Think Food Group

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“Emma serves as the foundation to our email strategy.”

brittany latney

SENIOR DIGITAL MARKETING MANAGER

Industry: restaurant, franchise

About ThinkFoodGroup

ThinkFoodGroup 20+ restaurants reflect the authentic roots of each of their concepts, and showcase Chef José Andrés’ passion for telling the stories of a culture through food.

ThinkFoodGroup delights customers with relevant email messages.

ThinkFoodGroup restaurants reflect the authentic roots of each unique concept and showcase José’s passion for telling the stories of a culture through food. From an intimate fine dining experience, a mobile food truck, or their multifaceted hotel operations, ThinkFoodGroup’s aim is the same — to delight customers at every turn and that includes in their inbox. They are pairing beautiful templates with relevant messages delivered at the perfect time.

Rounding out the email mix with engaging content.

“Our overall email strategy is to really help restaurants incorporate content-based emails with their sales-based messages,” said Brittany Latney, Senior Digital Marketing Manager.

ThinkFoodGroup doesn’t have a large marketing team, meaning Brittany doesn’t have time to code email after email. “The platform is so intuitive — it really helps me execute on my email strategy. It allows me to be strategic with how we communicate with our guests,” offered Brittany.

Consistent branding while preserving unique nuances.

ThinkFoodGroup has success sending emails from José as a celebrity and also from the individual restaurants in the group. Brittany said, “Each restaurant has its own following and we want to continue to make that personal connection. We can choose who to send the email from so we don’t boggle someone’s inbox.”

The stories behind ThinkFoodGroup’s brand are of utmost importance — the dishes, the wine, the name. “These things are who we are. Email is a way to get that in front of our guests since we don’t do big advertising campaigns,” Brittany revealed.

Since switching to Emma, ThinkFoodGroup has been able to deliver the beautiful emails they’d always envisioned. Customers have noticed too –

  • Open rate has increased by 17%
  • Opt out rate decreased by 0.23%
  • Subscriber list has grown a whopping 240%

Why did ThinkFoodGroup choose Emma?

“Our previous provider didn’t have the flexibility to really make beautiful emails, which is very important to us. Just like our dishes, we want our emails to be beautiful,” explained Brittany.

ThinkFoodGroup finds the drag & drop editor Emma’s most valuable feature. Brittany noted, “Compared to what I’ve seen done previously, it’s very easy and simple. Being able to see the email before it’s fully developed is awesome.”

Brittany continued, “But really, the most joyous part about using Emma is the partnership. We look at Emma as our partner, not just some email platform.”

What the future looks like:

ThinkFoodGroup is looking at how they can further segment their data to be as effective as possible. This includes segmenting stale or inactive subscribers as well as segmenting based on restaurant location.

By The Numbers 

17%

list growth

17%

open rate incraesed

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Not only did using Emma help us improve our emails – it also helped us tailor programs to better meet the needs and interests of our students.

Angie & Collin

Assistant Director of Student Activities, Student Affairs

Emma is a solid email marketing management platform that provided campaign performance insights, tracking, and a fair amount of customization. Additionally, building out an API so that it spoke to our personnel database made updating contact information and managing unsubscribes considerably easier.

Ben E.

Director of Communication, Higher Education

The fact that our store managers are able to log into Emma and feel comfortable creating emails really means a lot. That, plus the approvals process have saved us a ton of time and keep the brand on point—which is crucial.

Carl Dickerson

Digital Content Strategist

Emma has been a helpful tool for our organization. We recognize that students get inundated with emails so using Emma allows us to be more strategic and create messages that are more engaging to students.

Christian B.

Director of Housing, Higher Education

The best thing about Emma is that it is one of the most influential platforms for marketing and comes with great features. You cannot resist its impeccable ability to boost sales through the best email transactions.

James C.

Digital Marketing Manager

Emma allows you to send blast emails to different audiences. Emma’s “Segments” allow you to slice your contact list into different segments based on different criteria. Creating emails is fairly easy and it’s not too hard to make something look good. We use Emma to send ~ 300K emails at a time, which it does well.

Jeremy A.

Project Coordinator

The approvals dashboard has really knocked it out of the park: It saves us so much time and makes it seamless to manage over 1,000 studio newsletters each month.

Meredith Parks

Marketing Strategist

Emma enables us to design email campaigns that consistently reflect our organization’s brand, while also making it simple to switch between different templates tailored to various audiences. The insight dashboards provide valuable analytics, and the builder itself is both intuitive and user-friendly.

Katie M.

Marketing Manager

We are much happier with it in comparison to our formal software Constant Contact – the customer service is just more responsive, and the interface is so easy to use that we are able to have interns use with little direction.

Monica S.

Marketing, Marketing and Advertising

I really like the email editors and ability to create segments based on your data. The Emma team is great about helping set up external APIs in order for your data to get automatically added into their system.

Nikki R.

Digital Marketing Manager

The thing I like most about Emma is how easy things are to manage. The UI is laid out in a way that makes it very straightforward to get what you need to do, done.

Trevor A.

Founder, Marketing and Advertising

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