ThisWeek CW 06/25/2015

http://www.thisweeknews.com/content/stories/canalwinchester/news/2015/06/22/eat-local-event-touts-citys-restaurants.html

Canal Winchester has partnered with Destination: Canal Winchester and the Canal Winchester Area Chamber of Commerce to showcase the city’s restaurants from Monday, June 29, to July 3.

They’re asking diners to use their mobile devices during Eat Local Restaurant Week to check in using social media as a way of promoting the city as a destination for specialty local foods and boutique shopping.

Amanda Lemke, the city’s events and communications director, said the idea for Eat Local Restaurant Week came from a resident survey.

“The city recently polled our residents regarding activities and interests,” she said. “After reviewing the comments, we did some brainstorming with our partners at the Canal Winchester Area Chamber of Commerce and Destination: Canal Winchester to come up with new campaigns to showcase some of our great local restaurants as well as unique retail establishments.

“We hope that when you think of Canal Winchester, you think of the great local restaurants.”

Lemke said for this inaugural year, Eat Local Restaurant Week is meant to be more of an awareness campaign for what the city has to offer.

“Because our campaign is an awareness and social media campaign, we encourage all patrons visiting any Canal Winchester restaurant to check in on social media during the week using the hashtags #cwhometown, #cwrestaurantweek and #cwfoodie,” Lemke said.

“Many restaurants will offer specials and mini-events; however, it was not our desire to require our local restaurants to forfeit any of their profits to participate, or feel obliged to buy in.

“Of course, we encourage them to utilize this unique opportunity to market their specials or special events cooperatively by using the campaign in their marketing materials and social media tags,” she said.