Specialties
Honing Steel Marketing empowers small businesses and entrepreneurs to renew their competitive edge through a platform powerful digital marketing tools, content content creation and fulfillment services customized for each client, including reputation management, social marketing, online listings, custom Web sites, digital advertising, e-mail marketing and more, along with the consulting advice to make the tools work for you.
And through Honing Steel Hospitality, we provide the personal connection and small-business-focused consulting to improve your operations and profitability. The power of two companies in one small business, ready to work for you.
Honing Steel. Renew Your Edge.
History
Established in 2016.
A restaurant's knives become dull with use. Periodically, a chef must use a honing steel to realign the edge of each knife, allowing it to perform more efficiently in the chef's hands.
Just as a knife requires a honing steel to realign its edge, the restaurant itself needs help and guidance to renew its performance and, in essence, its edge on the competition.
In fact, all businesses with hospitality at their core - restaurants, bars, hotels, retailers and more - need to renew themselves and their operations from time to time, to renew their edges. Isn't it time your business honed itself as chefs hone the edges of their knives?
We're Honing Steel Hospitality. Renew your edge.
Meet the Business Owner: Matthew K.
Matthew Kennedy is the President of Honing Steel Hospitality, working with clients to improve their digital marketing presence and hospitality operations. A 17-year veteran of the hospitality industry, Matthew brings extensive experience in restaurant and bar operations for large corporate operations, franchise restaurants & independent operators. Starting as a "Smiling People Greeter" with a T.G.I. Friday's franchise location in 1998 and ending with his position as a multi-unit Director of Operations for three growing locations of the Burgerhaus brand in Indiana, Mr. Kennedy has worked in every position in the full-service casual dining restaurant industry segment. He also opened three restaurant location from the ground up in General Manager & Director of Operations capacities, hiring hundreds of employees and complete management teams, and training them for successful openings in each case. He has the knowledge and experience to help any hospitality-based business more successful!
