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Pizza family-day playbook: how to turn Sunday lunch into your highest-margin shift

Pizza in Vietnam has a structural Sunday-lunch opportunity that most operators miss. Families decide on Saturday night or Sunday 10am — the window for influence is narrow. This playbook owns that window and turns Sundays into the highest-margin shift of the week.

When it fires

Trigger: pizza restaurant operating Sunday lunch with current Sunday-vs-weekday revenue ratio below 1.5x. PEKO surfaces this in the weekly traffic report.

Message copy that works

Two-channel push. (1) Friday 7pm Zalo OA broadcast to all opt-ins with kids in profile: family-pack pricing (large pizza + 2 sides + drinks = 20% off à la carte total) bookable through Sunday 12pm. (2) Sunday 10am Mini App push notification with a "book your table in 1 tap" deep link. Both messages name a child-friendly perk (free balloon, kids' activity pack).

Cadence + timing

Run weekly Friday evening + Sunday morning. Skip Tết week and the week before school exams (parents are stressed, no decision capacity).

Expected lift

Restaurants running this playbook 6+ weeks see Sunday lunch revenue 1.8–2.3x weekday lunch. Kid-bring rate (parties with ≥1 child) climbs to 55–65%. Family-pack attach 38–48% of Sunday tickets.

Guardrails — don't skip these

Don't blast the broadcast to non-parents — Zalo OA unsubscribe spikes. Don't price the family pack below your true marginal cost — measure it. Don't run a second family promo Saturday — cannibalizes Sunday.

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