Marketing Assistant

Company Description Tandoori Flame Restaurants is recognized as North America’s largest Indian buffet and restaurant, with over 18 years of history in Canada. The restaurant offers more than 12,000 sq ft of dining space and over 400 seats, providing a large-scale, high-energy dining experience. Known for high-quality Indian cuisine and exceptional hospitality, with three locations in Canada, Tandoori Flame has become a preferred destination for guests seeking authentic and diverse Indian dishes. The team is focused on delivering memorable experiences through attentive service, consistent food quality, and a welcoming atmosphere. Joining Tandoori Flame means contributing to a well-established brand with strong community presence and growth potential.

Role Description The Marketing Assistant is a full-time, on-site role based at Tandoori Flame in Mississauga, ON. This role supports day-to-day marketing activities, including assisting with promotions, campaigns, and seasonal offers, and helping coordinate in-restaurant events and special initiatives. The Marketing Assistant will gather and organize customer feedback, support basic market research efforts, and help maintain a consistent brand presence across channels, such as social media, sales pipelines, newsletters and in-store guest experience. Daily responsibilities also include collaborating with the operations and customer service teams to promote guest offers, supporting sales and marketing initiatives, and preparing basic reports on campaign performance and customer engagement.

Qualifications

• Social media & trends: Hands-on experience creating content for Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube Shorts, with a sharp eye for trends, strong hooks and shareable content with viral potential.
• Photography & video: Able to independently shoot and edit food photography, restaurant videos, Reels, guest celebrations and promotional content.
• Design & copywriting: Skilled in Canva or Adobe tools to create promotional graphics, in-store signage and digital assets. Able to write compelling captions, newsletters, promotional emails and text messages.
• Campaigns & sales: Able to support seasonal campaigns, festivals and special offers, connecting social media, email, SMS and in-store promotions to drive visits, repeat business and bookings.
• Guest experience: A strong eye for improving the full guest journey - from discovering Tandoori Flame online and making an inquiry to arriving, dining, celebrating and returning.
• Celebrations & private parties: Confident supporting birthday, anniversary, group dining and private-party promotions, responding to inquiries and helping turn interest into confirmed bookings.
• Research & results: Comfortable tracking content engagement, campaign responses, guest feedback and booking results to identify what works and improve future promotions.
• Broader media: Curious and resourceful about exploring influencer partnerships, community collaborations, radio, TV and other channels that reach new guests.
• Versatility & ownership: A proactive, organised all-rounder who can move between creative work, guest engagement and campaign execution - eager to learn new skills and follow ideas through to results.

Restaurant, hospitality or consumer-brand marketing experience is an asset. Bring examples of content, designs or campaigns you’ve helped create.