Digital Marketing for Restaurants & Food Businesses
Full Tables, Direct Orders, and a Friday You Can Predict
Restaurant marketing has a published price on this website: 363 orders and calls at $1.44 each for a local pizza shop. Infinity Digital fills tables and grows direct orders for restaurants, cafes, grocers, and food brands across the GTA and Canada, with every marketing dollar tracked to the order or booking it produced.
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KNOW YOUR TWO SEARCHERS
Two Kinds of Diners, One Kitchen, Zero Wasted Marketing Dollars
Every restaurant is searched by two diners who behave nothing alike, and most restaurant marketing pays for orders it would have won anyway.
THE TONIGHT DINER
best Italian restaurant near me open now
Hungry, undecided, and choosing from the first three listings
The tonight diner opens Google Maps an hour before dinner and picks from what they see first: photos, rating, hours, and a menu that looks current. They don’t browse websites or compare for days. A neglected Google Business Profile with outdated photos and a thin review count loses that table before anyone knows it was in play.
Map-pack ranking
Fresh photos and menu
Review count that keeps growing
THE REPEAT ORDERER
order pizza online
A regular who should never pay the delivery-app tax
The repeat orderer already loves your food and reaches for whichever app is on their phone. Every order through a third-party platform costs you 20 to 30% and keeps the customer’s data with the app. Moving these regulars to direct ordering keeps the full margin and lets you reach them again without paying for it.
Direct online ordering
Email and SMS re-engagement
Catering enquiries that reach a real person
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Our Selected Work
We designed and executed a social media strategy for Milestone Restaurants to increase brand awareness and engagement.
Popular Pizza Royal West is a Brampton favourite serving bold Indian-style pizzas loaded with signature spices, fresh toppings, and fast takeout and delivery.
THE RESTAURANT MATH
The Numbers a Food Business Actually Runs On
NUMBER (METRIC)
WHAT IT MEANS FOR A RESTAURANT
HEALTHY SHAPE
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Cost per order or booking
Spend divided by orders produced, per channel
Comfortably inside contribution margin per order
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Direct-vs-app order mix
Share of orders where you keep the whole margin
Rising quarter over quarter
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Repeat rate
Customers ordering a second and third time
Where the real profit in food lives
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Review velocity
New reviews per month, recency, and photos
Decides tonight's "where should we eat"
The commission math alone justifies a marketing program: on a $30 order, the delivery apps take $6 to $9 every single time, forever, while our published direct-acquisition cost ran $1.44 once. Shift twenty repeat orders a week from app to direct and the recovered commissions fund the entire program with room left over, which is why direct-order growth, not raw traffic, is the metric our restaurant reports lead with. The rest of the table compounds the case: the second and third orders arrive at zero acquisition cost, review count and photo freshness decide the map pack that feeds everything, and every number is readable in two minutes between services. The wider click-cost context sits in our Google Ads cost guide.
READY TO CALCULATE YOUR MARKET?
Get an accurate model of your restaurant’s delivery and dine-in radius, competitor ad spend, and the reservation and order potential nearby.
OUR RESTAURANT SERVICES IN DETAIL
Five Services, Each Rebuilt for How People Actually Choose Where to Eat
Every service below exists in general form elsewhere on our site. These are the food-business versions, shaped by appetite, immediacy, margins, and the reality that your customer decides in the time it takes a light to change.
Website Design for Restaurants
A restaurant website has three jobs, in strict order: show the food, answer tonight's questions, and take the order or booking directly. We build restaurant sites that do exactly that: menus as fast, searchable HTML rather than the PDF that tortures phones, photography given room to sell because the photo is the product, and the tonight-questions (hours, location, parking, reservations, dietary options) answered without a single unnecessary tap. Direct online ordering gets wired front and centre so the margin the apps take stays in your till, reservation systems integrate where table service rules, and the catering enquiry gets its own path with its own form, because a $2,000 function deserves better than the general contact page. For food brands and grocers, eCommerce builds carry the catalogue with the same speed discipline. And speed is the discipline: hungry people do not wait for hero videos, and a menu that loads in a second at a red light wins the order that a three-second load loses.
