Amid inflation, restaurants need to get more creative to help bring customers through the door. What exactly can they do to improve traffic? André Moraes of PepsiCo Digital Lab shares how experiences, microinfluencers, and the Local Eats program can help propel restaurants in 2025.

More About André Moraes:

André leads Digital Marketing in PepsiCo’s Global Away from Home division, across all beverage, snack, and food brands. Prior to joining PepsiCo, André worked at both the tech and agency sides of the marketing world - leading consumer strategy and marketing intelligence at Google within the CPG food and beverage sector, as well as heading up some of OMD’s global Marketing Sciences efforts. André is also an Adjunct Professor at NYU where he teaches Marketing Analytics to students in the Integrated Marketing masters program. He holds a BS in Finance from Fairfield University, an MS in Digital Marketing from Full Sail University, and is a Fulbright Scholar.

More About PepsiCo:

PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $91 billion in net revenue in 2023, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with pep+ (PepsiCo Positive). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the center of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com, and follow on X, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @PepsiCo.

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More About PepsiCo Digital Lab:

The PepsiCo AwayFromHome Digital Lab is a first-of-its-kind group built to connect foodservice operators with exclusive PepsiCo solutions and services as well as the companies, services, insights, and solutions best suited for their specific digital growth needs. Powered by extensive proprietary and partner solutions, the Digital Lab is the first offering of its kind from a foodservice manufacturer directly helping operators of all sizes drive traffic, build check size, and develop their digital business – serving everyone from local single location restaurants, to the largest global QSRs.

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