Restaurant Week 2023

Restaurants will create special menus, once-in-a-year type of offers. The better the offer the greater your draw of new guests. You can create a special 3-course menu or offer a special discount. In benchmarking other community restaurant weeks, those restaurants who offered great deals had more traffic and greater post event success.  Those offering 20% off or free appetizers/desserts, saw minimal increases in customers. The goal is to bring in new people to the community to experience the culinary diversity of Bloomingdale.  Bloomingdale has a world variety of restaurants including Italian, Mexican, American, African, Indian, Australian and Vietnamese. 

The event will be open to Chamber members for a $50 fee with the donation of a gift card (value $15 and up), non-Chamber members will be charged $125 to participate and also provide a gift card valued at $15 or more. Non-Chamber members will have the opportunity to become members and apply their Restaurant Week fee to their membership fee. Chamber membership start at $230 annually. Contact Cindy Allston, Cindy@BloomingdaleChamber.com or 630-980-9082 for details about membership or Sponsorship. Sponsorships help pay for the marketing and range from $1,200 - $100 and are listed below.

Restaurant Week will be advertised via, banners and signage in the community, eblasts to area residents, Village e newsletter and bi-monthly Almanac mailed to all homes in Bloomingdale, posters and flyers in the restaurants, and Social Media. The Chamber also adds information to restaurant week websites, and sends press releases to the Daily Herald and Chicago Tribune.  

Your restaurant information and menu will be on a Restaurant Week page on the Chamber website with hyperlinks back to your website. You’ll be included in Chamber eblasts, (over 3,600 subscribers with an open rate of 50%!) on the posters and flyers, and in the press releases. This exposure is worth more than the fee.  If you have pictures of your restaurant or food send them to the Chamber to be included on the website and in the marketing. We will try our best to include as many as possible. Send pictures to Cindy@BloomingdaleChamber.com.

Sponsorship Levels

• $1200 Event Sponsorship
  • Social Media
  • Money Mailer (10,000 households)
  • Community Banners
  • Posters in all participating businesses
  • Menus of all participating businesses
  • Chamber website – Home page and event pages
  • Eblasts

• $750 Menu Sponsor
  • Posters in all participating businesses
  • Menus of all participating businesses
  • Chamber website –event pages
  • Eblasts

• $100 Friend Sponsor
  • Chamber website –event pages
  • Eblasts