Example: Chalo Freshco and Diet and Fit show the range, grocery presence and prepared-food ordering, each built around how its specific customer actually buys, while Milestones sits on the dining-brand side.
- Fast, easy-to-manage sites for Mississauga service businesses and clinics
- SEO-ready structure from launch
- Ongoing support and updates
Local SEO for Restaurants
"Best butter chicken near me" is decided in the map pack, tonight, by rating, photos, and recency, and our local SEO program treats your Google Business Profile as the second storefront it genuinely is. The profile work runs weekly, not quarterly: dish-level photos refreshed on schedule (food photography ages like food), menu and attributes kept current, posts carrying specials and events, Q&A seeded with what your host stand answers nightly, and the review engine managed deliberately, volume, recency, photo reviews, and owner responses, because all four rank you and all four reassure the couple deciding from the car. Around the profile: cuisine and neighbourhood pages that catch every way your city searches food ("halal pizza Brampton," "patio brunch Port Credit"), location pages per storefront for multi-unit operators, and the 3-Pack mechanics published on our blog, executed relentlessly. Expect meaningful pack movement in 60 to 90 days, and expect it to matter more every quarter, because the pack position plus a deep, fresh review base is a moat no competitor's ad budget can jump.
Example: local-category ownership, quantified: PetCare Partners at 13,600+ monthly visitors and a 51% share of local search traffic, the same profile-and-pages architecture that decides who fills up on a Friday.
- Mobile-first storefronts for Mississauga retailers
- Fast, secure checkout
- Inventory and order management
Google Ads and Meta Ads for Food
Food ads work when they respect food margins, and the Royal West build is the template we scale: order-intent keywords ("pizza delivery [area]," "[cuisine] near me open now"), radius targeting drawn to your real delivery zones rather than Google's generous defaults, dayparting matched to your kitchen's hours and hungriest windows so budget spends when you can actually serve, negatives blocking recipe hunters, job seekers, and "how to make" searches, and landing pages where the menu and the order button are the hero. That structure produced 363 conversions at $1.44 each, and it transfers. Meta and Instagram Ads carry the visual side, new-item drops, catering pushes, event nights, where food's native advantage (nothing on a feed outperforms it) does the heavy lifting, and retargeting quietly brings back the customer who ordered once and forgot you exist, the cheapest order in the entire funnel. Everything reports to cost per order against contribution margin, and the account inherits the twelve-leak discipline from our Google Ads mistakes guide.
Example: 363 conversions at $1.44 each is not a projection; it is a published case study with the structure documented, and it is the standard your campaigns are built to.
- Fully custom builds for complex Mississauga business needs
- No template limitations
- Built around your exact workflow
Branding for Food Businesses
Food branding is appetite plus memory: the look that makes someone hungry and the consistency that makes them remember where that feeling came from. Our branding studio builds identities that look right on the awning, the takeout box, the app icon, and the patio umbrella; design kits for menus, packaging, signage, and the table-talkers and loyalty cards that keep every touchpoint on-brand; social media branding that turns your kitchen's daily output into a feed people follow hungry, with content rhythms your busiest week can still sustain; and video, because nothing on the internet sells food like food moving, steam rising, cheese pulling, and the fifteen-second clip that fills a Tuesday. For multi-location and franchise operators, the whole system is built to replicate cleanly per unit while the brand compounds across them, and packaging deserves its special mention: the takeout bag riding an elevator is the cheapest billboard in your city.
Example: Milestones Restaurant sits on the recognizable-dining-brand side of our portfolio, and the pattern across our food clients is consistent: places that look as good as they taste convert more of the attention their SEO and ads buy.
