Show Customer Appreciation with a Thank You Gift!

Every day in your business you'll want to make sure to thank customers with a smile and word of thanks for their business and loyalty. There are some days that lend themselves to extra special opportunities to show customer appreciation in your restaurant such as your business anniversary, Valentines Day, Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Christmas and Chanuka, and Customer Appreciation Days.

Here you'll find the best ideas for thank you gifts, ways to show customer appreciation and they won't break the bank but, will set you apart from your competition. Why not host a monthly Customer Appreciation Day to be unique, be different, help your customers remember you, set yourself apart from your competition! It's a win-win dining experience. Keep reading our ideas below:



** Discount coupons - customers love to save money just like you do. Give your customers a discount coupon for their visit today or to use on their next visit to your business. Make your own coupons on your computer.

** Fresh Flowers - Carnations. Show customer appreciation with lovely colorful fresh flowers, a carnation for each of your customers at less than 50 cents each! Keep them in water in your cooler until needed and these carnations will stay fresh all week.

** Give chocolates to your loyal customers! Place them on each dinner plate before seating customers to enhance their dining experience or give a chocolate treat with the bill. Either way your customers will remember this special treat you gave and will increase their loyalty to you for being unique!
 Some of our favorite customer appreciation chocolates, in bulk to save money, shipped right to your door so you can continue working in your restaurant:
     Chocolate covered cherries
     Creamy Milk Chocolate Hearts
     Milk Chocolate Smiley Face Discs
     Lindt Truffles Dark Chocolate
     Liquor Filled Chocolates

** Give a Chocolate Gift Basket raffled off each month. For each visit to your restaurant, each customer gets one entry into your gift basket drawing. Use these raffle tickets. Make sure you notify the winner and give the gift basket away. No cheating or you're sure to lose customers. Give a new basket away each month! Your customers will love your ideas and you'll grow your customer base and win over new customers with more loyalty. The cost of a monthly chocolate gift basket is outweighed by the increase in customers plus, it's a business deduction.

** Free dessert or free appetizer if you can offer a yummy treat for your customers that won't break the bank. Only you know your costs and how much it's worth giving away free food. Oftentimes, it's better to give a gift of free flowers or free candy that we've shown above.

  I hope you use these ideas to show customer appreciation in your restaurant. You'll be glad you did and you'll improve your customer loyalty when you take steps that make you different from your competition.

  Cheers!