Now, more than ever, restaurant owners are looking for new ways to keep their customers coming back. In today 's competitive market, chains can afford to build multi-million dollar marketing campaigns to keep customers visiting their restaurants.

Now the independents can turn the tables on the chains by working together, creating a cooperative marketing effort where 30 restaurants in your city can share customers, share ideas, and share in their success.

We're looking for a restaurant professional, an owner, a GM, server, or bar manager who cares about preserving the local culinary landscape in their city. This person will champion the cause by starting their an "Originals" group in their area. It will be a group of locally owned restaurants that pull together and build each others business while taking a bite out chain restaurant sales.

The foundation of the group is the "Originals Rewards Card" that can be used by guests to earn points at all of the member restaurants. The program just launched in Columbia, SC and those restaurants enrolled 3,500 customers in the first 60 days!

The area director should run in the local restaurant circles, have a good reputation, have experience in daily restaurant operations, be customer service oriented, and have an entrepreneurial spirit.

If you're interested in starting a group for your city, please contact Kermit Austin at 877-229-7299 or by emailing kermit@originalrestaurants.com.