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[Badgerfans]

Looking for ideas for a Pizza Place that has a lot of kids as customers. The place is a little more upscale than a Chuck E Cheese (it doesn't take much for that).
Last year they did the Fold Up Vinyl Flyer in the pouch and the Mood Drinking Cup-- Both were a big hit for their Celebration Week.
This year he is looking for some other ideas.
He tries to keep the item $1 and below and last year got 1000 of each.
Any help on things that have been a hit?

Thank you.

[LogoSteve]

TradeNet and Dooley have many items that will work for pizza places....

Steve Gaither

[Badgerfans]

Please tell us which items that TradeNet and Dooley has that a crowd of 12 years old and under would enjoy?
Given that they already did Mood Cups and would like something on the equal of a Vinyl Fold Up Flyers? I don't think Bookmark rulers and Hand Fans are going to make the cut.

Thanks.

[Chris Miller]

Badgerfans said:

Please tell us which items that TradeNet and Dooley has that a crowd of 12 years old and under would enjoy? .

Ahh... new information comes out. Would have been great to let us know this in the beginning.

Anyway.... for less than a buck? How about something they can give their PARENTS to encourage them to come in? 12 year olds arent exactly big spenders, and not really worth marketing to...Unless you're McDonalds.... oh wait.... even they decided it wasnt worth it and they yanked out their playscapes and replaced them with extra drive-thru lanes.

[3Koi Maui]

I'm with Chris. The kids will come in because the parents drove them there. Or they will vote for getting pizza because... they like pizza. Sure, they would love to get a little toy, but after the first excitement of ripping open the box, don't most of those toys end up broken on the floor at home or in the garbage?

So what do parents want?
Discounts - put together a discount or frequent pier (get it? not frequent flier) campaign. Give out little membership keychain cards, or punch cards or something. They could earn slices instead of miles. Every XX number of slices and they can get free pizza or a salad for the parent or free sodas or even merchandise. You could do a great set of graphics with a frequent pier look.

Internet access - if internet access isn't readily available in the area, have the pizza parlor put it in, and you supply the advertising materials. Flyers, signage, etc. Free WiFi will draw in some of the lunchtime working crowd. Maybe even the afternoon before dinner crowd, who will buy a soda and maybe a snack of cheesy bread, and will sit there doing their email. Not good during the high-turnover lunchtime, but great for slower afternoons when the parlor can use another few dollars while they prep for dinner. Also it always looks better to have people sitting in the chairs than an empty place. Do a big promotion to the surrounding businesses by putting flyers on the cars in the parking lots everywhere in the area, especially the lunch crowd because they probably work nearby. Make up a good campaign about the afternoon break at the parlor - maybe make the name of the pizza parlor into a conference room name. Take your next meeting at Pizza Palace, or Want some private time but you're in a cubicle? Pizza Palace - your afternoon office.

[Badgerfans]

Thanks. These are all great ideas but what he wants would be 2 promotional items for this week and this week only. He already has plenty of ideas to get the crowd to come to the place (punch card, kids night, magnets, business stuff in the area, e-mails and so on). As stated, he used Vinyl Fold Flyers and Mood Cups last year for the Celebation week. He wants 2 items to hand out. For sure, one for the kids and the other could be for the family and/or adults.
The mood cup was used last year to serve up the kids drink (water, milk or soda). The flyer came with the bill, so most times it went to an adult to use or hand out as they wished.
The 2 items used last year were the "easy" ones -- now comes the tough part of finding items #3 and #4.
His goal is to do something "nice" with the celebration week. His goal with the 2 items is not to get thousands of more customers lined outside the door just waiting for a cool promotional item.


Thanks

[LogoSteve]

TradeNet has nice wallet cards that could be printed up for a discount card.

Stadium cups and the right grapics on them could become "collectibles".


Best Wishes!

Steve Gaither

[Badgerfans]

Thank you people.

He doesn't want discount cards for this promotion. That is not the purpose of this week.
He did cups last year.

Thank you.

To give you all some help-- one of the items I have on the top of my list is a Jar Opener. But still having problems coming up with an item that is going to make the kids go "wow" like last year. The mood cup changing colors was a top hit. Not many kids had seen a cup that changed colors. And the flyer was a good all round item.

[LogoSteve]

Maybe some "mood" pencils that change colors?

a Fun pen that kids would enjoy?

a magnet puzzle ...from TradeNet

a memo board ...from TradeNet
with a game or tic tac toe printed on them for kids to use.
or an education chart...like measurements or math or ?

a pocket note book...from Tradenet

Best Wishes!

Steve

[3Koi Maui]

Perhaps if we took off the restriction of looking just at Tradenet and Dooley (since you say they don't want cups again)?

Spinning tops
Tattoos
Carabiner clips to hang things from their backpacks
Window clings for home or auto

[Badgerfans]

Isa, thank you for the ideas.
I never stated there was a need for keeping TradeNet and Dooley as the only suppliers-- Steve is the one that keeps bringing them and only them up.

Thank you.

[LogoSteve]

Because they are good suppliers and contributors on this forum.

And mainly because have products that would work for this.

Steve

[royster13]

Maybe one of the closeout items from Pro-Innovative....

[ProPrinters]

There are these styrofoam finger rockets or planes that kids love and you can print on them and shoot them around.

[ValSutej]

I pitched a HUGE kids-pizza-arcade-prize place just 6 months ago. Most important criteria: kid-safe. Have to know that info (from supplier) before you pitch it. Temporary tattoos, soft frisbee like objects, face paint sticks, mini sport balls, balsa-wood airplanes, noise makers and pencils, play-dough, molded erasers (like animal shapes and etc) were all items of interest. There are other cool things but they are more than $1...

[ValSutej]

Oh! One more thing, check out Prime's new "popper". We cannot resist this and have a couple here in the office that we play with, PL-3760 is the item #, not sure if kid-safe but you can call Prime, ASI #79350.

[biggerfish]

Badgerfans said:

Looking for ideas for a Pizza Place that has a lot of kids as customers

I'll toss in:

Coloring Books with customer boxes of crayons
Yo-Yo's
Jumbo (like stupidly big to be useful jumbo) pen or pencil
Ping Pong Balls
Soap Bubbles

Also... Jornik has a ton of fun, inexpensive toy and game type things that nobody else has.

[ValSutej]

Soap bubbles is an awesome idea,too;)! I know he didn't have any of those in the redemption center. I realize the original post on this topic was years ago but still good to toss in ideas. Going to re-pitch this client....he'll be worth it when I finally get a foot in the door.

[3Koi Maui]

ValSutej said:

Soap bubbles is an awesome idea,too;)! I know he didn't have any of those in the redemption center. I realize the original post on this topic was years ago but still good to toss in ideas. Going to re-pitch this client....he'll be worth it when I finally get a foot in the door.

Original post was last month, which can sometimes feel like years ago...:D

[ValSutej]

3Koi Maui said:

Original post was last month, which can sometimes feel like years ago...:D

LOL! Yeah...I meant to say "days", that's why one should preview before final posting. It's like 30 below zero here in the Midwest (I am NOT joking). Aloha to you, too!