AFG August Marketing Review
AFG

August 2026 Marketing Review

Al Fresco’s Group Vietnam · Al Fresco’s · Pepperonis · Miss Q’s · Lola’s · Papa Joe’s
Period
1–31 Aug 2026
Outlets
27 ALF · 11 PEP
Currency
VND, excl. VAT
Compiled
12 Sep 2026
01

Group revenue

POS monthly revenue comparison, Jan 2024 – Aug 2026

Brand scorecard — August

Revenue excl. VAT. Miss Q’s and Lola’s were split out of the former Jaspas entity during 2025–26, so their year-on-year lines are not like-for-like — taken together they are 2.81bn₫ against a combined 2.83bn₫ last August, effectively flat.

02

Where the revenue is earned

Net sale by service mode, with Rewards Plus member penetration

Service mode split — Aug 2026

Delivery is only 14% of revenue but is by far the most member-dense channel: two thirds of every delivery dong comes from an identified member, against 15% on takeaway.

Member revenue Non-member revenue

Member penetration by brand & mode

Share of net sale attributable to a Rewards Plus member.

03

The delivery channel shift

Own web/app vs aggregator partners vs phone — the structural story of 2026
Own web & app Partner platforms Phone
Scroll the chart sideways to see the full 32 months.

August year-on-year by channel

Own channel composition

Al Fresco’s online orders, August 2026. iOS remains the single largest own channel; Android is stuck at one in ten.

Aggregator platforms

From the August deck — group figures across all delivery brands.

04

Paid media

Meta + Google, VAT inclusive · offline conversions modelled, see notes

Spend by brand and platform

Spend is the sum of the awareness / interest / consideration / decision stages reported in the August deck, VAT inclusive. Google ROAS is as Google reports it (online conversions only); Meta returns are campaign-level and appear in the leaderboard below because they include modelled offline revenue.

Google Ads ROAS by stage

Three-month trend. Decision-stage ROAS is where both brands earn their return; Pepperonis stepped up hard in August after cutting awareness spend to zero.

Campaign leaderboard — August

Inbox → booking funnel

Budget was deliberately moved out of inbox generation and into conversion in August. The trade landed: enquiries fell 18% but the drop in bookings and covers was steeper.

05

Promotion load

BC365 monthly promotion report · value of bills carrying a deal, not discount given

Promotion-attached bill value as a share of brand revenue

Every bill containing at least one promotion counts once at full bill value, so the bars measure exposure to deal mechanics, not discount cost. Pepperonis runs at nearly twice the group rate — and is the brand whose revenue is flattest.

Top deals by bill value

06

Rewards Plus

75,018 active members · 40.0% of group revenue

Member revenue & spend per bill

Member revenue grew 3.0% on fewer bills — the whole gain is basket size, up 8.1% to 701,169₫.

Visit frequency vs last August

Six-month look-back cohorts. Growth is entirely in the one-visit tier; every repeat tier is smaller than a year ago.

Aug 2025 Aug 2026

New member registrations

4,738 new members in August, a record for the programme and up 3% on July.

Where new members are acquired

Two thirds sign up in a restaurant and a quarter through web delivery. The app and takeaway counters contribute almost nothing — a fixable gap given the app carries 1,797 Al Fresco’s orders a month.

Point redemption — August, year on year

Redemption reached 71% revenue-after-redeem for Al Fresco’s (2025: 69%). Programme cost ran at 2.62% of member revenue, or 3.19% including platform cost.

07

Menu — what actually sold

Top main-menu items by quantity, FOOD division, excluding combo components
Quantity sold, 1–31 Aug 2026
08

Read-out

What the August numbers say

The month was won on basket, not footfall Strength

Group revenue of 43.72bn₫ is up 2.0% on August 2025 and 10.0% on July, but member bills fell from 26,179 to 24,938. Spend per member bill rose 8.1% to 701,169₫. Premium combo mechanics — Sườn Trứ Danh and Bò Hảo Hạng at 595–745k — are doing the work.

