For restaurant owners · Marketing and reviews
Write the weekly specials or event post
A post for this week's specials or a music night, written from your own notes for your social pages, your email list and the sign by the door.
The prompt
Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and fill in each part in [BRACKETS]. Restaurant owners and whoever posts for the restaurant.
I run a restaurant. Every week I mean to post the specials or the next event, and every week it slides to after close. I want a post written from my notes that sounds like us. What I have: - This week's specials or the event, in my own words: [THIS WEEK] - Where the post goes, such as our social pages, our email list or the sign by the door: [WHERE IT GOES] - Two or three posts we have done before that I liked: [PAST POSTS] What I want: 1. Write one post for each place I listed, sized for that place. 2. Lead with what a regular would care about most: the dish, the day or the night. 3. Say when and how to come: the days it runs, whether to book, and how. 4. Write it the way we talk, using our past posts as the guide. Rules: - Write a draft for me to read. Do not send or post anything. - Use only what I gave you. If something is missing, ask me instead of guessing. - Never quote a price, promise a table or claim anything I did not give you. - No health or diet claims about a dish, and no lines like "best in town" unless a guest said it and I gave it to you. - Leave out guests' names and photos unless I tell you they said yes. Leave out guests' card details and anything about their health. Give me back: - One post for each place I listed - A one-line version the host stand can tell guests - Anything you needed and did not have
When to use it
Early in the week, when the specials are set or an event is coming up and the post keeps sliding to after close.
When not to
Do not use it to make health or diet claims about a dish, or to name a band, a farm or a guest without their okay.
What to paste in
- [THIS WEEK]: The specials or the event in plain words: what, which days, what time, and whether to book.
- [WHERE IT GOES]: Each place the post will appear, and roughly how long it can be there.
- [PAST POSTS]: Two or three posts you wrote before that sound like you.
Never paste
- Guests' names or photos without their okay
- Your email list or any guest contact details
A filled-in example
Sample. Fictional business, fictional client.
THIS WEEK: Thursday is perch fry night, lake perch with fries and slaw; Saturday a bluegrass trio plays the patio from 7 to 10; reservations open, walk-ins at the bar. WHERE IT GOES: Our social pages and the weekly email to about 900 regulars. PAST POSTS: "Fish fry is back Thursday. Come hungry." / "Patio's open, band's on, see you Saturday."
What you should get back
- A post for each place you listed, in your voice
- The dish or the night up front, then when and how to come
- A one-line version the host stand can say
- No prices, no health claims and nothing you did not give
What stays with you
The prompt writes a draft. You decide what happens to it, and nothing should reach a guest until you have read it. Decisions about money stay with a person every time, and so do health questions and complaints. When KeenHand builds a routine like this, every message carries the same four decisions: Automate, Approve, Revise, Reject.
Related
- Reply to this week's reviews, good and bad. Replies to this week's reviews: a specific thank-you for the kind ones and a calm answer for the hard ones, with nothing posted until you read it.
- Find your slowest shifts from last week's covers. A plain read of last week's covers by shift from your own reports, with the slowest shifts named and the questions left for you to decide.
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