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Strategi Pemasaran Restoran

Identifikasi pangsa pasar dan kebutuhannya merupakan langkah awal dalam menyusun strategi pemasaran. Berikutnya menyusun rencana kegiatan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan tersebut serta kemudian merealisasikan rencana tersebut dengan mengerahkan segenap faktor yang berada dalam jangkauan pengelola. Faktor- faktor yang dikenal dengan formula 4P's, yaitu Products, Promotion, Place, dan Price.

Salah satu cara yang cukup strategis untuk mengidentifikasi pangsa pasar sasaran diantaranya dengan melakukan riset terhadap kebutuhan, keinginan, dan harapan calon pelanggan potensial. Analisis trading area yang meliputi variabel geografis, demografis, psikografis, dan behavioral, akan dapat memberikan gambaran peluang dan hambatan bagi rujukan strategi yang akan dilakukan.

Products. Tidak hanya makanan, melainkan termasuk di dalamnya suasana lingkungan restoran yang meliputi kenyamanan, keindahan, kebersihan, dan kesehatan serta pelayanan yang diberikan.
Promotion. Di samping advertensi dan teknik penjualan, juga termasuk kreasi dalam menciptakan image dan identitas perusahaan, juga elemen-elemen pengembangan produk.

4 Cara Meningkatkan Sales Restoran

Setiap upaya meningkatkan sales - promosi, iklan, penawaran -  akan mendorong dan berpengaruh pada empat kategori berikut:

Pelanggan Baru / New Trial
Kunjungan pertama kali pelanggan baru merupakan saat yang paling menentukan. Mereka akan menangkap kesan, membangun image dan pendapat mengenai restoran anda selama kunjungan berlangsung. Sejak saat itu pula mereka akan memberikan penilaian seberapa besar mereka terkesan dengan restoran anda serta mempertimbangkan untuk berhubungan atau berkunjung di masa yang akan datang. Kategori ini menjadi cara termahal dibanding kategori lainnya karena ia perlu dipersiapkan dan diorganisasikan dengan matang. Kualitas produk, sistem pelayanan, kebersihan, visibilitas , dan aksesibilitas, haruslah senantiasa dijaga agar impresif dimata pelanggan. Setelah pelanggan dibentuk, selanjutnya upaya difokuskan pada kategori-kategori berikutnya.

Frekuensi Kunjungan
Upaya  agar pelanggan yang telah ada mau kembali ke restoran anda untuk kunjungan selanjutnya dilakukan

8 Aturan Dalam Melayani Pelanggan

Layanan pelanggan yang baik merupakan nadi kehidupan bisnis apa pun. Kita bisa saja menawarkan harga promosi dan memberikan potongan harga untuk mendatangkan pelanggan baru sebanyak yang kita inginkan, namun kecuali hanya mendapatkan beberapa pelanggan datang kembali, bisnis kita tidak akan memberikan keuntungan untuk waktu yang lama.

Layanan pelanggan yang baik meliputi segala hal mengenai bagaimana membawa pelanggan kembali, puas dengan layanan kita, dan menyampaikan kepuasan tersebut kepada orang lain sehingga diharapkan mereka datang kembali dan menjadi pelanggan setia.

Jika kita benar-benar menginginkan hal tersebut terjadi, maka pastikan bisnis kita secara konsisten melakukan aturan-aturan berikut:

1. Jawablah telepon.
Pastikan bahwa seseorang mengangkat telepon ketika ada panggilan bisnis untuk kita. Gunakan call forwarding atau pekerjakan seorang operator jika perlu.

2. Jangan membuat janji kecuali kita dapat menjaga dan menepati.
Berpikirlah sebelum kita memberikan janji, pertimbangkan tengat waktu.

The World's Best Airline Awards 2013



Ranking 1 to 20
The World Airline Awards are a primary benchmarking tool for Passenger Satisfaction levels of airlines throughout the world, delivering a unique survey format based on analysis of business and leisure travellers, across all cabin travel types (First Class, Business Class, Premium Economy Class and Economy class passengers).

Air travellers completed an online survey questionnaire about their experience with airlines on the ground and onboard, during a 10-month period. The survey measures passenger satisfaction across more than 40 key performance indicators of airline front-line product and service - including check-in, boarding, onboard seat comfort, cabin cleanliness, food, beverages, inflight entertainment and staff service. The Survey covered over 200 airlines, from the largest international airlines to smaller domestic carriers.