- Secure payment processing for Mississauga eCommerce brands
- Product catalog management
- Built to scale with your store
AI Search Visibility for Restaurants
"Where should we eat tonight," "best ramen in Mississauga," "restaurants near me good for a birthday dinner": diners now ask AI assistants, and the answers name restaurants, synthesized from profiles, reviews, photos, and local coverage. Our GEO work makes yours one of the names: entity data consistent everywhere machines verify you, menu and dish content structured for AI extraction (real dish names, dietary information, honest price ranges, the details an assistant can safely repeat), and the review corroboration AI answers lean on hardest in hospitality, where sentiment is the product. The behavioural stakes are measured: Pew's research shows traditional-result clicks roughly halving when an AI answer appears, and AI-referred visitors convert at multiples of standard traffic, which for a restaurant means the recommendation increasingly is the reservation. Food's citation seats are still nearly empty in most Canadian cities, and hospitality is a category where early, consistently-cited names stick, because every new review corroborates the recommendation the assistant already made. Method public in our GEO guide.
- High-converting landing pages for Mississauga campaigns
- Fast to launch
- Built to capture leads, not just traffic
Our Process
From Audit to a Friday You Can Predict
Free Audit.
Your profile, reviews, site, delivery-app dependence, and any ads, reviewed against the restaurants winning your neighbourhood's searches, with the leaks ranked by margin impact.
Includes:
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Target Audience
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Pain Points
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Goals & KPIs
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Local Competitors
Ready to see how your restaurants ranks in Mississauga?
Growth Plan
Direct-order strategy, budget, dayparts matched to your kitchen, and cost-per-order targets your contribution margin approves, on one page readable between services.
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Sitemap
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Wireframes
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Content Structure
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User Flow
Ready to turn your restaurants data into a growth plan?
Launch
Profile rebuilt, site or ordering live, campaigns on, review workflow running, tracking wired to the order.
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Visual Identity
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Brand Alignment
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Responsive Layouts
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Client Review
Ready to launch a restaurants website that brings in new clients?
Monthly Report
Orders and bookings by source, cost per order, direct-versus-app mix, review growth, and what changes next month.
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Clean Code
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Mobile Testing
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Integrations
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Functionality QA
Ready to see your restaurants results every month?
Google Verified Reviews
What Clients Say on Google
Real 5-star ratings and authentic feedback from businesses we work with across Toronto & Mississauga.
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Our Expertise
Industries We Serve
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Local SEO: Improve visibility in local search and Google Maps.
Lead Generation: Attract new patients through targeted advertisements.
Online Reputation: Gain credibility through positive feedback and patient-oriented content.
Law Firms
We help legal practices to gain online reputation, enhance their visibility, and reach out to customers looking for legal assistance. Our online marketing efforts are aimed at providing customers with legal expertise, enhancing their trust in the company, and generating inquiries for the services offered by trying to establish a trustworthy and authoritative image of the brand.
SEO for Legal Services: Target the search terms relevant to law and legal professions.
Client Acquisition: Use marketing techniques to generate queries from customers.
Authority Building: Build your reputation and create an image of authority among your customers.
Healthcare
Through the application of digital marketing strategies that stress the importance of reliability, accessibility, and visibility, we assist various healthcare providers in expanding their patient reach. Information on medical services, the details of treatment, and connection with healthcare providers can be easier to find through our solutions, which are meant for various healthcare practitioners, such as hospitals and specialty medical office practitioners.
Healthcare SEO: Enhance the visibility of required medical services.
Patient Involvement: Provide patients with relevant and informative content.
Digital Advertising: Attract appropriate audiences with focused marketing campaigns.
Dermatology
We assist practitioners in dermatology and skin-related clinics in attracting patients who are interested in skin health, beauty, and medical dermatology. With the help of specialized internet campaigns and interesting content, we demonstrate their USPs. From therapeutic skills and building patient trust to growing clinic visibility and facilitating sustainability, we do it all.
