The Fundamentals of Local SEO for Restaurants From scouting out a spot for lunch with a client to finding the best happy hour in town, the restaurants industry is the most widely searched by consumers both on mobile and desktop. Even as a restauranteur yourself, it’s likely even you have turned to Google or Yelp ... <a title="Local SEO Strategies to Boost Your Restaurant’s Online Visibility" class="read-more" href="https://newstaging.evokad.com/local-seo-restaurants/" aria-label="Read more about Local SEO Strategies to Boost Your Restaurant’s Online Visibility">Read more</a>

Influencer Marketing Is Key to Restaurant Success in Today’s Market Today, people use social media for practically everything, whether it’s watching makeup tutorials, learning a new yoga pose or watching a dog cuddle a newborn baby. But, out of all the content out there, there’s one interest we all share—our love for food. Food-related content ... <a title="Three Influencer-Driven Strategies to Transform Your Restaurant Marketing" class="read-more" href="https://newstaging.evokad.com/influencer-marketing-restaurants/" aria-label="Read more about Three Influencer-Driven Strategies to Transform Your Restaurant Marketing">Read more</a>

Discovering Your First Negative Online Review “Melissa C.”—that horrid reviewer who brought down your Yelp rating by one-fourth of a star. After reading her review, you wanted to type away in a flurry of emotions and tell her that she was wrong and that your greens beans are supposed to be “extra” buttery and actually ... <a title="Customer Reviews: Turning Negativity into Five-Star Experiences" class="read-more" href="https://newstaging.evokad.com/online-reviews-influence-purchase-behavior/" aria-label="Read more about Customer Reviews: Turning Negativity into Five-Star Experiences">Read more</a>

Your restaurant knows that by May 7, 2018, all of the menus will be plastered with the caloric intake of each food item. But the part your restaurant might be stumbling in the dark about is how consumers will respond to these little numbers splattered across all of the big menu boards. Will the restaurant ... <a title="How Menu Labeling Laws Will Affect the Consumer Experience" class="read-more" href="https://newstaging.evokad.com/you-should-advertise-your-new-menus-with-caloric-intake/" aria-label="Read more about How Menu Labeling Laws Will Affect the Consumer Experience">Read more</a>

Even though we’re still a long way out from being served our Big Macs by an army of HAL 9000s, restaurants are still leading the charge when it comes to implementing self-ordering kiosks. Digital receipts, digital boards, iPad menus and POS tablets have already made their way into the restaurant industry. Self-ordering kiosks are expected ... <a title="How the Self-Serving Kiosk Will Boost Your Restaurant Sales" class="read-more" href="https://newstaging.evokad.com/how-the-self-serving-kiosk-will-boost-your-restaurant-sales/" aria-label="Read more about How the Self-Serving Kiosk Will Boost Your Restaurant Sales">Read more</a>

Technology is changing the world we live in, and the restaurant industry is no exception. Restaurants need to change how they market to their customers in order to stay in business. They’re are offering farm to table, open concepts, rotating menus, and online ordering all to cater to the ever-changing needs of their consumers. Americans ... <a title="So You Think You Know the Restaurant Industry?" class="read-more" href="https://newstaging.evokad.com/restaurant-marketing-strategies/" aria-label="Read more about So You Think You Know the Restaurant Industry?">Read more</a>

Have you ever been traveling in your car and wondered what restaurants are nearby?  Well, it seems that a lot of people are doing just that, as Google searches for “near me,” “nearby,” “closest” and “nearest” have increased by 300% from just a few years ago, with 80% of those searches coming from a mobile ... <a title="How Can Restaurants Leverage “Near Me” Search Optimization?" class="read-more" href="https://newstaging.evokad.com/how-can-restaurants-leverage-near-me-search-optimization/" aria-label="Read more about How Can Restaurants Leverage “Near Me” Search Optimization?">Read more</a>

What makes food “healthy?” Is it the caloric value? Or the way it makes us feel? Through the decades, the definition of healthy eating has drastically changed, so much so that those questions would draw out vastly different answers from a Baby Boomer and a Millennial. But that’s not all that has changed. Let’s dive ... <a title="Healthy Eating: What It Means to Millennials Versus Baby Boomers" class="read-more" href="https://newstaging.evokad.com/healthy-eating-baby-boomers-millennials/" aria-label="Read more about Healthy Eating: What It Means to Millennials Versus Baby Boomers">Read more</a>

Over the last five years, a phenomenon has taken place within the restaurant scenes of cities with high tourist traffic. As hungry travelers and local foodies of different cultural backgrounds become more prevalent in places like Austin, Las Vegas, St. Petersburg, Florida, and even Orlando, the gap for more unique and tasteful restaurants needs to ... <a title="How Small Restaurants Survive in a Big-Chain World" class="read-more" href="https://newstaging.evokad.com/indie-restaurants-vs-big-chains/" aria-label="Read more about How Small Restaurants Survive in a Big-Chain World">Read more</a>

It’s 8:30 pm and you’re just now getting home from work after a long day. You’re starving and cooking up a meal from scratch is out of the question but your lack of time isn’t an excuse to settle for a lack of flavor or nutrition. What do you reach for? A few years back, ... <a title="How the Frozen Aisle is Standing Up to the Heat of Food Trends" class="read-more" href="https://newstaging.evokad.com/food-trends-marketing/" aria-label="Read more about How the Frozen Aisle is Standing Up to the Heat of Food Trends">Read more</a>