Restaurant Industry Resources, Guides, and Tools

Discover a wide range of successful marketing strategies, creative solutions for expanding your restaurant, and key resources to enhance your operational efficiency and drive your business towards success.

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Increase Reservations

Explore groundbreaking and data-driven templates to help your restaurant increase online bookings.

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Customer Acquisition Strategy eBook

How to get more guests online and triple your restaurant revenue.

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Set Up Google Reservations

Receive bookings from millions of potential diners searching your restaurant on Google.

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Instagram Booking Widget Checklist

Activate your “Book now” button and allows diners to book from your IG profile.

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Turn Your Social Media Followers Into Guests

This eBook guides you through social media integrations and how you can convert your followers into guests for free.

Reservations or Walk-Ins Which is better?

Your Free Restaurant Reservation Template

Collect important guest info such as customer names, addresses, and more with our free reservation template.

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Restaurant Marketing Plan

A restaurant marketing plan outlines a strategy to promote a brand, acquire guests, and enhance the guest experience.

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Grow Your Restaurant Brand with Social Media

Explore our basic yet effective guidelines you can easily use with every platform.

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Guide to Optimizing Online Booking Widget

Free step-by-step guide: convert your restaurant's online traffic into real restaurant reservations. 

Buyer's Guide to Reservation Software

Buyer's Guide to Reservation Software

This guide is for restaurant operators looking for restaurant reservation software and want to make an informed decision.

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Maximize Revenue from your Floorplan

Learn how you can effectively manage and make the most out of your restaurant's limited floor space with this free guide.

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Ultimate Guide to Restaurant Marketing

Grab the 35 page, 8000 word guide to restaurant marketing.

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Social Media Policy Template

Get started on creating a social media policy for your restaurant. Download our free template with detailed instructions to make the process easier.

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Guide to Online Booking Widgets

Learn how you can make the most out of your restaurant's online booking channels with Eat App's advanced booking widget.

Streamline Operations

Reduce staff errors and streamline your operations to work more sufficiently with these effective templates.

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Restaurant Training Manual

The best way to provide each employee with consistent training is to create a restaurant training manual.

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SWOT Analysis Bundle

Run a SWOT analysis for your restaurant, and find out more about your venue's strengths and weaknesses.

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Restaurant Operations Manual

Create an operations manual for your restaurant and start working more effectively and sufficiently today.

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Waitlist Management Manual

A step-by-step guide to level up your waitlist process and increase revenue.

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A 5-Step No-Show Reduction Guide

A quick and easy five-step guide to help your restaurant decrease its no-show rate.

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8 Ways To Improve Profits Using Data

An in-depth guide to help your restaurant increase revenue by using key analytics.

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Profitable Menu Pricing Sheet

This is the only excel you need to determine profitable menu prices so you can accurately predict profitability.

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Restaurant Employee Evaluation Template

Stay updated about your employees' performance on a regular basis with an in-depth employee evaluation form.

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Contribution Margin Excel Sheet

Join the thousands of restaurants that use contribution margins as an alternative to traditional food cost percentages to hit their monthly profit goals.

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Excel Hashtag Organizer

Get rid of the mess and track your hashtags in an organized way with this free hashtag organizer.

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Sensitive Item Inventory Excel

The sensitive item inventory helps you track these high value items and take action when there are problems.

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Essential Restaurant Software Checklist

This checklist has everything you need to get your restaurant up and running with the best management software.

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Restaurant Lingo Cheat Sheet

100+ common restaurant terms explained in one easy-to-understand cheat sheet.

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Restaurant Daily Opening Checklist

Use our free downloadable PDF to create opening checklists for your restaurant now.

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Restaurant Mission Statement Template

Writing your restaurant's mission statement but unsure what to include in it? Download our free template to make the process easier.

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Maximize ROI from Eat App

Thinking of investing in Eat App but not sure if it's worth the cost? This free guide will take you through how the system gives back to your restaurant.

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Restaurant Employee Handbook

Planning to write an employee handbook for your staff? Download our free template with detailed instructions to make the process easier.

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Profit & Loss Template

This free restaurant profit and loss template helps you determine your restaurant's current financial status It also helps you keep track of your spending.

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Restaurant Business Plan Template

Opening a restaurant or looking to improve operations at your existing business? Download our free restaurant business plan template to make the process easier. 

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Food Cost Calculator

This free food cost calculator works out food cost per dish and helps you calculate food cost percentage.

Improve Guest Experience

Personalize the guest experience, welcome loyal customers back, and make customer service decisions that drive retention and revenue.

Helped You Build an Even Better Guest Experience

Build a Better Guest Experience

View our step-by-step guide to level up your customer service and increase loyalty.

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Improve Your Hotel's Guest Experience

An in-depth guide to taking your guest experience to the next level.

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Your Guide To Collecting Guest Feedback

Start getting feedback from your visitors that will help you improve your guest experience.

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Meet Your Guests' Changing Needs

Learn how restaurant data can help you give your guests a better guest experience.

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Increase Repeat Visits With Automation

Say hello to a marketing system that keeps restaurant diners returning for more.

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Restaurant Survey Form Templates

This editable, free to use restaurant survey form template will help get you started in gathering valuable information from your diners.

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Supercharge the guest experience with tags

Learn how you can use your CRM system to personalize the dining experience to the next level.

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Grand Opening Invitation Templates

Use these free templates to attract a large audience to your restaurant's grand opening event.

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Event Planning Checklist

Download our free event planning checklist with detailed instructions to make the process easier.

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Menu Engineering Bundle

Use this menu engineering excel sheet and accompanying guide to set up a well-engineered menu at your restaurant.

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Reservation Email Templates

These free and easy to use templates include everything you need to start confirming, canceling, and modifying reservations at your restaurant.

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A quick 30 min demo will get all your questions answered and make sure you’re up for success.

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