Rachel Levy: Social Media & Marketing

I have an interview tomorrow with a restaurant group in Boston.  There was no job description posted online for the job, so I don’t know much about what they are looking for.  But, you better believe I’m going to bring up social media as a way to market their restaurants. (of course I would need to outline the objectives of using social media first!) Here are a few quick ideas I have:

• Create half hour cooking segments by the chefs and post on YouTube and other video sites.
• Start a blog about hot new trends in food, restaurants, drinks, etc. There’s so much to write about in this industry!
• Post the restaurant’s menu on their website and allow customers to rate the dishes, and make comments. They can also make suggestions for a dish they would like to see added to the menu (that could turn into a huge program where you select one recipe each quarter to be the featured customer… party? PR? named recipe?)
• Open a Twitter account and a Facebook Fan page to communicate with customers and potential customers

Any other ideas come to the top of your head? Please share them below! Don’t worry, I will NOT take credit for them, as I will definitely be passing my blog address on to them!