How to keep your Restaurant or Catering Facility's Message On Hold program up to date, interesting, and engaging year-round.

1. 12 Months of On Hold Marketing
for Restaurants and Catering
A guide for keeping Message On
Hold content up to date,
informative, and effective.
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2. January
• Explain your “light”
options to attract
customers with New
Year’s Resolutions to
maintain a healthy life
style
• Inform callers of changes
in hours after the
holidays
• Announce upcoming
events for the next
month

3. February
• Give Valentine’s Day
information, including
prices, hours, and
options
• Explain winter specials
and the seasonal
produce they include
• Promote lunch specials
for businesses and
schools with February
Break

4. March
• Promote special events
to get people out of the
house before Spring has
official sprung
• Include availability for
holiday gatherings
• Update content about
menu offerings to
include Spring options

5. April
• Announce the opening of
outdoor dining spaces
• Include catering
availability for local
businesses for events
such as Administrative
Professionals Day
• Start promoting
Mother’s Day menus and
schedules

6. May
Include complete
information about
upcoming, seasonally
relevant happenings:
– Mother’s Day
– Father’s Day
– Graduations
– Prom Dinners
– Weddings

7. June
• Switch your menu
information to
Summer offerings
• Highlight your kid-
friendly options, as
school is now ending
• Include location and
directions if you are
hoping to attract
vacationers.

8. July
Promote summer
events you’re hosting
and participating in:
– Bar-be-ques
– Block parties
– Street fairs

9. August
• Announce your
participation in
summer festivals, like
town celebration days
and County/State
Fairs.
• Encourage diners to
come in to try your
summer menu before
fall begins.

10. September
• Promote back to
school specials an
autumnal harvest
dinners
• Start hyping
Halloween events.

11. October
• Promote your costume
contests, Halloween
promotions, and
neighborhood trick-or-
treat program
participation
• Encourage callers to
make holiday
reservations and
catering requests early.

12. November
• Announce your
holiday hours for
Thanksgiving and
beyond
• Give information
about catering for
corporate and
personal holiday
parties

13. December
• Wish callers
“Season’s Greetings”
and “Happy New
Year”
• Include your holiday
scheduling
• Encourage
reservations for New
Year’s Eve

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