David B Townsend
Food Styling Essentials for Social Media
By investing time and effort into food styling, you can transform these images into captivating visuals that can enhance your customer count
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David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20214 min
Basic Wedding Food Planning
Many venues either require a full-service caterer or use of their own on-site kitchen to provide food services. Once you're comfortable with
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David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20213 min
Become an Event Destination- An Asset to your Community
Event Management takes skills in marketing and logistics, If you're a restaurant, B & B or winery potential niche market if you plan ahead.
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David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20211 min
Introducing: Ambrosia-the food blog
David Townsend follows restaurants, food products, and marketing trends. His career began on the Monterey Peninsula as a Bartender...
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David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20212 min
Logistics for Outdoor Events
If you're a restauranteur or boutique hotel looking to expand into the lucrative Wedding / Event business in Northern California, a ...
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David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20215 min
Amazon & Whole Foods- this changes everything in food service-
You can't be in the food business and not have prepared, easily combined meal portions "to go." Food service is now about more than seated
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David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20216 min
Off-Site Event Planning- Logistics 101
In organizing the event, several steps need to have started days, weeks, or even months ahead of time. It's the “Day-of” the Event that I
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David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20212 min
Townsend's Consulting-Fee
fees are negotiable- travel vs home time is billed at different rates
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David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20211 min
Photography for Social Media
create a dedicated area somewhere that can be preset with good lighting and offer a variety of backdrops, you could plate food and shoot.
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David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20211 min
Web Design using WIX
choose your best suited template and build the initial site without you having the learning curve of navigating new a software program.
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David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20212 min
10 Priorities in Restaurant Operations-an Evaluation
operations check list for restaurants
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David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20219 min
Branding is just the first step in Marketing a Restaurant
Visuals show off your food. Branding has to do with quality of your photo as well as your food.
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David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20212 min
What Branding Means in Food Service?
Your 'Brand' communicates your value and appeal to a potential guest. Let them know what makes your business unique. If you're known for...
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David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20212 min
Importance of Food Styling for Restaurants
It begins before any element of cooking begins. Deciding how to build the presentation will dictate the methods and the plating.
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David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20213 min
Service: Your Competitive Edge in Foodservice
In a recent article from Jillian Kramer writing for food & wine.com ( March 23, 2018) talks about the dynamic changes coming to the...
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David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20214 min
Restaurateurs: 3 Fundamental Marketing Functions
3 TIPS, 3 FUNDAMENTAL MARKET FUNCTIONS, Signature Menu Items, Run High Food Costs, Design Visually for Social Media.
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David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20214 min
Tilapia, Not on my Table!
According to some studies farm raised Tilapia is more detrimental to heart health than eating bacon or a hamburger.
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David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20214 min
Elements of Visual Marketing
Here is a punch list of visual elements to consider when developing a marketing plan. Beginning with store décor, merchandising, and color
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David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20213 min
Menu Descriptions Create Expectation and Exploration
Antonio Ayestan caters the biggest outdoor event at Empire Mine SHP, for Sierra Nevada Hospital Foundation. His Filet is always a hit
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David B Townsend
Jul 8, 20214 min
Daunting Tasks of Creating and Marketing a Restaurant
Creating a restaurant is Daunting, It requires an awareness of food and design trends, technology; sales tracking, costs, and marketing.
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