How Smirk helped a national restaurant group manage thousands of online customer messages and reviews every month.

The Hal Smith Restaurant Group is a management company headquartered in Oklahoma City, operating 16 different restaurant concepts across seven U.S. states. Over the years, the Hal Smith brand has developed a trusted reputation known for exceptional customer service in its restaurants. The company has a robust growth trajectory and is actively planning new locations and concepts.Prior to partnering with Smirk, all concepts were seeing an increasingly time-consuming volume of commentary across social media and review platforms. Their internal marketing team wanted to proactively manage their digital reputation, ensure their guests received quick and attentive customer service online and develop a reputation management strategy that could scale with their planned growth. They also wanted to create distinct and consistent online brand voices for each concept.

Smirk helped Hal Smith reach a 100% response rate for all online customer questions, complaints and reviews. Smirk response teams actively monitor all incoming audience engagement daily on multiple platforms, sending on average over 3,000 brand responses to customers per month. We also provide Hal Smith with monthly brand sentiment reports that include actionable customer satisfaction data.Since March, Smirk has also assisted the Hal Smith team in quickly adapting to the rapidly changing environment relating to COVID-19. Our team develops and manages their brand’s public responses to questions regarding changing hours, the closure of locations, evolving health and safety guidelines and more.