How do you keep loyal customers when the look changes?

You keep a feature regulars already use to name you: the name, a facade colour or a line the floor says. You lose them if the name, the logo and the tone all change on the same day and nobody at the door explains you are still the same house. Ask five regulars what they would still recognise if the facade changed. Keep the feature they repeat, even if you are tired of it. In the sierra the bar changes the sign on a Monday and the card players ask if the place has been taken over. The new review talks about “somewhere else”.

The change piece includes the feature that stays and a line to say on the floor for the first month. The post does not replace that line.

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