Promotional gifts can be used for more than just advertising your pub. Using branded promotional gifts in your pub is a good way to create a brand impression in the minds of your customers. There are many ways to use promotional gifts around your pub or restaurant to reinforce your brand image. Here are just a few suggestions.

Conference Folders
Conference folders are most often used to hold materials for use at industry conferences, but they also make very distinctive menu holders. In this case, simple is best. An elegant leather folder embossed with your restaurant or pub name makes quite an impression. Choose one with an integral paper clip on the inside cover to hold the printed wine list or Today’s Specials.

Engraved glasses
Serve drinks in glasses printed or engraved with your pub name, but do expect that some of them will wander off with pleased patrons. Most companies specializing in promotional gifts will keep your design and setup so that re-ordering is easy and less expensive than the original order, so your wandering pub glasses will serve as an advertisement wherever they go.

Coasters
Acrylic or vinyl coasters featuring your pub name and logo are another way to extend your brand name around your pub. Branded coasters can increase the visibility of your pub logo while protecting your bar and tabletops from moisture rings. And like printed glasses, if a few wander home with your patrons, it’s all good advertising.

T-shirts
Let your patrons be walking billboards for your service and atmosphere by offering a range of t-shirts printed with your pub name and sign. T-shirts, jackets and caps with your pub name on are a popular range of promotional gifts that your customers will happily pay to own.

Calendars
At holiday time, have a batch of pub calendars printed up to hand out to your customers instead of holiday cards. You can even make them do double duty by including an offer of a complimentary drink during the New Year when your patrons bring in the clip-out coupon. You know that they won’t have just one, after all.

Bottle Openers and Corkscrews
If you do want to use promotional gifts for giveaways at local festivals or just to increase your pub’s visibility, can you think of a better choice than a bottle opener or corkscrew printed with your pub name? Every time your customers pop the top on a beverage, they’ll be thinking of you.

Can coolers and bottle chillers
Another range of promotional gifts that are ideal giveaways for pubs are can coolers and bottle chillers. Whether you use them on premises, at catering events or give them away at festivals and other community events, can coolers and bottle chillers can have every drink in the county sporting your pub’s name.

Think outside the box when considering promotional gifts. Wall clocks, bar mats and other accessories for your pub can all help promote and solidify your brand image. The more cohesive your brand image is, the easier it is for your customers to keep it in mind.