Is your Restaurant found by Hungry Customers Today?

People are now asking online, “Where should I eat today?”

Yes, they search for restaurants online using their desktop PCs, laptops, tablets and smart phones on search engines, local directories, and social networks.

Do you come up in these searches? Are you active on social media?

When consumers were asked what businesses they’re looking for when conducting specific business searches, sixty-seven percent (67%) responded with restaurants.

Restaurants continue to dominate the local search landscape with thirty percent (30%) searching via mobile phones, twenty-eight percent (28%) via tablets, and twenty-four percent (24%) via PCs.

Seventy-eight percent (78%) of your potential customers read online customer reviews for restaurants.

Do you have positive ratings on local review sites?

Ninety-three percent (93%) of your potential customers use their mobile devices to find a restaurant.

Ninety-five percent (95%) of them also use local review sites regularly to find restaurant phone numbers.

While ninety percent (90%) of them also use their mobile devices to check out the menu.

More importantly, mobile users who search for restaurants have an eighty percent (80%) purchase rate.

And not only that, the initial research-to-purchase cycle is fast with sixty-four percent (64%) of consumers looking to complete their purchase within an hour.

And here is something to chew on; hungry consumers are turning to their smartphones and tablets to place orders online for pick-up or delivery, with more than two-thirds (2/3) or sixty-nine percent (69%) saying they have ordered online via their mobile devices.