Online industry leaders will be discussing “Restaurant Marketing in a Digital World”
at the 2008 National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago.

Online industry leaders will gather at the 2008 National Restaurant Association to discuss the state of Internet marketing in the restaurant industry. Scott Shaw, president and CEO of Fishbowl; Patrick Eldon, CEO of OrderTalk; Niklas Eklund, CEO of Livebookings, and Kate Stanford, Head of Marketing, Classifieds & Local for Google will take part in the panel discussion “Restaurant Marketing in a Digital World,” one of the several educational sessions held at this year’s 2008 National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show in Chicago. The panel discussion is set for Saturday, May 17 at 2pm at the McCormick Place’s North Hall, 3th Floor.

The panelists will talk about how to use, leverage and combine emerging forms of media, including email, mobile, online ordering, online reservations, social networking, viral marketing and the web – to respond to today’s time-pressed consumers and downturned economy. They will also explore the opportunities and risks attendant to marketing in this new medium. The panel will be moderated by Peter Romeo, executive editor of Nation’s Restaurant News.

National Restaurant Association
Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show
May 17 – 20, 2008
McCormick Place, Chicago

The NRA Show is the industry’s largest single gathering of more than 74,000 restaurant and hospitality professionals, and the number-one venue for networking, education, watching trends and building business-to-business connections and relationships.

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For information on this year’s show in Chicago see:
SHOW

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