1
Emirates



2
Qatar Airways

3
Singapore Airlines

4
ANA All Nippon Airways

5
Asiana Airlines

6
Cathay Pacific Airways

7
Etihad Airways

8
Garuda Indonesia

9
Turkish Airlines

10
Qantas Airways

11
Lufthansa

12
EVA Air

13
Virgin Australia

14
Malaysia Airlines

15
Thai Airways

16
Swiss Int'l Air Lines

17
Korean Air

18
Air New Zealand

19
Hainan Airlines

20
Air Canada


The World's 50 Best Restaurant Award 2011

quoted from William Reed Business Media Ltd

The much-anticipated S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants Awards 2011 was held on Monday 18th April at the historic Guildhall in the City of London, in the company of the world's finest chefs, international media and the world's most influential restaurateurs.
The S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants Awards and List is organised and compiled by Restaurant magazine, and sponsored by S.Pellegrino. The Awards are now in their tenth year.

Marketing Strategy

Approach and Concept

Marketing is far more than just selling, although higher sales are obviously the ultimate aim. Rather, marketing is a whole collection of activities including advertising, selling and sales promotion, marketing research, introduction of new products, pricing, packaging, distribution and after sales service.

Approaches to Marketing
One approach to marketing is to regard it as the process of finding customers for goods which the firm has already decided to supply. In this case there is much emphasis on face to face customer contact, price cutting, heavy advertising and sales promotions. It might be assumed that customers will always want to purchase well-constructed items that are made available to them at low cost: that all a firm needs to do is offer for sale high quality, sound value product with many attractive features, provide effective after-sales service, and then the goods will ‘sell themselves’.

The Marketing Concept
Alternatively, the firm might seek to evaluate market opportunities before production, assess potential demand for the good, determine the product characteristics desired by consumers, predict the prices consumers are willing to play, and then supply goods corresponding to the needs and wants of target markets more effectively than competitors, business adopting the latter approach are said to apply the marketing concept.
Adherence to the marketing concept means the firm conceives and develops product that satisfy consumer wants. Note however that:
  • consumers demand can be and frequently is created and manipulated through advertising campaigns
  • unquestioning adoption of the concept could lead to the productions of items that are highly attractive to consumers but which nevertheless are expensive to supply and thus generate negligible profit.
Practical application of the marketing concept implies the full integration of marketing with other business activities (design, production, costing, transport, and distribution, corporate strategy and planning) so that the marketing department assumes extraordinary importance within the firm. Numerous conflicts with other functions arise from situation.


The Marketing Mix

In 1965 Professor N. H. Borden coined the phrase ‘marketing mix’ to describe the combination of marketing element used in given set of circumstances. Appropriate mixes vary depending on the firm and industry, and over time. Professor E. J. McCarty subsequently summarized the

Market Segmentation


The term ‘market segmentation’ describes the breaking down of a market into self-contained and relatively homogeneous sub-groups of customers, each with its own special requirements and characteristics. Products and advertising message can then be altered to make them appeal to particular segments.

Markets may be segmented with respect to customers’ location, ages, incomes, social class, or other demographic variables, or according to consumer lifestyle, attitudes, interests and opinions as they affect purchasing behavior.

It does seem that many consumers buy goods that fit in with a chosen lifestyle (healthy, sophisticated, rugged, etc.) and with their perceptions of what they ought to purchase in order to pursue that lifestyle. Once the lifestyle to which potential consumers aspire is identified, advertising message can be modified in appropriate ways.

Differentiated versus undifferentiated marketing strategies

A differentiated marketing strategy requires the firm to modify its products for various market segments and to operate in all sectors. Production and promotion costs are normally higher when this approach is followed.

10 Ways to Stay Ahead of Your Restaurant Competition


quoted from Ian Macdonald - founder and owner of Macdonald's Gourmet Burgers

Every restaurant owner should constantly be taking an objective look at how well your restaurant is doing. Staying ahead of the competition will keep you on your toes. Here are some ways you can get a good report card.

1. Know who your competition is!
I have encountered situations where a restaurant owner has identified the competition. Or at least what they think is their competition, but they're not. If I am selling Gourmet Burgers with the finest of ingredients, including trimmed premium Scotch Fillet Steak for the beef patties, (like I do), in a licensed restaurant with full service and extras, I am not really in Competition with the greasy burger joint down the road, or a group like Burger King am I?
So make sure your competition is truly your competition in the first place.

2. Get Employees to Sample the Competition.
You should always know what your competition is doing, it is essential to your success. It may be difficult to go yourself though as you would no doubt be known. So send one of your employees instead. Brief them what to look for. It will also give you the opportunity to treat a staff member to something different. How about showing up for work to be told you have to go out to dinner or lunch...all expenses paid!!!
3. Employ the services of a mystery shopper.
This is the reverse of what we have just spoken about. Here you get someone to come to your restaurant and report back to you. So none of you staff know what's going on. I organise this by going to our local business or community college and speaking to someone from the food and beverage school. They always suggest a student that would excel at the project. They earn some money, have some fun, and get a free meal. I often donate something to the college or I might even go and speak to there for them.
Everybody wins.

