NewswireTODAY - /newswire/ - Greenwich, CT, United States, 2009/08/22 - Connecticut based TFS - Total Food Service has launched a new service to enable businesses in the restaurant and food service industry to avail themselves of the latest social media tools.

"We've had a number of calls from advertisers and restaurant readers asking if we could help them understand exactly what Twitter was and how they might use it to promote their businesses", noted Leslie Klashman, the president and publisher of TFS - Total Food Service.

For the past 19 years, TFS - Total Food Service (totalfood.com) has published a monthly trade publication that has enjoyed a reputation as the nation's leading regional food service trade publication. serving the Metro New York food service marketplace.

"We've prided ourselves in being able to create dynamic marketing strategies for our advertisers and readers," noted Klashman. "Our creation of a Twitter strategy for our customers is a natural extension of the ad design, brochure design, web design and outbound email that our customers have looked to us to create on their behalf."

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications.

TFS-SOCIAL MEDIA was contracted by the NASFT to preview the recent Summer Fancy Food Show at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. TFS-SM provided a daily schedule of Twitter messages-"Tweets" to assist the show in attracting chefs and food service professionals to attend the annual event.

"With simple solutions starting at just $350.00 a month, we're convinced that we will be able to provide a value-added solution to food service companies that don't have the manpower to dedicate on their own to launching a Twitter and social media strategy," Klashman concluded.

Each of the The TFS-SM social media programs feature a turnkey package of Twitter, Facebook, Linked In, You Tube, Wikipedia and blogging based components for the monthly base price of $350.00

Foodservice firms and restaurants seeking a Social Media strategy featuring Twitter are invited to call TFS-SM or contact the firm via email.

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