Scenario: You work as a training manager for a small restaurant, Pasta Amore. The restaurant is opening a new location in Suburbia, Somewhere; in addition, the company would like to draw attention to its expanding online presence. This location expansion may present an opportunity to do that as well. The restaurant owner, Laura Morelli, would like you to present a communication strategy with clearly defined communication goals for the next year. She emphasized the importance of ensuring that the presentation is aligned with the company style guide to ensure cohesiveness of various communications.

Company Overview

Pasta Amore serves authentic Italian cuisine in a warm, welcoming, family-friendly environment. The restaurant owners are from an Italian background, and they have a strong appreciation for Italian food and traditions that bring families together over a delicious homemade meal.

Pasta Amore Style Guide

Prior to beginning this project, Laura has asked you to review the company style guide, which includes the following information:

Mission statement

Vision

Logo and usage information

Color palette information

Primary typography information

Image use guidelines

Mission Statement:

To provide a warm atmosphere for your family where we can share the traditional cuisines of Italy. Our food will always be fun, fresh and filled with love.

Vision

Pasta Amore combines the cooking traditions and ingredients of Italy with creativity, providing a modern twist on timeless classics. Our vision for the future is to grow and learn

along with our customers. In doing so, we aim to provide an atmosphere that enables this growth and fuels the passion that lives within the essence of the brand.

The approach of Pasta Amore is to develop our brand with the understanding of both our culture and consumer insights. Within our vision always lives the promise of inspiring creativity, conversation and quality.

Logo

Our logo is at the heart of our brand. In understanding how to represent the logo you will effectively understand the brand mission and personality. Since our ingredients come first, we have integrated the tomato to have the dual meaning as the heart of our brand. It translates well as a strong and recognizable branding mark that can also be used on other applications. The logo supports the brand's emphasis on family and establishes a look representative of the company's current consumers while understanding its future vision.

Target Audience Information

New Restaurant Setting

The communications team has already created an audience segmentation table based on demographic information about the restaurant's new location:

Audience Segment Description	Age Range	Income Range	Education Level	Family Life	Additional Information
Up and Coming	25-44	Upper-middle	College graduate	Mixed	Includes recent college graduates Healthy, active lifestyle Homeowner/renter mix Mid- to above-average technology use
Growing Neighborhoods	25-45	Low-middle	Mix	Couples with kids	Ethnically diverse Experience working in retail or service industries Mix of renters and homeowners Mid- to above-average technology use
Retired	55+	Upper-middle	Some college	Children moved out	Traditional values Appreciate practicality and simplicity Typically homeowners Mid- to low-level technology use Ethnically diverse

Delivery Approaches to Consider

Here are some tools to consider, but feel free to propose new ideas and tools to get the word out about the restaurant's new location.

Social media

The company currently uses Facebook and has a business page where it regularly post specials and interact with the community.

The company does not currently use other social media, but it is open to expanding its reach.

Free local newspaper (Suburbia Weekly Buzz)

Suburbia Weekly Buzz is a weekly local newspaper that covers news about city politics, entertainment, and community interests. The newspaper allows paid advertisements and features for businesses. It is available for free at local businesses, including restaurants and grocery stores. It is well-known and read by a diverse audience.

Paid local newspaper (City Gazette)

The daily newspaper is available in stores and offers digital subscriptions to its online edition.

Readers are mostly middle-aged to older adults.

Company website/blog

The company has a simple website with its mission in the "About Us" section, as well as hours and a menu. Stakeholders are open to expanding resources on the website to better connect to the community and build brand awareness, if the website would be an appropriate communication platform.

Economic Environment

Suburbia already has one Italian restaurant that markets itself as "fine Italian dining." It is located on the outskirts of town and is very expensive. The restaurant appeals mostly to older, wealthy people in the community.

The area is in a phase of significant economic and middle-class growth. The city is located in an area with many old textile mills that are being bought and converted to office space by technology companies. This is creating jobs and stimulating the local economy.

Directions

Your task is to create a communications strategy presentation to internal stakeholders using the company style guide. The presentation should represent the company's brand and mission, and will discuss ways that you apply those in the development of a communication strategy.

Adherence With Brand Mission and Style Guide: Pasta Amore considers its style guide a valuable company asset, and it is important to Laura that the style guide continues to inform communication on all levels of the company.

Discuss the role of the mission statement and corporate voice for informing communication approaches. Provide specific details in speaker notes.

Communication Goals and Strategy: Laura has asked that you include communication goals that consider Pasta Amore's mission, vision, and corporate voice. The communication goals should clearly reflect and align with those elements.

1. Introduce your communication strategy for executing communication goals and explaining alignment to the company mission and brand ideals. Provide specific details about the elements of the mission that will appeal most to specific target audiences.
2. Create communication goals that clearly connect to the company mission statement. In the speaker notes, explain the purpose of the communication goals for meeting the company's strategic initiatives and alignment with company mission and vision.
3. Identify specific decision-making methods that will inform the company's communication goals, considering how the company's mission and vision appeal to the targeted audience.

Delivery Methods:Laura has asked that you identify communication channels and provide examples of how the company will maintain mission and brand consistency across the channels that you identify. Specifically, consider logo usage and verbiage that supports the company mission and corporate voice.

1. Determine communication delivery approaches and appropriate platforms, such as suggested media channels and advertising locations. For each delivery approach and platform, consider both the target audience and the mission and vision.
2. Describe approaches to engage with the target audience in a way that is aligned with the brand mission. For each platform indicated, identify the target audience. Provide specific details and rationale in speaker notes.
3. Describe examples of communications across various media channels in alignment with the company's mission and brand. Consider timing, text, and images that should be included for advertisements and social media posts.
4. Discuss tactics used to frame corporate voice and mission strategically to the targeted audience. Consider specific themes should be used in communications to provide a consistent experience. Provide supporting details in speaker notes.