Konsumen dan Restoran: Menjaga Keseimbangan Kepentingan

Pengelola bisnis restoran tidak cukup hanya meningkatkan penjualan, ia harus pula berkemampuan untuk mengendalikan cost dan operating expenses.

Adanya cost control adalah dimaksudkan untuk itu, yaitu menyeimbangkan kepentingan konsumen dengan perusahaan. Pengendalian cost tidak boleh merugikan salah satu fihak.

Seberapa besar nilai kepuasan yang diperoleh konsumen akan menyangkut fungsi antara harga dan kualitas.

Value = f (P.Q)
P: price,   Q; quality
Nilai (value) merupakan fungsi harga (price) dan kualitas (quality)

Persepsi konsumen terhadap kualitas layanan yang diperoleh akan diukur oleh besarnya uang yang dibelanjakan. Manakala layanan yang diperoleh tidak seimbang dengan uang yang dibelanjakan, dapat diartikan bahwa uang mereka bernilai rendah dan adalah bertentangan dengan harapan konsumen yang menginginkan uang yang dibelanjakan bernilai tinggi.

Sebaliknya fihak restoran menghargai nilai uang konsumen dengan layanan yang diberikan. Perbedaan kepentingan antara konsumen akan terjadi. Fungsi control bertujuan menyeimbangkan kepentingan konsumen dan produsen dengan melakukan corrective action terhadap setiap penyimpangan yang terjadi.


Pola Perilaku Pelayanan

Salah satu ciri bisnis restoran ialah dalam operasionalnya terjadi kontak langsung antara karyawan dengan tamu. Kontak langsung ini merupakan moment of truth dan sangat berpengaruh terhadap kepuasan tamu. Ini berarti perilaku karyawan memegang peranan penting terhadap upaya memberikan kepuasan kepada tamu. Menurut Fagel, periode 5 menit pertama saat tamu mengunjungi restoran merupakan saat krusial dilihat dari aspek perilaku karyawan ini. Justifikasi tamu selanjutnya akan diberikan kepada aspek fisik, suasana dan proses pelayanan itu sendiri.

Demikian pentingnya faktor ini dalam bisnis restoran, sehingga orang tidak dapat lagi hanya mengandalkan produk fisiknya semata, melainkan harus pula menggunakan aspek pelayanan sebagai alat bersaing yang dapat diandalkan.


Mengenal Kultur Kulineri Konsumen

Produk makanan dan minuman yang ditawarkan kepada konsumen menentukan cepat atau lambatnya pengembalian investasi. Pengelola bisnis restoran harus memiliki kepekaan terhadap keinginan konsumen. Perencanaan menu yang kurang tepat akan berakibat berkurangnya konsumen yang datang, yang berarti akan berpengaruh terhadap hasil penjualan yang diperlukan untuk menutup biaya ataupun mengembalikan investasi. Untuk itu seorang pengelola perlu memiliki wawasan yang memadai mengenai produk makanan dan atau minuman yang dijual, termasuk kultur masyarakat konsumen.

Awali dari Menu

Dalam perkembangan bisnis restaurant, produk makanan dan minuman yang diwujudkan dalam menu memegang peran strategis dalam kegiatan operational. Tidak berlebihan kalau ada yang berpendapat everythings in food service operation start from the menu, segala sesuatu dalam kegiatan operational restaurant berawal dari menu.

Pengadaan peralatan masak serta pangaturan tata letak dapur ditentukan berdasarkan menu yang dijual. Demikian pula keperluan karyawan sebagai juru masak, pengadaan bahan, sitem pelayanan termasuk return on investment ( ROI ), diperhitungan berdasarkan menu yang di jual.

Satisfying Customers Overview

Total customer satisfaction is the results of giving customers product quality, service, cleanliness, value, and responding fast to recover customers when something goes wrong.

No matter how hard you try to satisfy your customers, mistakes will happen. What you do about mistakes can make the difference between keeping customers or losing them to competitors. Speed of response is vital. That's why every retaurant management team should have a customer recovery system that ensure a quick, courteous response. After the customer's needs are taken care of, find out what caused the dissatisfaction, then fix the problem you've identified, and adopt the solution into your routine.

Satisfying customers the first time, and quickly recovering them whwn you don't, ensures total customer satisfaction, which generates brand loyalty and increased sales.


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