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Restaurant positioning: how to stand apart from the competition

The place you hold in the guest's mind. The three types of positioning, the three most common mistakes and the five routes of experiential marketing.

Daro CastelloBy Daro CastelloOctober 27, 20262 min read
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El posicionamiento es el lugar de preferencia que ocupa una marca en la mente de los consumidores frente a la competencia. Hay dos: el actual, que es lo que la gente ya piensa de vos, y el deseado, que es lo que querés que piense. Todo el trabajo está en acercar uno al otro.

Formas de posicionarse

Los tres pasos

  1. Identificar ventajas competitivas: tienen que ser importantes, distintivas, comunicables, difíciles de copiar, asequibles y rentables.
  2. Elegir cuáles usar, sin caer en los tres errores de abajo.
  3. Comunicarlas de forma clara, y que todo el negocio las sostenga: lo que decís tiene que coincidir con lo que el cliente vive.
ErrorQué pasa
SubposicionamientoTransmitís una idea vaga de tus ventajas y nadie recuerda por qué elegirte.
SobreposicionamientoPrometés más de lo que das y el cliente sale decepcionado.
Posicionamiento confusoComunicás demasiados atributos, o mal, y nadie entiende qué sos.

Marketing de experiencias: las cinco vías

Hoy el cliente valora cada vez más la experiencia que el plato. En la escuela veíamos cinco formas de construirla:

Si sentís que tu local no se diferencia, en Celestia Management trabajamos el posicionamiento junto con el concepto y la carta.

Positioning is the place of preference a brand holds in consumers' minds compared with the competition. There are two: the current one, which is what people already think of you, and the desired one, which is what you want them to think. All the work lies in bringing one closer to the other.

Ways to position yourself

The three steps

  1. Identify competitive advantages: they must be important, distinctive, communicable, hard to copy, affordable and profitable.
  2. Choose which ones to use, avoiding the three mistakes below.
  3. Communicate them clearly, with the whole business backing them: what you say has to match what the guest experiences.
MistakeWhat happens
UnderpositioningYou convey a vague idea of your advantages and nobody remembers why to choose you.
OverpositioningYou promise more than you deliver and the guest leaves disappointed.
Confused positioningYou communicate too many attributes, or badly, and nobody understands what you are.

Experiential marketing: the five routes

Today guests value the experience more and more than the plate alone. At school we studied five ways to build it:

If you feel your place doesn't stand out, at Celestia Management we work on positioning together with the concept and the menu.

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