Restaurant owners can blog? Why certainly they can, or whomever they appoint as the website content creator. It’s understandable if you’re a restaurant owner, that owns a website, and is having problems generating blog ideas.
This post is dedicated to giving blog ideas for restaurants that blog, or are considering on adding blogging to their website. This is part of the Ultimate List of Blog Ideas series.
When the main focus of a restaurant is food, sometimes writing might be hard. However, with restaurants, as long as your blog is focused around the food, the people who come to your establishment, the community nearby, and the people putting together those meals, you should have plenty of content.
However, if that’s still tough, then hopefully this post will help. 🙂
Blog Ideas for Restaurants
- Meet the Chef/ Meet the cook featurette
- Showcase one of the main specials
- Recipes (this can even be done as a membership or paid content)
- History of specific foods used in the restaurant
- Customer spotlight
- Local area events that the restaurant is participating in
- Story behind the idea of the restaurant
- Story behind the making of the menu
- Employee spotlight
- Reviews from critics
- Wine pairing suggestions, in regards to menu items
- Beer pairing suggestions, in regards to menu items
- Frequently asked questions about the restaurant
- Social network handle annoucement
- Meet the Restaurant Owner article
- Restaurant events and the recap of those events(holding specific activities for clubs, or activities for the public)
- Restaurant etiquette posts
- Announce local events that will be nearby restaurant
- Feature local entertainment near restaurant
- Lists with foods related to your restaurant (Example: “Top 15 Delicious…” or “Top 15 Summer time…” or “Top 15… for the Holidays”)
- Pictures of your food (Sometimes a picture can be persuasive.)
- Roundup posts from food bloggers who have posts about food similar to what your restaurant sells
- Share positive local community mentions or press
- Post mentioning a Food blogger who reviewed your restaurant
This list is not set in stone. It could be added to any time. If you’d like to make a suggestion for this list, then you’re welcome to comment below. I am considering most suggestions as this list is intended to be helpful.
If you’re a restaurant owner, let me know if these blog ideas have helped.
Hello Nile!
Being a regular reader of your blog, everytime I find some great articles which somehow help to a majority of people!!
Your list is exceptionally brilliant! It seems every points have been covered by you!
Regards,
Rahul
There are a lot of grateful restaurant owners out there now. How about a post for lawyers?
It’s on my long list to tackle. 😉
All great ideas. These are topics that I would definitely want to read about when looking at a restaurant.
amazing ideas.. 😉 luv it..
Great ideas, Nile! It’s often hard for business owners to think up content marketing ideas – these are great starters!
Nile, you have a great imagination!
This is great and can be done for all types of support services as well, right. You can visualize how all of this being on a blog. They may want to explore creating a buzz. Having a contest with knowledge of the establishment and history of it’s origin. Winner gets a validation for a free meal with family. That will create a huge buzz and unlimited new customers.
Thanks Nile you have our brains started up today!
What a great idea for a blog post. You can do similar for all sorts of niches. With a couple of location based niche sites I worked on, for clients, it was posting about local events that started bringing the readers in. They reached a larger local audience and those interested in the overall topic started coming back.
Restaurants don’t only get a good reputation from the quality of food but from the level of service and friendly atmosphere. So all those background posts about history, staff and chefs are a great idea.
Hi Nile,
Its such a great list that you have prepared. One would surely want to check this out before going to get their blog ideas for restaurants.
Great ideas and definitely useable by other types of businesses that have a direct interface with clients. I love the idea of customer spotlights and meet the chef.
So, I don’t own a restaurant, but I do write for several sites that are in the food industry. This gives me great ideas for posts to submit for them!
I just found your website. What a great resource! Thank you for taking the time to put this together. I am always looking for new ideas.
Janet
@Nile, Meeting with a chef is same as get interviewing some name of your niche, either you are writing for other topic than restaurant, these tips are also helpful for other niche based bloggers Too. Reviews and events are powerful tool for engaging old reader as well as attracting new readers.
What an awesome list of potential ideas for restaurateurs to blog about Nile!
I actually read this excellent post twice!
And each time I kept thinking wow!LOL! I mean your
potential list of extremely viable blogging ideas for restaurateurs!
Especially if they’re going to outsource this particular activity,
they’ll be extremely busy for quite a while thanks to you !LOL!
These are some great tips for food bloggers for sure! I like all those topic ideas and I might use a few on my next restaurant post!
Those are great ideas. I love the creativity. Meeting the chef is a great way to make people feel personally connected to the restaurant.
These would be great ideas for restaurant blogs! I would love to read articles with beer and wine pairings.
I would love to do a meet and great with the chef. We did that once and it was a lot of fun.
Those are all really great ideas. I am sure some people are going to be really inspired by this list.
My ex has a restaurant. I am going to share these ideas with him. I know he’ll appreciate them!
What a great round-up for reference. Super useful for ideas, especially for someone like who doesn’t post about food regularly. This will be a huge time-saver. Thanks!
Great tips.. I am not a restaurant owner but will pass this to my friend who is a chef at his own restaurant
Great list of ideas! I don’t write much about restauran experience but I love blogs that does feature some of the bests.
This is a great list of ideas. Blogging is a great way to connect with customers.
These are great ideas. I know when I go to restaurants as a blogger, I get so nervous I forget everything. I am going to start making a checklist!
this is awesome. thank you.
These are great suggestions Nile. I think a foodie blogger could use some of these suggestions for post ideas as well. Thanks for sharing them!
I am seriously considering starting a food blog! I greatly appreciate this list. It is very helpful in knowing where to start.
I bet restaurant owners would find your article helpful. I often talk food on my blog and about restaurants too, and although I’m not a restaurant owner, I actually got a blog post idea from your list. Thanks. 🙂
These are some great ideas! I’ve introduced myself to the owners and chefs before.