News Release for 150-Plus Tips on How to Attract & Keep Solo Diners, 2nd Edition Date: August 10, 2009 For Immediate Release CONTACT: Marya Charles Alexander at 1-800-299-1079 Outside the United States: (Your Country Calling Code) + 1 + 760-720-1011 or editor@solodining.com ************************************** “A Stimulus Package for Restaurants? About Time!” Says Marketing Expert Weary of discounting and price-cutting? Restaurateurs — rejoice! It's time to get back to doing what you do best - cultivating potential customers! (People can cook just so many meals at home — even great ones! — before they long to get out and about for something more.) 150-PLUS TIPS ON HOW TO ATTRACT AND KEEP SOLO DINERS, 2nd Edition — is now available to help you take aim at a long-neglected hungry market. This market is HUGE! Solo diners include singles, business and pleasure travelers, very-marrieds whose spouses are out-of -town, divorced, widowed and MORE: Sooner or later EVERYONE faces the challenged of eating alone. Updated, expanded and enriched with commentary from the internet, 150-PLUS TIPS, has been written with busy restaurateurs in mind. View any section or devour the entire booklet for fresh insight into attracting and keeping solos as repeat customers — alone or accompanied by friends or colleagues Sections include: Solo Savvy in General — “Seating” to “greeting” suggestions; Communal Table Logistics — What you need to know to attract solos (and couples) to communal table dining; Counter/Bar Logistics — Mirrors & serpentine bars — can they work for you? plus a special Q & A on working with the media. These are tools — emphasis: low or no-cost — to put into play today! Author Marya Charles Alexander believes that restaurateurs are ready to sink their teeth into cultivating markets rather than cutting prices. “An untapped market is a terrible waste - especially during economically-challenged times.” The 49 page 150-Plus Tips On How to Attract & Keep Solo Diners, 2nd Edition (1st published in 1996) is now available as a PDF file for $19.95. See sample pages for FREE. They are located at http://www.solodining.com/samplepgs.html You can order online by going to http://www.solodining.com/150-plus-tips.html. Major credit cards are accepted through PayPal.