CASE STUDY: Rocket Restaurants

How Rocket Restaurants Increased NPS 20 Points in Six Months With BBI Response Center

About the Brand

Rocket Restaurants: At a Glance

Founded

Ireland in 1989

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Segment

Fast-Casual & QSR

Brands

8

Locations

52

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Reputation Channels

170+

BBI Product Utilization

The Why

Why Rocket Restaurants Needed BBI Response Center

Rocket Restaurants is the umbrella holding for dining brands like Eddie Rocket’s, Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs, Rocket’s and The Counter and three ghost kitchen brands.

Challenges they were looking to solve for included:

  • Unconsolidated brand reputation data

  • It’s previous social media publishing tool was missing restaurant fluency

  • Room for improvement in quality and quantity of CX feedback collected

The Rocket Restaurants group started in 1989 in Dublin, Ireland in a market dominated by global American brands.

Organizational Goals

  1. Increase brand visibility online & offline.
  2. Monitor customer feedback trends in key locations & regions.
  3. Increased digital adoption across the system.

Summary

Overview: Rocket Restaurants + BBI

Why BBI?

An intuitive Customer Experience (CX) solution which aggregates data from all relevant reviews, social media and delivery channels.

This includes direct messages, @mentions surveys and email. Our solution empowers restaurant and hospitality brands to collaborate in a smarter way.

Online Footprint

When testing BBI’s guest experience management platform – BBI Response Center –  during a 3-month proof of concept, Rocket Restaurants saw the potential to replace two software tools, Hootsuite, the social media publishing tool used currently and Zendesk, their customer success and support tool.

First Months Using BBI

During the first six months after implementing BBI, Rocket Restaurants improved NPS on a company level by 20 points, with three brands, Flash Harry’s, Eddie Rocket and Rockets, being the top performers.

Brand Channels Managed via Response Center
48X
Google
14X
Instagram
40X
TripAdvisor
13X
Uber Eats
3OX
Yelp
10X
Takeaway.com
14X
Facebook
2X
Twitter
171
Channels in Total

The Results

Immediate Quantifiable Impact


+20 NPS

Increase during the first six months

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25%

More CX feedback data points

“BBI is a game-changer! It allows us to aggregate our guests’ reviews & sentiment from a multitude of different social media and review channels, including Google, TripAdvisor, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & more, so that we can reply to each guest’s feedback seamlessly into one central dashboard.”

TOBI LUKASCHEK
BUSINESS DEV. MANAGER ROCKET RESTAURANTS

Use Cases

How BBI Delivers Value for Rocket Restaurants

For restaurant brands, the ability to respond quickly and roll out customer experience (CX) improvements across all locations is critical.

A single bad experience can be amplified—and misrepresented—on social media. That’s why gathering as much feedback as possible through online reviews, surveys, emails, and more is essential.

Main Focuses for Rocket Restaurants

Rocket Restaurant has adapted its business model in recent years to reflect market shifts, expanding into both delivery and retail.

These new revenue streams demand deeper, more contextual analysis of customer feedback to ensure the guest experience stays consistent and protected.

01. Workflow Automation
Automatically route negative CX feedback to location managers for quick action.

02. Deep Dive Reporting
Deliver dynamic reports to key stakeholders, tracking customer sentiment and location-level performance.

03. Integrating Food Delivery Apps
Connect delivery platforms while monitoring sentiment and performance across all channels.

Example Use Case

Workflow Automation: How it Works for Rocket Restaurants

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Workflow automation: streamline incoming CX feedback
Our CX feedback solution uses AI to analyze and assign all customer feedback. Based on sentiment, location and so on, it’s routed accordingly.
Managing Rocket Restaurant’s incoming flux of reviews, messages and mentions
Rocket Restaurants has narrowed down what automated processes have the most potential to save the most time.
Urgent items are visible and prioritized for the current stakeholder
Rocket Restaurants align operations and front-line processes to harmonize the customer experience. to another.

Benefits

Bringing Value to Every Team

After a three-month proof-of-concept in 2019, Rocket Restaurants decided to implement our solution company-wide. Marketing, operations, location managers, C-level management, and even the legal department now use it. Benefits by team include:

01. Marketing – More Tasks Done with Less Repetitive Work

The marketing team at Rocket Restaurants spends 50% less time on community management compared to before. This way, the team has more time and energy to take up more tasks and begin new projects.

02. Operations – Better Performance Overview & Franchise Coordination

Operations have a clear, real-time dashboard of customer experience feedback. It includes all locations, both company-owned and franchised. The department can monitor the impact of different changes, collect feedback in a time-efficient manner, and further develop best practices and processes.

03. C Level Management – Every Piece of Customer Feedback is Known & Processed

Departments can make data-driven decisions based on unbiased feedback points. This way, the decision-making process is streamlined, and personal biases or preconceptions are left aside.

04. Location Managers & Front Line – Adapting Better to Local CX Trends

Location managers follow how their units perform against the restaurant chain performance benchmark. It helps empower the frontline colleagues who receive contextual feedback, that helps them grow.

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