Many restaurant tech startups struggle with scaling their business beyond initial leads. Founders often face difficulties in converting cold calls and other outbound methods into paying customers, leading to stagnation in growth.
This problem affects startup founders in the restaurant tech industry, leading to limited business growth, financial strain, and potential failure of the startup.
Pain Points
- Difficulty in converting cold calls and walk-ins
- High cost per lead with meta ads
- Hesitation from restaurant owners despite attractive offers
- Lack of proven methods for scalable outbound strategies
- Uncertainty in the effectiveness of current marketing efforts
hi everyone I've built a ai agent for restaurants that is currently being used by 2 restaurants where I am. these first leads were friends of mine, and i ran the idea by them first before building. so they were easy to convert and from data its genuinely helping them bring in more revenue as im converting missed calls for them. however, this is my first SaaS adventure and first business. i am stuck in finding a proven method to scale. i will highlight my current plan and what ive done so far: \- cold calling and walking in to restaurants, this hasnt converted much and ive done around 100 restaurants. it has gotten me lots of contacts tho and might convert in future \- i have started to post reels, with the aim of building out my IG for better conversions from... \- meta ads. i only ran briefly but got some leads, although very expensive $/lead. these might go somewhere but again in that limbo phase of waiting on the restaurant owner to decide while they check other options, get less busy, etc. will be running again very soon, especially with new content ive been making on IG \- current offer is a 14 day free trial, only converting to paid plan if i brought them in more bookings than the value of my service. even with this offer a lot of restaurant owners seem hesitant, unless my delivery is poor would be great to get some feedback on a repeatable way to do outbound that actually has some decent conversion. i feel quite stuck on this atm, hence reaching out. thanks!
hi everyone I've built a ai agent for restaurants that is currently being used by 2 restaurants where I am. these first leads were friends of mine, and i ran the idea by them first before building. so they were easy to convert and from data its genuinely helping them bring in more revenue as im converting missed calls for them. however, this is my first SaaS adventure and first business. i am stuck in finding a proven method to scale. i will highlight my current plan and what ive done so far: \- cold calling and walking in to restaurants, this hasnt converted much and ive done around 100 restaurants. it has gotten me lots of contacts tho and might convert in future \- i have started to post reels, with the aim of building out my IG for better conversions from... \- meta ads. i only ran briefly but got some leads, although very expensive $/lead. these might go somewhere but again in that limbo phase of waiting on the restaurant owner to decide while they check other options, get less busy, etc. will be running again very soon, especially with new content ive been making on IG \- current offer is a 14 day free trial, only converting to paid plan if i brought them in more bookings than the value of my service. even with this offer a lot of restaurant owners seem hesitant, unless my delivery is poor would be great to get some feedback on a repeatable way to do outbound that actually has some decent conversion. i feel quite stuck on this atm, hence reaching out. thanks!