay their bill through card or cash. With the help of mobile apps, you can offer them loyalty points, cross-promotional offers and additional privileges.
Your customers would love this even more when they would get innovative features such as comparison of their current bill with the bill that they would have paid if they had visited your restaurant during happy hours or other schemes, or a simple tip calculator!
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