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Lubbock runs on a Saturday schedule: planning posts and replies around game days
In Lubbock, a home football Saturday changes traffic, hours and what customers ask about. So do move-in week, finals and the cotton harvest out on the South Plains. This page walks through a fall Saturday at a Depot District restaurant, then shows how to plan posts and replies around the dates that really drive your week.
- Game-day posts scheduled days ahead, adjusted in one click if kickoff moves
- Questions about hours, parking and tables answered while you work
- Confirmation and reminder emails for every booking
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Game day
A home game Saturday at a restaurant in the Depot District
A made-up example. The restaurant has table capacity per time slot, game-day hours and a parking note saved in AYDUKE. Kickoff is at 2:30 p.m.
- 8:00 a.m.Overnight, the assistant answered fourteen messages from Instagram, Facebook Messenger and the website chat. Eleven people asked about tables after the game. Nine got one; two were offered Sunday brunch instead.
- 10:30 a.m.A scheduled post goes out on Instagram, Facebook and the Google Business Profile: open until midnight, kitchen until 11, no reservations for the bar.
- 1:00 p.m.A parent in town for the game asks about a high chair and a quiet table. The answer comes from the restaurant’s entries.
- 6:15 p.m.The game ends. A group of twelve writes in. Groups over eight are set to need staff approval, so the conversation is flagged for the manager.
- 11:30 p.m.The manager checks the inbox once, approves the group for Sunday and logs off.
The dates that move a Lubbock business
A rough guide. Your own dates depend on your trade and your customers.
| When | What changes | What to schedule |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-August | Students and families arrive for move-in | Welcome posts, hours, student offers, directions from campus |
| Fall Saturdays | Home games fill the city | Game-day hours a few days ahead, a short reminder that morning |
| Late fall | Harvest on the South Plains | Early and late hours for farm families, posts in local Facebook groups |
| December | Finals, graduation, holidays | Graduation dinners, gift cards, holiday closures |
| Spring | Wind, dust and spring events | Short notices if you close or change hours |
Kickoff times are sometimes set only a week or two out. Schedule the post anyway and change the time on the calendar when you know.
Hub City: what Lubbock looks like from behind the counter
Lubbock is the commercial and medical center for a wide stretch of West Texas and eastern New Mexico. Texas Tech and its health sciences center bring tens of thousands of students and staff, the hospitals draw patients from small towns hours away, and the surrounding South Plains are among the largest cotton-growing areas in the country, with a growing number of vineyards.
For a salon in Tech Terrace, a coffee shop near campus or a barbershop on the south side, this creates two kinds of customers. Some live here year-round and write when they need something. Others come in waves, for school, for a game, for a hospital visit, and they ask the same practical questions: are you open, where do I park, can I book for tonight.
Those waves are predictable. That is the point of planning around them: posts written on a quiet Tuesday go out on the busy Saturday, and the assistant handles the questions those posts bring in.
Lubbock trades that feel the calendar most
Each industry page goes deeper into typical questions and booking setups.
Restaurants and bars
Game days, graduation dinners, groups. More: Restaurants, Sports bars, BBQ restaurants.
Hair and grooming
Move-in week, formals, graduation photos. More: Hair salons, Barbershops.
Coffee and bakeries
Study crowds, finals hours, holiday orders. More: Coffee shops, Bakeries.
Auto and home services
Dust, wind and long drives wear things out. More: Auto repair shops, HVAC contractors.
Tutoring
Midterms, finals, entrance exams. More: Tutoring centers, Test prep centers.
Move-in week: a parent messages a barbershop
A made-up conversation over Instagram DM. Services, times and payment notes are in the shop’s entries.
The open times come from the shop’s calendar, not from the AI. The shop gets a text and an email about the new booking. Customers get confirmation and reminder emails; AYDUKE does not send text reminders to customers in the US.
Before the fall rush: a short checklist
- Connect Instagram, your Facebook Page and your Google Business Profile through your own developer app with OAuth; the panel has a step-by-step guide for each one
- Add game-day hours, parking tips and group rules as entries so the assistant answers them the same way every time
- Set capacity per time slot and decide whether large groups need your approval
- Draft four or five posts for move-in week and the first home games, then schedule them once dates are set
- Add handoff keywords like allergy, refund or complaint so those conversations come straight to you
- Turn on draft mode for the first week and read what the assistant suggests before it goes out
Hire a Lubbock social media agency, or run the routine in-house?
AYDUKE is not an agency and does not write your content. It is software that schedules what you or your team prepare, posts it on time and answers the messages that follow.
In-house
You write posts on a slow afternoon and schedule them for every account at once. Before anything is scheduled, AYDUKE checks caption length, media type and file size for each platform, so a post that would fail never goes into the queue.
With an agency, or as one
Keep the agency for photos and campaigns and let it schedule in the same panel. Freelancers who handle several Lubbock clients can manage all their accounts in one place within their plan’s account limit and send monthly reports as XLSX or CSV. The free reseller program at /bayilik.php pays commission for referred businesses for as long as they stay paying customers. AYDUKE has no office in Lubbock; it is online software run from the United Kingdom.
Schedule your next game-day post in the demo
Open a free demo account with no credit card. Every platform and the core features are unlocked, and AI credits are included.
Frequently asked questions
Kickoff changed after I scheduled my post. Do I have to start over?
No. Change the time on the calendar and the post is rescheduled for every account you picked.
Can customers get a text reminder before their appointment?
Not in the US. Customers get confirmation and reminder emails with a link to view or cancel. You get new bookings by text and email.
Many of our customers write in Spanish. What happens then?
You set the reply language in the panel. Pick the one that reaches most of your customers and note in your entries which languages your staff speak.
Does scheduling posts use AI credits?
No. Posting, the calendar, the media library and reports use no credits. Only the assistant’s replies do.
How do I pay?
By card through Stripe, where card details never touch AYDUKE’s servers, or by bank transfer. See plans for details.
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