# Birthday offers that bring guests in

A birthday gift is the most welcome message a restaurant can send. It feels personal, and birthdays are often celebrated with a meal.

## Step by step

1. **Collect birthdays simply.** Ask for month and day only, when guests join your list or order online.
2. **Pick a gift that costs little.** A free dessert, drink or appetizer. Something that comes with a meal, not instead of one.
3. **Give a week to use it.** Birthdays get busy. A week makes it easy to come.
4. **Send it on time.** A short text a few days before or on the birthday, from the restaurant by name.
5. **Make the visit special.** If they mention it, a candle or a song costs nothing and gets remembered.

## Guests and texts

- [20 text message ideas for restaurants](https://scanner.eatfuti.com/guides/text-message-ideas)
- [Text marketing rules for restaurants, in plain words](https://scanner.eatfuti.com/guides/text-marketing-rules)
- [How to get repeat customers](https://scanner.eatfuti.com/guides/repeat-customers)
- [How to build your own customer list](https://scanner.eatfuti.com/guides/build-customer-list)
- [How to win back guests who stopped coming](https://scanner.eatfuti.com/guides/win-back-guests)
- [Restaurant email marketing: what to send and when](https://scanner.eatfuti.com/guides/email-marketing)

## Example text

“Happy birthday from all of us at Golden Bowl! Your dessert is free this week. [link]”

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

1. **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.
2. **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.
3. **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.

## Questions owners ask

### Should the birthday gift be free food or a discount?

Free food feels more like a gift. A small item is enough.

### Do I need the year of birth?

No. Month and day are enough, and guests share them more easily.

## See where your restaurant stands today

[Run the free check](https://scanner.eatfuti.com/) (Free · 3 minutes · no credit card). Call (515) 493-0243.

Tiếng Việt: https://scanner.eatfuti.com/vi/guides/birthday-offers · Español: https://scanner.eatfuti.com/es/guides/birthday-offers

Source: https://scanner.eatfuti.com/guides/birthday-offers · EatFuti Inc., 700 Locust St, Ste 304, Des Moines, IA 50309