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Hotel food and beverage marketing

Turn the hotel restaurant and bar into somewhere locals choose, not just somewhere guests eat because they’re staying.

Most hotel restaurants are marketed to people who are already in the building.

Guests will usually eat in at least once. The opportunity is everyone else: locals, office workers, people celebrating, people who’d never think of a hotel restaurant as a night out. Win them and the restaurant and bar become a reason to visit, and often a reason to stay.

We market hotel restaurants and bars as destinations in their own right, with their own content, accounts, offers and search presence, while keeping the link to the hotel clear. It’s the approach behind one hotel’s 58% year-on-year rise in F&B revenue in three months.

Sell the restaurant to the people who aren’t staying.

What’s included

01

Restaurant-first content

Food, drink and atmosphere at the centre, not the bedrooms.

02

Its own identity

Its own accounts and pages where that suits the restaurant.

03

Local campaigns

Ads and offers aimed at people who live and work nearby.

04

Search and Maps

The restaurant and bar found in local searches, not hidden under the hotel listing.

05

Occasions and events

Sunday lunch, afternoon tea, Christmas and private dining.

06

Reporting on covers

Food and beverage revenue and covers, reported alongside rooms.

In pictures

Beach days
Sunset by the sea
Champagne on the dunes
Hotel restaurant
Steak and red wine
Steak and red wine
Sunday roast

Results

+58%

Year-on-year food and beverage revenue for a hotel in three months. Room bookings rose 26% over the same period. See our work

Questions

Often, yes, if it has its own identity and wants a local audience. We’ll recommend the right setup after the free audit.

It can. In the case above, room bookings rose 26% in the same three months as F&B revenue grew 58%.

Yes. Bars, terraces, afternoon tea and private dining all get their own place in the plan.

Not necessarily. We recommend what will help, if anything, after the audit.

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