Data locked in a tool when you sell to restaurants
What happens to your leads the day you cancel? Here is how people who sell to restaurants fix it.
What happens to your leads the day you cancel?
Some tools rent you access to contacts or make it hard to take your work with you. Your notes, statuses and lists stay behind when the subscription ends.
It hits harder when you sell to restaurants. Restaurants run on thin margins and long hours, and the owner or general manager decides on suppliers, software and marketing. Groups have a head office buyer, but independents choose on price, reliability and how little extra work a change brings.
Every month you invest more work into a list you do not really own. Switching tools later means starting over.
Your data, exportable at any moment.
In Riftjaw you build your own lead database on your account's own server. You can export contacts to CSV at any time, all at once or per segment. Form entries and original import files come back out too, including on the day you leave.
- Fields that fit restaurants, such as cuisine
- Email prefixes that fit, like info@, bookings@, reservations@ and manager@
- Status, tags and a segment on every record
Fixing it in Riftjaw
- Choose what to export. Pick all contacts, a filter or a segment.
- Export to CSV. Get a clean CSV that opens in any spreadsheet.
- Get the originals back. Retrieve the original import files and form entries as well.
Other walls when prospecting restaurants
Restaurant lists change fast as places open, close and change owners.
Each record keeps its source and date, and you can archive closed places so your active list stays current.
The bookings@ address reaches a host, not the owner.
Tick several prefixes in email from domain, such as info@ and manager@, and note on the contact who replied.
You cannot tell which restaurants you already visited in person.
Set the status to Contacted and add a note after each visit, so the whole team sees it.
Fields worth recording for restaurants
Any column in your import can become a field. These are the ones worth keeping for restaurants.
| Field | Why it helps |
|---|---|
| Company name | The key field. Duplicates are checked on it or on the website. |
| Website | Needed to derive an email when the export has none. |
| Cuisine | The type of food shapes which products and suppliers are relevant. |
| Covers | Seating capacity hints at volume and budget. |
| Independent or group | Groups buy centrally, so you need a different contact and approach. |
| Delivery | Restaurants that deliver need packaging and ordering tools. |
| Opening hours | Knowing when they open helps you pick a time to call or visit. |
Questions people ask
Collect restaurants from public listings such as Google Maps or review sites with a scraper, then import the CSV or Excel file. Riftjaw flags duplicates and lets you add a field for cuisine or area.
Many teams do both. Riftjaw keeps phone numbers as fields and email history per contact, so you can tag who to call and send a short campaign to the rest.
If your file has an email column, that wins. If it only has websites, tick the prefixes you want, such as info@, bookings@, reservations@ and manager@, and Riftjaw derives addresses from each domain. Derived addresses are good guesses, not verified, so start with small batches.
Yes. The Free plan runs the whole pipeline on one list with small campaigns, and you do not need a credit card. Move to Pro when you want more lists, segments and bigger campaigns.
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