Restaurant Discovery on Twitter
I have been noticing a trend on my twitter account @katemorris. I get new followers on a fairly regular basis, but most are spam, so I don’t pay the emails any mind. So why not turn off the notification emails you ask? Do I just like to see my follower number go up? Nope. (No really!)
There are sometimes that people/businesses follow me that I know and want to follow when I see their names. Just the other day, someone I thought I was following added me and I had no idea I wasn’t following them until I looked them up. Sorry again @WarrenWhitlock 
But that’s not the point … the others I have been running across are restaurants. There have been a few in Austin that have added me and gotten some business as a result. One is @kahunastikibar. They added me and tweet discounts and specials that get my mouth watering. So when it’s time for lunch, I have inspiration on where to go. And that is what happened. That day, I visited them for their Monday 2 for 1 special.
So for the restaurants out there, get cracking. No, not eggs. 
Get on twitter. Find the influencers in your metro area and follow away. Twitter Grader from HubSpot is one of a number of places to get this info. You never know who might visit and start talking about you.
And points go to @SagraAustin for doing the same and inspiring this post.
One response to "Restaurant Discovery on Twitter"
You bring up a good point. @finleyslakeway has received hundreds of dollars in business just from me because they followed me before they opened. And just last week, I noticed an okonomiyaki (Japanese pizza) delivery service (@OsakaSoul) in Austin was following me. Within 48 hours, not only had I tried their okonomiyaki, but I had blogged about it on my website, giving them even more exposure.