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Abstract— Marketing plays a very important role in the businesses into adopting businesses practices that are said
organization’s success; it is a must to every organization to be of great help for them to achieve excellence status.
to consider strategizing their different marketing These business practices are said to be the ways that have
practices. The study presented the marketing strategies of contributed to increasing the performance such as
restaurants in Nueva Ecija. The study aimed to assess profitability and market share of the organization. Many
different marketing strategies which focused on product of the owners of the businesses that have empowered their
offering, pricing and promotion of the restaurants in the marketing practices are still in the running for the longest
province. The descriptive method of research was utilized time and recognized as strongest contenders in the
and questionnaire served as the instrument for collecting industry.
data. Owners/ managers of eight selected restaurants in According to Marrs (2015), the competition
Nueva Ecija were taken as respondents. As to among restaurants is fierce, and owners need to give their
product/service offerings, restaurants management all to be successful. In order for a restaurant firm to stay
offered variety of food and beverages to attract on the industry owners should have some new fresh ideas.
customers. They also maintained the cleanliness of their Restaurant owners must be vigilant on their marketing
places and their surroundings. They based their prices on practices so that they will be able to survive competition.
their production cost and current market demand. In this study, the marketing strategies of
Meanwhile, advertising and sales promotion were the restaurant businesses in Nueva Ecija in accordance with
main promotional tool used by the restaurants their products, pricing and promotion were described .
management. On the other hand, the restaurants This study will benefit the business owners as this study
management should continuously provide new variety of provided them information on their marketing practices
high quality food offerings coupled with courteous and for them to have benchmark. It is imperative therefore, for
prompt services sold at a reasonable price. businesses to determine their best practices and
Keywords— marketing; pricing; product; promotion; continuously nurture these to keep their good standing.
restaurants. Moreover, this study will serve as a roadmap to the future
entrepreneurs whose idea is to putting up a food business
I. INTRODUCTION and giving them a clearer perspective on running this type
Filipinos love to eat, and entrepreneurs know it. of business, perhaps a slice of secrets in achieving
If you ask would-be-entrepreneurs about their opinion of business excellence.
the best business to start, a lot of them will answer — it
should be food-related business. Indeed, food service II. METHODOLOGY
business is one of the most competitive fields when it The research design utilized by the researchers in
comes to business, specifically in income generation, this study was the descriptive method. Questionnaire
growth and expansion. was used as the technique in gathering the data and
In Nueva Ecija, restaurant business becomes an additional interview questions prompted to the interest
industry to watch out for as increasing number of this of the researchers. Questionnaire was structured based
business is very evident mostly in the heart of the city. on the study of Sangkaworn, C. and Mujtaba, B., (n.d.).
However, the increasing number of restaurants in the city The respondents of the study were the owners of the
manifests that competition gets stiffer. With this, only eight selected restaurants in Nueva Ecija.
those businesses that geared with best practices and
properly managed survive. III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
The extreme business competition and rapid 1. Profile of the Restaurants
changes in business environment have enticed many
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