Studies shows that 90 percent of business your restaurant gets comes from a 30 mile radius. This tells us that people will get into their cars and drive at least 30 minutes to eat at a restaurant of their choice.

So as a restaurant owner or manager its important that you position the restaurant to be found locally online by searches. These are the people who are searching from Iphones, Ipad, laptops and so forth.

They’er on Google searching for a restaurant to eat at with their loves ones or just a place to mingle and have a few drinks. Plus if you know it or not many people are not from your city so their notion is to search online for a restaurant, and those who put the work into be found will be found.

Google Your Business Name

First thing I do when working with any restaurant owners in my surrounding cites such as Shreveport, Bossier City or Minden La. Is that I will Google their name to see what comes up.

I’m doing this to see if they even have an online presence from the jump-start. My goal is to see if they even have a website, and if not encourage them to get one setup asap. Just Google “Coleman Marketing Group” and you will see that I dominate the top results so I control the information about my business.

Next I’m looking to see how many places is my business is listed when it comes to profile website like Yellow Page, Super Pages and Yelp. These are just free business profiles sites that list general information about your business.

This range from your restaurant business hours, locations, website and ect..So just for this reason these sites are extremely important for you to be found locally by those searching for restaurants in your area.

Put Your Restaurant Online

The only thing you have to do is think about your city name and/or the surrounding cities name. The reason for this is that people are going to search for the following to find local restaurants..

1. Restaurants in Dallas

2. Orlando Fl Restaurants

3. Restaurants in Shreveport La (1600 people search this term each month)

4. Chicago Restaurants

5. and so on…

All you have to do is set up free profiles on these list of 55 top local directories for your restaurant. You just sign up for a free account and enter all informationconcerning your restaurant business. But make sure you use “Your City Name + Restaurants” in the title and description when describing your business.

Now I will tell you now that most of your local competitors is not doing this. Their out running expensive ads on the local radio, TV and newspapers crossing their fingers hoping someone is listen.

But you’re not spending a dime on advertising, and will be putting your business right in front of those customers who are looking to eat in your town or city. Being found online is the best marketing and the easiest thing you can be doing for your restaurant if done right.

Set these up by following my guide of building online business profiles and in no time you will become the #1 restaurant in your local market.