Treatment-Focused SEO: Get access to patients who are seeking a particular type of skin therapy.
Social Media Marketing: Demonstrate available services and skin care knowledge.
Targeted Advertising: Attract adequate requests for dermatology services.
Automotive Businesses
Your auto enterprise will drive customers through the use of AI-supported internet marketing efforts. Whether your business is a dealership, garage, or repair shop, you will be able to advertise your business effectively, improve your reputation, and build connections with clients.
Automotive SEO: Position for sales and servicing.
Customer Leads: Get new clients and calls.
AI Advertising: Target potential buyers and service customers.
Construction Companies
Demonstrate your work and get closer to new customers with the help of AI-based digital marketing for construction companies. Increase visibility on the Internet, demonstrate your expertise, and establish contacts with property developers and companies looking for construction services. Our approach is aimed at increasing the number of project inquiries.
Construction SEO: Rank for construction and renovation services.
Project Leads: Attract developers and prospective construction clients.
AI Targeting: Reach relevant audiences and improve lead quality.
Finance and Insurance
Make use of digital marketing driven by AI in order to reach new customers in the financial and insurance industry while simultaneously achieving trust with them. Our programs enhance your online standing, advertise your products, and help you find the right clients for your company. Acquire numerous leads, improve your company's online reputation, and attain success.
Financial SEO: Optimize your site to rank for relevant financial service searches.
Qualified Leads: Generate insurance and consultation inquiries.
AI Insights: Refine targeting and improve campaign performance.
Home Services
Our AI technology allows home service companies to generate leads, reach people in their desired location, and organize service requests for their clients. Implementing our marketing plans gives our clients an opportunity to become more visible in the local market. The more attractive and convincing the offer is, the more requests you will get.
Local SEO: Reach homeowners searching for nearby services
Service Leads: Generate repair and installation inquiries.
AI Targeting: Find promising service areas and customers
Manufacturing
Use digital marketing methods based on artificial intelligence to reach more customers and improve your sales in the manufacturing field. Our technology improves the visibility of your products in search engines and enables your clients to see that you are an expert in your business. Thus, reach potential clients and create opportunities for partnerships in the future.
Industrial SEO: Rank for manufacturing-related searches.
B2B Leads: Connect with buyers and distributors.
AI Targeting: Identify prospects and improve campaign performance.
Restaurants and Food Businesses
You can implement AI-powered digital marketing techniques to procure more customers for your restaurant or food business. Concentrate your efforts toward your local food market by advertising your meals on social media platforms. This practice will also allow you to improve your online reputation and attract many more repeat customers to your establishment.
Local SEO: Use Google Maps to draw in diners in your area.
Menu promotion: Highlight dishes, deals, and unique occasions.
AI Advertising: Provide diners with pertinent offers.
SaaS and Technology Companies
Improve product visibility and attract quality prospects through the use of digital marketing for those who develop SaaS and tech. By utilizing our strategies, your product will be seen by potential customers, enabling you to get to decision-makers and stimulate inquiries about the product. Ranging from search optimization to customer acquisition, our primary focus is to boost your presence in the market.
SaaS SEO: Rank for relevant software searches.
Trial Conversions: Generate demos, sign-ups, and product inquiries.
AI Optimization: Improve targeting and customer acquisition.
Startups
Harness the power of modern digital marketing to establish yourself. Effectively reach your desired clientele. Digital marketing for startups acts as a means to build a remarkable brand and identify new ways to reach customers. Moreover, it facilitates newly formed companies in implementing even better marketing strategies. We make you stand apart from your competition.
Brand Awareness: Create awareness among targeted audiences.
Lead Generation: Attract potential customers through targeted campaigns.
AI Insights: Analyze trends and generate optimal marketing strategies.
Vet Clinics
Using AI in digital marketing has enabled veterinary clinics to reach out to more pet owners. This enhances their visibility in local searches and gains authentic customer reviews. Our techniques focus on the practices of veterinary medicine and help clients seek out services. We assist with everything, starting from marketing unique treatments and continuing to raising local search rankings.
