Restaurants · Email marketing

Reach the office admin who books thirty lunches, not a diner's inbox.

Email for a restaurant is for the corporate side: the office lunch order, the team party and the bulk invoice that needs GST on it. GullySales builds the list from the companies nearby and your own bookings, and keeps guest reminders on WhatsApp where people actually read.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What email marketing means

Email marketing is sending planned messages to a list of past and prospective customers who have agreed to hear from you. It suits offers, updates and staying in touch with someone who is not ready to buy yet. GullySales writes and schedules these emails and tracks who opens, clicks and enquires.

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Sales and marketing for restaurants, the overview.

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For restaurants

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

“Diners do not read email, admin teams do”
A family decides at seven in the evening on a phone. A team lunch for thirty is arranged in an inbox at eleven in the morning.
“The GST invoice is the whole conversation”
An office cannot book you without a proper invoice and payment terms, and that question kills more corporate orders than the food ever does.
“December is decided in October”
Office parties get budgeted weeks ahead, and the restaurant that wrote in October is on the list.

What we do

What we deliver for restaurants.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

A list of the offices within reach, built by hand
The companies, tech parks and co-working floors within delivery and walking distance, with the admin or HR contact found properly rather than bought.
Result: You are writing to people who can actually place an order.
An office lunch note with the invoice details in it
Combos, per-head pricing, the delivery window, the minimum order, GST invoicing and payment terms, in one mail an admin can forward to finance.
Result: The question that stops corporate orders is answered upfront.
The year-end party mail sent in October
A party menu, the seating, the private area and the dates still open, written to admin teams before their budgets are committed.
Result: December fills with bookings made in autumn.
Guest reminders kept on WhatsApp, with consent
Birthday and anniversary notes and the weekday offer sent to guests who opted in at the bill, on the channel they read, with an easy way to stop.
Result: Regulars hear from you without being annoyed.
A note to last year's party organiser
A short mail to whoever booked a party with you last year, a few weeks before the same season comes round, with what has changed on the menu.
Result: The kitty party comes back without being chased.
Opens, replies and orders reported
Which mails were opened, which brought replies and which turned into orders or bookings, split between the corporate and guest lists, against the baseline.
Result: You learn which list earns its time.

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How the result is measured

Open rate
Click rate
Enquiries from email

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

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What must be in place first

What a restaurant needs in place before it emails the offices and organisers nearby.

A list built by hand from real offices: Use companies you have delivered to, hosted, or whose admin has spoken to you. Note the person, the office, and the order type. Do not scrape directories or buy a list of local company contacts.
A named admin contact, not an info@ address: Find who actually orders lunch or books the party: usually HR, admin or an executive assistant. A mail to a generic company address is read by nobody with a budget.
GST and invoice details ready to attach: Offices ask for a GST invoice first. Keep the GSTIN, legal name, address and payment terms ready in the first mail so an admin can forward it to accounts without writing back.
A sender identity guests recognise: Send from the owner or manager by name on your own domain, with the restaurant name and address in the signature. Set SPF and DKIM so the mail does not land in spam.
Consent for guest mail, kept separate: A guest who booked a table did not agree to corporate pitches. Keep guest reminders on their own list with consent noted, and keep the office list apart.
An opt-out and a reply path: Add a one-line unsubscribe to each mail, and make sure replies reach the person who can confirm a headcount, a date and a menu.

Who it is for

This is written for these restaurants.

Family restaurants and multi-cuisine dining
South Indian vegetarian restaurants and darshinis
Biryani, kebab and non-vegetarian specialists
Regional cuisine restaurants
Casual dining and bar restaurants
Quick service restaurants and food courts
Cloud kitchens and delivery-only brands
Office canteens and food service operators
Multi-outlet restaurant groups

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

You hold no office contacts and no one will collect them by hand, so there is no list to write to.
You cannot raise a GST invoice for an office order, so an office lunch mail would promise what the admin team needs and you cannot give.

How it works

How the email marketing work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

1
Understand your list
We review who is on the list, how they got there, what they agreed to, and how long since they last heard from you.
2
Audit past sends
We read past campaign reports, your sending domain settings and any spam complaints to see what has and has not worked.
3
Segment and plan
The list is split into groups and a sending calendar is agreed, with a rule for unsubscribes and quiet addresses.
4
Write and set up
Emails are written, checked and scheduled in your email tool. Welcome and nurture emails are set to send on a trigger where that fits.
5
Measure and adjust
We read clicks, replies, enquiries and complaints by segment, and change subject lines, timing and content to match.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 0, foundation. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.

Step 1
Sales audit
Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.
Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.
Step 2 · you are here
Sales process design
One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.
Start here if every salesperson sells differently.
Step 3
Sales management
A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.
Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Tell us what you need

Is email worth it for a single outlet?

For corporate lunches and parties, yes, because that is where those bookings are arranged. For diners, use WhatsApp with consent, since almost nobody opens a restaurant newsletter.

Can we buy a list of local company contacts?

Do not. Bought lists get marked as spam and take your domain with them, so the admin who would have ordered never sees the next mail. Build it from buildings you can walk to.

Do offices read lunch or party offers by email?

The admin or HR person who orders does, because they need something to forward to accounts and a manager. They will not open a generic offer, so name the headcount, the menu, the date and the invoice details, and keep it to a few lines.

Should the email show the full menu or only a set lunch?

Send a short set menu with a price per head, a minimum headcount and the cut-off for changes. A full menu makes an admin choose and delay. Attach the full menu as a file for anyone who wants it, and give a number to call.

How much does it cost?

There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.

How long is the contract?

The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.

How soon will we see results?

It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.

Who will actually do the work?

The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.

What do you need from us?

Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.

What if we are not happy with the work?

Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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