Connections

What’s the connection with __________________ ?

We are often asked about connections between various things related to the restaurants.

Here are a few connectivity answers...

Q. What’s the connection between Joe’s Real BBQ, Joe’s Farm Grill and Liberty Market?
A.  Joe/Tim/Tad own the BBQ and Grill together, Joe/David/Kiersten own Liberty.  

Q. How do you guys connect with the community?
A. We try to do it in a variety of ways, most often by honoring requests for help with fundraisers, non-profits, etc.   Over the course of a year we honor hundreds of requests with gift cards.  We are working on getting the request form on the web to make connecting even easier.

Q. What’s the connection between Joe’s Farm Grill and The Coffee Shop at Agritopia?
A. They are connected via footpath.  Also Joe developed Agritopia, and he and his brothers lease the building they used to use as a tractor shed to TCS.  They are also connected in their being featured on The Food Network.  The Grill was on Guy Fieri’s Diners Drive-ins and Dives, and TCS is on Cupcake Wars this month.

Q. Why do you guys use social media to connect with your customers?
A. Because we like to make personal connections.  We are local. We are independent. We are not fans of chains.  We have no interest in going national.  We love Gilbert, and with only 239,000 people here, we think we ought to be able to meet everyone!. OK, not everyone.  But we do think using FB, Twitter, etc. to make connections allows us to personalize things more than when these things didn’t exist.  We’ve met many customers this year we might not have without social media.  We’ve been able to put names with faces (and avatars).   We’ve forged relationships, which is frankly what it’s all about. It is also a conduit for feedback we might not otherwise get.  We try to be good listeners.

Until we connect again... Tad

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