Restaurant Marketing and Delivery With Ron Patel

posted by David Wolf on Feb 8, 2009 | Comments (1) | Permalink | Trackback URL

Our guest on this segment of the Smallbiz Brain is a true entrepreneur. After several years in the wireless business, Ron Patel (with his long time associate, Jared Thrapp) launched Just Dine in Deliveries—-the company is a restaurant marketing and delivery company.

Here are some of some of the questions covered in this segment:

1. Why did you initially move from wireless to the restaurant industry?
2. Let’s talk about Just Dine In—what is the business model and how does it work?
3. What was your process like—creating the business, then orchestrating the rollout of it?
4. In this business—-you have 3 basic “groups” of customers in the mix. Let’s walk through each type and talk about how you work with each of them.
5. As your business evolved—-did you have any challenges or bumps along the way that would be productive to share with our audience of small business owners and enthusiasts?
6. Le’s talk about the RMDA, the professional association for restaurant delivery service industry business owners. How does the organization support business owners like you?
7. For those that would like to learn more—-what is the website of RMDA?
8. If someone listening wanted to learn more about the restaurant delivery service, or RDS industry—-how would you advise them?

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