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With social media providing easy access to consumers, it has become a focal point for restaurants in their marketing efforts. Approximately 80% of restaurants in the US use social media to establish and enhance their online presence, according to a 2013 eMarketer report. Facebook is the primary platform for restaurants’ consumer marketing, followed by Twitter, blogging sites, Pinterest, Instagram, Yelp and online reviews.

While Facebook is primarily thought of as a personal tool rather than a business tool, it works extremely well in the restaurant category. Diners can check in wherever they are and, in some cases, build up loyalty points for the number of check-ins. Facebook also gives the restaurant the option to offer specials to diners when they are on the premises. Some even allow customers to order drinks at a restaurant, rather than waiting for the server to appear. Pinterest also offers restaurant owners an opportunity to post photographs of their venue, drinks and dishes, and link back to the restaurant’s website. Yelp invites reviews from customers.Social media and restaurant insurance underwritingWhat you may not know is that social media is also becoming a key part of the restaurant insurance underwriting process. From a risk perspective, it’s a great tool for uncovering problems or discrepancies between an application and an online presence. Today, restaurant insurance underwriters look at your website, Facebook page, Tweets, MySpace, Instagram, Open Table, Yelp and even Google to see how you present your restaurant.Menus tell us what kind of a restaurant you are – whether you’re a fast food restaurant, a high-end gourmet restaurant or a family-friendly restaurant. 尤物视频products are generally designed to fit the specific needs of the type of restaurant. A fine dining restaurant, a family restaurant, and casual restaurants do not need or require the kind of insurance products designed for bars, taverns, sports bars and nightclubs, which have higher liquor receipts.Hours of operation are another area underwriters will review. If your restaurant is open past 1 AM, we assume you are serving more alcohol than food during the late night/early morning hours, which changes our perspective on risk. Let’s say your insurance application says you do not allow dancing; yet the photo gallery on your website shows a DJ playing music on a Friday night. That type of inconsistency is going to lead an underwriter to question the accuracy of the information he or she has received for the overall account.What you can doMy advice to restaurant owners is to continually update your website and monitor your online presence. Out-of-date information or inaccurate information on the internet, including social media, will delay the underwriting process. On the other hand, if your online presence is non-existent that makes us wonder how long you will be in business. No insurer wants to provide coverage to a restaurant that is not profitable or that has consistently negative customer reviews. Be sure that whoever is posting information to your Facebook page or doing your tweets is doing a good job of imparting accurate information. Monitor social media for problems such as an unhappy customer and work hard to alleviate those situations.ConclusionRestaurant insurance markets come and go – sometimes with alarming frequency. I suggest you look for an insurer or independent agent that specializes in restaurant coverage.  This will provide you with peace of mind and let you concentrate on building a profitable restaurant.   

Heidi Strommen is President of ProHost USA, a program administrator specializing in restaurant coverage. ProHost works exclusively with independent agents and brokers. Learn more about  and its .