Repeat visitation is eroding Risk

Every repeat tier is below last August: 2 visits at 96%, 3 at 91%, 4 at 85%, 5 at 83%, 6+ at 85%. Only the one-visit tier grew (+5.6%). Total active membership is flat YoY at 75,018 because acquisition is refilling a leaking bucket.

Three-month activation cohorts confirm it: of 12,651 members activated Jun–Aug, 11,277 have made exactly one visit and only 45 have reached six.

Aggregators are taking the delivery business Structural

Al Fresco’s partner revenue is up 37.8% YoY to 2.98bn₫ while own web/app fell 5.1% and phone fell 5.9%. Own channels are now 21.2% of delivery revenue, down from 23.8%. Pepperonis is further along: partners up 43.2%, phone down 4.1%.

Margin follows the mix. Partner gross margin runs around 66% before AFG’s own promo funding; an own-channel order carries none of that commission.

Pepperonis is over-promoted and under-growing Watch

Promotion-attached bills equal 58.9% of Pepperonis revenue against 32.2% at Al Fresco’s and 35.4% group-wide. Pepperonis revenue is up just 0.1% YoY. Thursday Deal, Monday Deal and Daily Deal Pizza alone carry 1.34bn₫ of bill value.

Paid media is small and efficient — arguably too small Opportunity

Total August digital spend was 175.5M₫, or 0.40% of revenue. Al Fresco’s Google ROAS rose to 13.81 and Pepperonis to 17.65, both the best of the last three months. Five Al Fresco’s campaigns returned between 59x and 163x on modelled total revenue.

At this spend level the constraint is budget, not efficiency. The honest caveat: offline conversion is modelled at a ~28% match rate and grossed up 3.5x, so the absolute ROAS numbers are indicative.

The inbox cut cost more than it saved Correction

Enquiries fell 17.5% (2,328 → 1,920) but bookings fell 31.4% and covers 23.3%, taking estimated booking revenue from 239.9M₫ to 185.6M₫. Al Fresco’s took the whole hit: 862 messages down to 328. Pepperonis, which kept spending, grew enquiries.

Recommended actions for September

  1. Restore Al Fresco’s inbox budget to roughly the July level and hold conversion spend. The August test produced a 31% booking decline for a saving of a few million dong. Re-run the split with inbox and conversion funded in parallel and measure bookings, not CPNMess.
  2. Put a retention mechanic behind the second visit. 11,277 of 12,651 recent activations have visited once. A triggered second-visit offer inside 21 days is the single highest-leverage flow available; the Klaviyo automation stack already exists.
  3. Reprice the Pepperonis deal ladder before Q4. 59% promo load with 0.1% growth is a value trap. Test removing or repricing one weekday deal (Monday, the weaker of the two at 512M₫ vs Thursday’s 650M₫) and reallocate to New Menu-style product launches, which returned the highest ROAS of any Pepperonis campaign.
  4. Make membership sign-up a step in the app and takeaway flows. Only 2% of new members come from the app and 4% from takeaway, while restaurants deliver 67%. Al Fresco’s app alone processes ~1,800 orders a month with no acquisition contribution.
  5. Set an own-channel defence target and fund it. Own web/app revenue has been flat around 1.6–1.8bn₫ for two years while partner revenue nearly doubled. Decide explicitly whether to defend it — app-exclusive pricing, delivery-fee waivers — or to accept commission and optimise the partner mix instead. Drifting is the expensive option.
Sources & method

Caveats. Meta offline revenue is modelled: roughly 40% of transactions carry member data and about 70% of those match a Facebook profile, so reported conversions are grossed up 3.5×. Promotion figures are the value of bills containing a deal, not discount given. The deck lists identical Meta spend (6,889,392₫) for both Tiệc Hè Tại Nhà and Tuesday Deal, which is likely a transcription error — those two ROAS figures should be treated as approximate. The POS extract and the deck’s brand table agree on group revenue to within 3,000₫; the POS extract is used throughout. Al Fresco’s Hanoi differs by 2.9M₫ (0.02%) and Papa Joe’s by 2.9M₫ between the two sources.