Is the coronavirus (COVID-19) keeping diners cooped up at home, and out of your restaurant? Since the outbreak, operators have seen a rise in demand for food delivery and a decline in dine-in numbers. As an F&B operator, this presents you with a unique opportunity to enhance your food delivery menu—focusing on meals that can be delivered to customers who will enjoy your dishes in the comfort (and safety) of home.
Here are a few useful tips for increasing the demand of your food delivery offerings.
Highlight the immunity-boosting aspect of your dishes
Increase sales of specific dishes (and your restaurant as a whole) by appealing to the health-conscious side of diners who prefer having their meals at home. Here’s how you can do so:
- Identify a selection of dishes that are great for building immunity, then group these dishes and place them at the top of your menu—preferably under an “Immunity Boost” section to draw attention.
- Highlight the aspects of these dishes that make them great for the immune system by adding their benefits to each dish’s description.
- Work with food delivery operators to promote your selection of immunity-boosting dishes.
Provide great value with set meals
Customers appreciate good value, and set meals represent fantastic value for money. Set meals also make purchase decisions easy, as diners can get food, drinks and even a side in one set, rather than having to purchase them separately and incurring additional charges.
Be sure to include set meal options for groups of all sizes. The golden rule of a good food delivery menu is to make the purchase decision simple, so customers will go from menu selection to order confirmation quickly, without looking at another restaurant’s menu before purchasing from yours.
A good selection of choices should (at least) include:
- Individual set meals
- Set meals for two
- Bundled sets and feasts for a family of 4 to 6 persons
Healthy, nutritious meal ideas for your food delivery menu
All the dishes below (except the Western meal) are best when paired with white or wholegrain rice.
Set Meal for One (Western)
Soup:
Mushroom Soup with Truffle Cream Foam
Main:
Pasta with Mussel, Tomato and Olives
Drink:
Yellow Tropical Fruit Tea
Set Meal for One (Chinese)
Appetiser:
Beetroot Black Fungus Salad with Citrus and Garlic Dressing
Main:
Stir Fried Chicken with Honey Soy and Asian Greens
Drink:
Hot Tamarind Tea
Set Meal for Two
Soup:
Double Boil Oxtail, Burdock, Black Bean Soup
Side:
Wheatgrass Tofu with Royale Chives, Beansprout & Shimeiji Mushroom
Main:
Steamed Cod Fish with Garlic Tamarind Sauce
Set Meal for 4 to 6 persons
Soup:
Double Pork Rib, Black Garlic, Cordyceps, Radix & Red Dates Soup
Main:
Vermicelli Pancake with Luffa, Beancurd, Bamboo Pith & Shiitake Mushroom
Main:
Herbal Drunken Prawns
Main:
Stir Fried Chicken with Honey Soy and Asian Greens
Ensure your food delivery options exceed expectations
Your food delivery menu shouldn’t simply be a digital version of your restaurant’s dine-in or takeaway menus. When it comes to winning the food delivery game, everything counts. These are a few quick tips:
- Select a menu that delivers well (and fast!)
- Choose appetising photos to entice customers
- Use quality, leakproof, branded packaging
- Offer promotions with your delivery partners
- Deliver promptly and punctually
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