Comments on: Punjabi Santa

By: Ganesh

Ganesh — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:49:55 +0000

Hi,
I went to Kasa in Marina yesterday. I really like the food especially it feels like home made and I just read your blog about having the restaurant in expensive marina area. Here are some marketing tips may be useful for your business especially for the first 6 months .
1. Print some discount coupon on back of the Marina Safeway Receipt like the other businesses are doing.
2. Print your advertisement in Paper Napkins and give it to nearby bars so that it drive customers after the drink from the bars.
3. Free T-shirt with Kasa Logo and info for the customers who order more than 50$ or 75$ so that the name Kasa will spread wherever the customer wears the T-shirt .
4. Have some visiting cards with Kasa info along with Menu in the front so that the customers will carry the visting cards in their wallet and that reminds to visit more often.

Good Luck

Ganesh

By: Anamika

Anamika — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:29:52 +0000

Hi Chandran

Thank you for the compliments to the food. We aim to serve homestyle food, so it is always nice to hear when people appreciate this.

Thank you so much for the recommendation on the lights for the Kasa sign too. We are in the process of working this out and having some technical difficulties with it. Soon enough though, and hopefully we will figure it out. We are also working on getting tables and chairs outside too.

Thanks and see you in store one of these days
Anamika

By: Chandran

Chandran — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:25:32 +0000

Hi Anamika,
I ‘ve been there many times since you opened K2 at Marina. Food is very nice homely Indian food compared to the other Indian restaurants. I always recommend Kasa to my friends whenever I get a chance. I didn’t get a chance to see you till now. Tonight only I got a chance to meet you. Its good that you are opening late night on weekends because lot of people in fillmore during the weekend nights. I recommend you to put some flash light showing the sign Kasa or Open so that People can see from faraway that its open Otherwise it looks like its closed. All the Best and thanks for opening this place close to the place where I live.

By: naomi

naomi — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:05:11 +0000

when do we get a couple of your recipes? living far from the SF area we can’t visit- but would love to cook up some of your famous dishes!

By: Sean Hanley

Sean Hanley — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:42:23 +0000

Hi. Interesting post. Probably a good thing for people to understand better some of the challenges faced by restaurant owners.

Wanted to provide some feedback on your Castro operation and did not see a comment vehicle elsewhere on the site so I am commenting here.

Love your food. Always tasty, well-spiced and fresh and very reasonably priced. We recommend you to anyone that will listen. There is one aspect of your operation that could be stronger and that is delivery. Every time we make an order we get a story about how the delivery guy didn’t show up or how busy you are and how delivery will take a long time and not so subtle cues to forego delivery and come pick up ourselves. As parents with a very young child this is not usually practical and as a restaurant who’s website description is “Indian Food Delivery” you should be doing better in this area. I’ve never run a food delivery operation so I’m certain there are challenges I am not aware of, but many other restaurants in the area have figured out how to make this work. I hope you will too.