Tables full, slow shifts covered, and a path from craving to booked table that takes fewer taps than the place down the street.
The food and the room are the pitch. The job here is getting them in front of the right locals and making the next step, a table or an order, take one tap.
Real dishes, well lit, in motion. Menu photography and short video beat every stock plate and generic promo in the category combined.
Resy, OpenTable, Toast, DoorDash, whatever you run. A sticky action on mobile and no dead ends that force a phone call.
For a restaurant, the Google Business Profile drives more covers than the website. Photos, hours, a menu link, and review velocity carry most of the weight.
Your food already lives on Instagram and TikTok. We connect it to the reservation and order flow instead of letting it sit there as a highlight reel.
A menu people can read on a phone, with the high-margin dishes where the eye lands. Your menu is a sales page, not a buried PDF.
Friday night books itself. We run offers aimed at Tuesday dinner and the dead 3pm, which is where the margin is left on the table.
Within 90 days, your blended ROAS improves, or we work for free: the next month's on us. No fine print.
Read the Guarantee↗Most restaurants do not need a full ad program to start. Local SEO from $500/mo, a template site build from $1,500, and paid ads from $750/mo. If the Google profile is the only gap, we will say so.
Always. A readable, current menu with prices is the single most requested thing and the most common thing restaurants hide. Hiding it sends people to the place that shows it.
Then volume is the wrong goal. The work becomes better shifts, higher-margin dishes, fewer no-shows, and a waitlist strong enough that you can raise prices without losing the room.
Yes, as the hub that owns the relationship. The delivery apps take a cut and the customer, and social is rented. Your site and Google profile are the assets you keep.
Yes. Multiple locations change the structure: separate Google profiles, separate location pages, and reporting per location so one strong room does not hide a weak one.
A restaurant is not chosen the way a plumber is. People pick a place on the food, the room, and the reviews, and they decide in seconds on a phone. We have worked across $50M+ in ad spend for 2000+ brands over twelve years, and in this category the marketing job is more specific than most agencies admit.
1) Put the food first. The plate is the pitch. Real dishes, well lit, in motion, plus a menu that reads clean on a phone. A restaurant with great photos and a weak site will outbook the reverse every time.
2) Remove every tap between craving and table. Reserving or ordering should be one action from anywhere, on whatever platform you already run. "Call to book" quietly loses a younger crowd that will simply not make the call.
3) Win the map, then fill the slow shifts. The Google Business Profile does more for discovery here than the website, so photos, hours, the menu link, and review velocity come first. Once the map works, the opportunity is Tuesday dinner, not another packed Friday.
| Channel | Why it earns its place |
|---|---|
| Google Business Profile | The highest-leverage thing in this category and it costs nothing. Photos, hours, menu link, and review velocity. Start here before anything paid. |
| Local SEO | "Restaurants near me," "brunch," "happy hour," and the dish and cuisine terms locals actually search. Compounds instead of stopping when spend stops. |
| Instagram + TikTok | Where the food already travels and where the audience already is. The job is connecting it to reservations and orders, not posting into the void. |
| Paid social | Useful for an opening, a new menu, or a slow season. Rarely the right first spend for an established room with a decent map presence. |
| Email and SMS | Birthdays, specials, and win-back for regulars who have drifted. Cheap, unglamorous, and it does more for revenue than most new-customer campaigns. |
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