Vigor moves offices!
After having hung out with our pals at Fratelli Studio for nearly three years, it came time to find our own spot to call home. Through months of vigorous searches with the help of TenantBase, we were able to find that home nearly across the street at a building called the Glassworks. As of June […]
2018’s Restaurant Instagram Wins
Happy New Year everyone! As we look back at 2018, we took notice to some of our clients who were absolutely exceptional at leveraging Instagram. Instagram offers so much value as a long-form ongoing storytelling platform that increases your brand’s reach and ability to optimize frequency. It’s THE best way to tell your story day-in […]
Joseph lends his restaurant branding expertise to Vox & Washingtonian
Principal, Joseph Szala, lends his expertise to two articles about restaurant branding and naming. The first article discusses the nuances of restaurant naming and how it pertains to a new fast casual restaurant in Washington, DC. The second, published on Vox, speculates the real reasons for Hooters’ decline. Is it the uniform? The format? Millennials’ […]
Revolutionizing Restaurant Brand Experiences – Joseph’s talk at the FED Summit
I had the honor of speaking to a fantastic group of food service and equipment professionals this September in Chicago, Illinois. The focus of my talk was on the future, distant and near, of restaurant brand experiences, and how they’re changing. From bots to 3D printed food, I posed serious questions on the roles of our […]
Joseph appears on Grow Fearlessly Webinar to talk 5 tips for building your brand
Branding is one of the most misconceived labels in business today. There are thousands of books on the topic, and ten times as many ideas of what it is and isn’t. Rather than get mired in the details and minutiae of the definition, I lay out five lessons derived from famous bull parables from around […]
Farewell, Tony
If someone asked me to list 10 people I’d love to spend time with, Anthony Bourdain would have easily been top five. (In all honesty, many people have asked me, and Tony was in the top five.) Unfortunately, I never had the honor, and now I never will besides time spent binge watching No Reservations […]
Here’s the real restaurant marketing silver bullet
There is a burning need in restaurant marketing. I hear about it daily. If I distill it down to one word, it’d be “results.” It seems that so many restaurateurs, brand managers, and C-level executives can’t seem to ace effective marketing. And so the conversations I have, or overhear, are ultimately akin to these one-liners: […]
Super Bowl Advertising’s Winner? It’s a Tide Ad.
Unless you’re living in a sans-sports world, you were watching the Super Bowl last night. The star of the night wasn’t only Philadelphia, it was Tide. Yes, Tide, the laundry detergent. In the myriad of Super Bowl ad spots Tide stood out with a fresh (so meta!) approach and creative delivery. In fact, they not […]
How to brand a restaurant
Before learning how to brand a restaurant, you first have to know the definition of branding. There is an astounding amount of misconception surrounding what “branding” actually means. Professionals in the creative industry are some of the worst offenders. “We’ll do your branding” and “we branded that restaurant” are phrases you hear and read often… […]
New ways for food court brands to thrive in malls – QSR Magazine
Originally published by QSR Magazine For many of us, the food court was the first place to go in a mall. Right in the middle of bustling big box anchors and niche stores filled with everything from menswear to kids’ toys, the cool kids gathered in an epicenter of quick-service restaurants to see and be […]