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  Menu  Space Rental  Full Bar  Merchandising (caps and Tees)  Carryout  Takeout  Gift Cards  Office Catering  Special Events- Wine Tasting Revenue Sources

  Café experience- The experience of dining as a service  Healthy and light Food- We offer healthy choices for lunch and dinner  Entertainment- We offer a relaxed and social environment  Bar- We offer a full bar for adult drinkers Our Products positioning statement

  Positioning of product or service  Our marketing efforts should center around why our food is appealing, sexy, high-quality, or in some way unique and position it as a lifestyle product. Example.  We provide a focused menu, quality food and full bar and social experience for customers seeking a relax, social and upscale environment. Our Uniqueness.  We offer a non traditional menu with a traditional bar setting and a bed and breakfast you can stay the night. (you can get drunk and stay healthy with vegan and vegetarian food.) Positioning

  Individuals: people that dine in by themselves.  Families: a group of people, either friends or a group of nuclear relatives dining together.  Take out: people that prefer to eat food in their home or at a different location than the actual restaurant.  Carryout- People who order in groups (over $50) who would like food delivered to them during lunch Demographics

 1. Institutional marketing - Promote the life style and entertainment value through PR and Blogging 2. Program Marketing-Product and Retention Strategy To seek customer awareness, develop our customer base and work toward building customer loyalty and referrals.  Establish customer retention and customer engagement programs.  Establish sales goals for staff to achieve (the perfect check theory)  To provide food and drink programs that increase Average ticket price and more consumption of our goods. Our programs should target college, hospital and the local business community. Marketing Strategy

  Our programs and tactic used will be centered around 4 core attributes  Increase customer frequency- (coupons and specials)  Increase check average (waitress and bar tender recommendations and up-selling tactic)  Group size (target large group orders with carryout and in-store  Identify our hottest sellers, best approach and get customer feedback  Increase our Rating Core Marketing Objectives

  Get customer Feedback  Increase our rating (direct guests to yelp)  Lead capturing (example. )  Position up-sell influencers in the café (flyers)  Cross market other products  Use suggestive selling tactics  Send weekly invitations, coupons and special discount via  Track our best sellers and measure feedback  Take customer order, service them, bill collection and post sale tactics  Food Sampling Marketing Activities and opportunities in-store

  Local Search (city paper, google maps and yellow pages)  Social Networking (engage fans on twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Photo-sharing sites)  RSS and Blogs- (Post press releases, menus, food articles on wordpress, blogger etc)  Search engine- optimize for local and niche keywords to drive traffic to website  Street Promotions- Delivery menu and coupons to local residents and businesses  Strategic offline Partnerships- Reach out to local area school and hospitals.  Strategic online Partners- Identify online partners that drive traffic and retain customers (opentable.com, delivery.com)  Launch Google Adwords Paid program Marketing Activities and opportunities outreach

  Happy Hour  Vegan Wednesday  Karaoke  Sports Bar  D.C Government worker Day  Community Day  Sport Sundays and Mondays  College lunch  Wine Tasting Saturdays  Wi-Fi & coffee Café Weekly Programs

  Strategy - Press Release should focus on our weekly programs, accomplishments, new products and services - Articles should be written in the areas of Travel, Food and Nightlife  Execution  Get news featured in Print  Post Press Release and articles to blog websites, social networks, pr submission website and news site (RSS).  Optimize Press release with high impact keywords  Submit press release and stories to local bloggers Public Relations

  Customer acquisition – word of mouth, referral, flyer distribution, Google maps, local directories, online search, PR and strategic partners  Customer Retention- customer loyalty programs, specials, coupons and appreciation days, acquisition, Birthday Invitations  Up-selling- Sampling, Suggestive selling and marketing materials  Operational strategies- Identifying our most profitable programs, products etc Bringing things all together

  P/L Statement  Prime cost worksheet  Break-even analysis  Customer Feedback (Yelp, Usersvoice.com, Going.com, Facebook, Twitter and message boards)  Coupons Validated  open rates and click throughs  Event confirmations and ticket purchases Success Metrics and Tracking

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