4 Steps to Simple Social Media Strategy for Business
Start making smarter social media content now with this 4 step digital marketing strategy guide. Cali BBQ Media Founder Shawn Walchef hosted an online social media presentation during the Branded Restaurant Marketing Summit. The main takeaway? Start now, not tomorrow, because it’s easier then you think to promote your business with short-form video on social […]
Toast Company Event Introduces Innovations and Tech for Restaurants
The Toast company introduced a number of exciting products and innovations for restaurants during their Spark event. Spark by Toast brought together hospitality industry and tech leaders to learn about how Toast and its line of products and offerings can help their customers manage and grow their restaurant businesses. The online Toast restaurant innovation event […]
If You Build It, They Still Might Not Come | Chip Klose (Restaurant Marketing Strategy) | DH118
Marketing Strategist Chip Klose knows you have to promote your business online to make it take off. The modern restaurant business is not Field of Dreams. If you build it, they won’t necessarily come. “Thirty years ago, you could just be good,” shrugs Chip Klose on the Digital Hospitality podcast. “Pretty place, good food, good […]
Cal Ripken Jr. of Clubhouse | Guy Clarke (Restaurant Marketing Consultant) | DH102
Restaurant Marketing Consultant Guy Clarke is the Cal Ripken Jr. of Clubhouse. Even in 2021, many of us are still weary of social media, especially when it comes to trying out the latest app like the Clubhouse drop in audio chat platform. Maybe the life of this week’s Digital Hospitality guest Guy Clarke can change […]
Get Over Your Fears and Just Do It | Rev Ciancio (Digital Media and Marketing Strategist) | DH086
The first time marketing maven David “Rev” Ciancio married a couple was on stage at a GWAR concert, the iconic heavy metal band known for their outrageously obscene stage show. “As part of the finale, I pronounced them “Scum and Maggot,” they then took the bride and the groom and fed them to the meat […]
A Maestro of Meat and Marketing | Jason Ganahl (GQue BBQ) | DH079
Jason Ganahl is a Maestro of Meat and Marketing. The GQue BBQ founder’s love for barbecue, people, and sports has allowed him to flourish. To do so, he’s had to network not only to thrive but also to survive. Being outside of the major traditional barbecue markets has made Jason Ganahl hustle hard not just in […]
Fire and Family | Talking with Jason Ganahl of GQue BBQ in Colorado
Jason Ganahl is the founder of GQue BBQ and a father of four. Simply put, Jason Ganahl is a successful and busy man. But being busy didn’t happen overnight. At one point in time, the Colorado father/BBQ maven was a single man working his tail off in the corporate world. As fate would have it, […]
The Evolution of Restaurants is Digital | Walchef on Cantore
To thrive in the modern world, Cali BBQ had to become a digital restaurant. “We learned early on that nobody gave a shit about us,” Cali BBQ owner Shawn Walchef says bluntly on a June 2020 visit to The Cantore Show podcast. “We learned that if we wanted to get people to care about us, […]
Lucha Cantina | The Growth of Online Ordering | DH031
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Joshua Binning’s Lucha Cantina restaurant, staff and community have all seen life turned upside down. Operating in Rockford, Illinois, a town of less than 150,000 residents, the restaurant owner has a pulse on the people and a relationship with the government. Because of this, Joshua Binning linked with […]
Behind the Scenes of Funky Fries and Burgers in San Diego
With gigantic burgers and piles of smothered fries (not to mention the Freak Shakes) Funky Fries and Burgers in San Diego lives up to its funky name. Digital Hospitality host Shawn Walchef and the Cali BBQ Media crew got a Behind the Smoke #bts tour of the Funky Fries and Burgers kitchen with owner Sebastian […]