Luna Park Kitchen & Cocktails in San Francisco just joined Twitter this month, and is already on its way to figuring out how to use Twitter to bring more bodies inside and sell more food/drinks:

(Here’s the original tweet.)
This is great stuff. I love to see small businesses doing things like this. It’s right in line with what BakerTweet and Kogi Korean BBQ are doing.
Anyone have more cool examples of small businesses successfully using Twitter? Comments are open.

April 19, 2009 - 1:00 pm
The NY Times had a great article on Twitter on Friday & highlighted the example of a massage parlor in San Francisco who was using it to fill empty space for day-of reservations. Pretty cool.
April 19, 2009 - 5:01 pm
Great article, and the massage parlor thing is just a little part of it — thx DM. I missed that on Friday. Added it to my delicious bookmarks.
April 20, 2009 - 7:35 am
This one’s about a local coffee shop using Twitter to create more walkin traffic, even hosted a Tweetup. http://cli.gs/Eq25nU
This links to a post about a small pizza parlor using Facebook, Twitter, & video to promote special deals. http://cli.gs/2jJ9NX
April 20, 2009 - 11:30 am
Jesse:
Great links. thanks so much.
Dave
April 21, 2009 - 4:59 am
Amazing when Twitter makes such an impact on small businesses! The Twitter-revolution has only begun to show.
April 21, 2009 - 4:11 pm
A couple restaurants in utah get twitter and do it well –
@bevalocoffeeSLC and @blue_lemon are great examples. Blue_lemon is new and they’ve blown up pretty big because of their online marketing efforts
May 21, 2009 - 5:00 pm
[...] a phenomenal opportunity to fill unused inventory and track sales at the same time. Here’s one example of a San Francisco restaurant who “gets it” via Matt McGee; I saw a similar feature on a San Francisco massage parlor (yes, a real one) in the [...]
June 5, 2009 - 12:48 pm
I’ve seen restaurants word of mouth marketing skyrocket because of Twitter