Theme Night Ideas for Restaurants
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- Take it underground
- Believe in Magic
- Partner with big businesses
- Give your restaurant a fantasy theme
- Find creative ways to make guests put away their cell phones
- Wax poetic with your menu item names
- Offer a tasting room
- Art Gallery
- Do away with the brick and mortar, and focus solely on delivery
- 70s Night
- Pre-Game Pep Rally
- Charity Guest Bartenders
- So, host a live trivia event! It’s insanely easy with Buzztime
- Take a look at these quirky dating events for inspiration when planning something a bit different
- Open Mic: Upgraded
- Do away with waiters completely
- Hire a masseuse to give chair massages
- Work with local artists to amplify your brand
- Just be sure to schedule the band for after your dinner rush – no one likes yelling over dinner
- Take beloved pop culture restaurants and make them real
- Open Mic Night: DJs
- As one of your go-to bar and restaurant promotion ideas, “gamify” Open Mic night
- Bring in a Celeb
- Create restaurant promotion ideas and specials for your richest appetizers and best booze
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- Combine food and beauty
- Partner with other restaurants
- Serve draft coffee
- TV theme nights
- Remember: food and drink can be medicinal
- Give your guests a show
- Use the view to your advantage
- Host a “joke off” event
- Give $2 off any drink if the patron is donning a hideous sweater
- Moonlight as another concept
- Try a pop-up restaurant
- Open multiple concepts in one location
- Invite guests into your home
- As one of your bar and restaurant promotion ideas, host a VIP “gallery opening” on your slowest night
- Add animals to the ambiance
- Add function to your design
- Invite guests to climb a tree to get to your food
- Celebrate a Milestone
- Poker Tournament
- April 1: April Fool’s Day Joke Competition
- Open a chef incubator
- Sponsor a Sports Team
- Flip the speakeasy on its head
- Live Trivia Night
- Go to infinity… and beyond
- Use the decor to delight your guests
- Have a service guarantee
- Allow guests to pay what they want
- Most stations require payment, but you can always offer trade instead
- Team up with local farms
- Business Networking
- Turn off the lights
- And your bar sales will benefit from the nervous attendees who need a little liquid courage before the event kicks off
- Do one thing… really well
- Radio Remote
- Battle of the Bartenders
- Let guests pour their own Guinness
- Make food waste profitable
- Even if you don’t succeed, you’ll get crowds – and media coverage – for the attempt
- Just Dance
- Got extra space outdoors? Fire up the grill to create a tailgate vibe
- Get creative with the seating
- Open Mic: Comedy
- Make your restaurant or bar exclusive… extremely exclusive
- Around the world nights
- Singles
- Black Friday Escape
- Millennials
- Partner with charity organizations
- Make your favorite movie into a restaurant
- Open a tribute bar or restaurant
- Make the history of your building work for you
- Really simplify your pricing
- Take your restaurant on the road
- Give your servers the opportunity to lift their voices
- Couples
- Give your restaurant a theme
- Appreciate your staff
- Break a Record
- Reward anyone who eats it all within a set time period with a free t-shirt
- Mid-January: Resolution Ruiner Party
- Offer self-serve beer
- February 2: Groundhog’s Day
- Give your guests a mission
- Arts and Crafts
- Allow guests to build their own meal
- March 14: Pi Day
- Specific Professions
- Take a well-known ingredient, and do something totally different with it
- Take your guests to another world
- Partner with local breweries
- Schedule your theme nights for Tuesdays and Thursdays when Buzztime’s nationally scheduled Glory Daze trivia runs
- Test your more shareable menu items
- Or, scrap your menu completely and instead totally personalize the experience
- Invite a charity to send a guest bartender or two – with all tips and 10% of sales going to that charity
- Early October: Oktoberfest
- Reduce overhead by offering your restaurant as a coworking space over the day
- Give your guests taste tests
- Go all in with prix fixe
- Fantasy League Headquarters
- Capture millennials with arcades
- Speed Dating Nights
- Create interactive menu items
- You’ve already got the great food and drinks, you just need the mic and the comedians
- Throwback rap is popular with trendy millennials and Generation Xers
- Make it all about the kids
- Nearby Office Employees
- August 26: National Dog Day
- Let guests float on water as they eat
- Big Eats
- You’ll turn the tables on slow nights
- Be Dramatic
- Go cashless
- Guests receive supplies and instruction to create potted plants and terrariums
- 80s Fever Night
- Band Together
- Call it a “Day at the Ball Park” and turn on the baseball games
- Combine food and movies
- Put out water and offer complimentary dog treats
- Post bar training videos and chef videos online
- Be the “Home” Of
- Invite guests to dine on a train… or a bus
- Plant and Pour
- Offer bar and restaurant promotions around the drinks they whip up
- Trivia League
- Invite the team to your place after games for special league-only offers
- Make your restaurant an art installation
- Beer pong
- Turn the kitchen into a stage
- Offer free wings and fries from 5-7pm
- Get in on the trend
- Mid-December: Ugly Christmas Sweater Party
- Create food that reflects the area
- Bar Olympics
- But don’t focus on the obvious holidays
- May 4: Star Wars Day
- Turn guests into patients
- Ask your liquor distributor if they can send a wine rep to do a tasting
- Families
- Seniors
- Make eating at your restaurant a holy experience
- Bartenders can offer 2-for-1 specials on all rum drinks
- Tap Takeover
- Host a stoplight party
- July 21: Hot Dog Day
- Dart League
- Keep your guests on their toes with a happy hour that sells all "needs to go" items
- Pitch it to the theater as a promotional event: a few of their actors can perform one scene from an upcoming play
- Use history as inspiration
- September 19: Talk Like a Pirate Day
- 90s Rap Night
- Busy Moms
- Feature rotating chefs
- Test kitchen nights
