Owner guide
Guides for restaurant owners
Plain answers to the questions owners ask most: more sales, bad and fake reviews, texting guests, Google Maps, delivery app fees, social media and catering. Each one with a picture of the screen that matters.
Run the free check · Call (515) 493-0243 · Tiếng Việt · Español · 简体中文 · 繁體中文 · 한국어 · 日本語 · ไทย · ລາວ · Tagalog · हिन्दी · नेपाली · ខ្មែរ · မြန်မာ · Hmoob
What you get
More sales
- How to increase restaurant sales: 8 ways that work
- Slow days at your restaurant: how to fill the quiet hours
- How to raise your average order without raising prices
- How to get more lunch orders
- How to price your menu, and when to raise prices
- Restaurant promotions that do not hurt your margins
- A restaurant marketing calendar for the whole year
- How to get more pickup orders
Reviews
- How to respond to a bad review
- Can you remove a Google review? What actually works
- Fake reviews on your restaurant: how to spot and report them
- How to get more 5-star Google reviews
- How to reply to good reviews
- 12 review reply examples for restaurants
- Yelp reviews: what restaurant owners can and cannot do
Guests and texts
- 20 text message ideas for restaurants
- Text marketing rules for restaurants, in plain words
- How to get repeat customers
- How to build your own customer list
- Birthday offers that bring guests in
- How to win back guests who stopped coming
- Restaurant email marketing: what to send and when
Google and Maps
- How to get your restaurant on Google Maps
- How to fix the Order button on your Google listing
- How to update holiday hours on Google
- How to show up in “near me” searches
- Photos for your Google listing: what to post and how often
- Restaurant not showing on Google? 7 things to check
- Apple Maps and Yelp: why your listings there matter
Social media
- Instagram for restaurants: a simple plan
- TikTok for restaurants: is it worth it?
- Facebook for restaurants: page, posts and groups
- How to take great food photos with your phone
- 30 social media post ideas for restaurants
- Short videos for restaurants, made easy
Ordering and delivery apps
- How much do delivery apps charge restaurants?
- Commission-free online ordering: how it works
- Delivery vs pickup: which makes you more money?
- QR codes for ordering: where to put them
- How to write an online menu that sells
- Delivery apps and your own ordering, together
Website, POS and app
- Restaurant website checklist: 12 things it needs
- Why your restaurant website is slow, and how to fix it
- Online ordering with your POS: Clover, Square and Toast
- Is a restaurant app worth it?
Catering, loyalty and getting started
- How to get more catering orders
- How to win office lunch orders
- Restaurant loyalty program ideas that work
- Marketing a new restaurant: your first 30 days
- Free restaurant marketing that actually works
EatFuti is in Des Moines, Iowa, and works with independent restaurants across the United States, most of all in Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas and Texas.
How it works with EatFuti
- Run the free check. Three minutes, no sign-up. See your Google page, where your Order button goes and how your site does on a phone.
- Say yes. Send your photos and menu, or we take the menu from your POS or online. Online ordering is live 48 to 72 hours after signup.
- Your website goes up. Built for you from your photos, menu and reviews, right after ordering is live. You approve it before it goes up.