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This post is the sixth in a 10-part series aimed at providing some ideas for various businesses and professionals looking to get into video podcasting – either daily, weekly, monthly or just whenever.

Even in this economic downturn, people are still eating out. Maybe not as much. But we’re all still hitting a restaurant once, twice or more a week.

It’s the convenience, isn’t it? We “don’t want to cook,” or there’s “nothing in the fridge,” and so on.

So here’s a question for restaurant owners… from the corner deli to the exclusive eatery… When families, couples and singles start thinking about where they’re going to eat, are they thinking of your restaurant?

A video podcast for restaurants can “serve up” customer awareness and loyalty in ways you haven’t even tapped into yet. Here are five podcast ideas:

1. Meet the… chef, owner, hostess, waitress, waiter, etc…
2. Show-and-tell your menu favorites or new additions. Use your chef or most video-friendly waitress, waiter or hostess
3. “Bartender school” – Have your most video-friendly bartender share some common or not-so-common drink recipes
4. A day/night in the life of a… chef, hostess, waiter, waitress, bartender, valet, bouncer, etc…
5. Customer testimonials

If I don’t ever step into your restaurant how will I know what its personality is? Or, how varied and delicious the menu is? Video that highlights your restaurant on your Web site sits me down at one of your tables and makes me want to come check it out.

Here are the first five business video podcast posts in this series:

1. Real estate

2. Hardware store

3. Doctor/Dentists

4. Construction/Remodeling

5. Nursery/Gardening