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title: "Customer Text Messaging: The Mobile-First Pivot for Restaurants"
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# Five Ways to Leverage Text Messaging in the 2021 Restaurant Rebound

Now more than ever, good guest communications are critical. But getting their attention is tough when email only gets a 20% open rate, and your company app open rate is typically 5%. The key to your restaurant's ability to come back strong in 2021 is to leverage the app your customers are already using 47 times a day. Here's how leading restaurants are doing this.

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### Inside:

- The 4 biggest snags to achieving a strong rebound after COVID 
- The 5 most successful mobile messaging tactics top restaurant brands are using right now 
- The 3 reasons leading restaurants are putting mobile messaging at the center of their digital engagement and marketing strategy

- Which tools brands are using to launch and operate their mobile messaging campaign
- How to get started with your own mobile messaging campaign

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### Download our quick-read quide with texting strategies and real-world examples from top brands

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## Mobivity has Powered More Mobile Messaging Programs for Foodservice Brands than Anyone Else.

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