Another restaurant marketing idea is running a contest in giving away a free meal per day for an entire year why do this well it's an amazing offer it grabs attention and who doesn't want to sign up for a free meal per day for an entire year now are you going to lose money running this type of promotion not one penny and here's exactly how I run this set up a one page lead capture website to collect people's information in order sign them up drive traffic they're using Facebook ads and getting your staff to sign people up in-house and it make this really profitable for you make everybody a winner by giving them some kind of discount when they sign up and then give them seven days to use it to create some quick sales and get them in your door