Local SEO: Improve visibility on Google Maps.
Pet Engagement: Promote vaccinations, checkups, and preventive care.
AI Marketing: Optimize campaigns and increase appointment bookings.
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Our Expertise
Industries We Serve
Dental Clinics
We support dental practices in earning more patients and developing a reliable online reputation thanks to our targeted digital marketing plans. We help dental practices increase their visibility in local search engines. Besides this, we highlight their different services. Thus, we help clinics connect with patients looking for good dental care and form long-term relationships with them.
Local SEO: Improve visibility in local search and Google Maps.
Lead Generation: Attract new patients through targeted advertisements.
Online Reputation: Gain credibility through positive feedback and patient-oriented content.
Law Firms
We help legal practices to gain online reputation, enhance their visibility, and reach out to customers looking for legal assistance. Our online marketing efforts are aimed at providing customers with legal expertise, enhancing their trust in the company, and generating inquiries for the services offered by trying to establish a trustworthy and authoritative image of the brand.
SEO for Legal Services: Target the search terms relevant to law and legal professions.
Client Acquisition: Use marketing techniques to generate queries from customers.
Authority Building: Build your reputation and create an image of authority among your customers.
Healthcare
Through the application of digital marketing strategies that stress the importance of reliability, accessibility, and visibility, we assist various healthcare providers in expanding their patient reach. Information on medical services, the details of treatment, and connection with healthcare providers can be easier to find through our solutions, which are meant for various healthcare practitioners, such as hospitals and specialty medical office practitioners.
Healthcare SEO: Enhance the visibility of required medical services.
Patient Involvement: Provide patients with relevant and informative content.
Digital Advertising: Attract appropriate audiences with focused marketing campaigns.
Dermatology
We assist practitioners in dermatology and skin-related clinics in attracting patients who are interested in skin health, beauty, and medical dermatology. With the help of specialized internet campaigns and interesting content, we demonstrate their USPs. From therapeutic skills and building patient trust to growing clinic visibility and facilitating sustainability, we do it all.
Treatment-Focused SEO: Get access to patients who are seeking a particular type of skin therapy.
Social Media Marketing: Demonstrate available services and skin care knowledge.
Targeted Advertising: Attract adequate requests for dermatology services.
Automotive Businesses
Your auto enterprise will drive customers through the use of AI-supported internet marketing efforts. Whether your business is a dealership, garage, or repair shop, you will be able to advertise your business effectively, improve your reputation, and build connections with clients.
Automotive SEO: Position for sales and servicing.
Customer Leads: Get new clients and calls.
AI Advertising: Target potential buyers and service customers.
Construction Companies
Demonstrate your work and get closer to new customers with the help of AI-based digital marketing for construction companies. Increase visibility on the Internet, demonstrate your expertise, and establish contacts with property developers and companies looking for construction services. Our approach is aimed at increasing the number of project inquiries.
Construction SEO: Rank for construction and renovation services.
Project Leads: Attract developers and prospective construction clients.
AI Targeting: Reach relevant audiences and improve lead quality.
Finance and Insurance
Make use of digital marketing driven by AI in order to reach new customers in the financial and insurance industry while simultaneously achieving trust with them. Our programs enhance your online standing, advertise your products, and help you find the right clients for your company. Acquire numerous leads, improve your company's online reputation, and attain success.
Financial SEO: Optimize your site to rank for relevant financial service searches.
Qualified Leads: Generate insurance and consultation inquiries.
AI Insights: Refine targeting and improve campaign performance.
Home Services
Our AI technology allows home service companies to generate leads, reach people in their desired location, and organize service requests for their clients. Implementing our marketing plans gives our clients an opportunity to become more visible in the local market. The more attractive and convincing the offer is, the more requests you will get.
Local SEO: Reach homeowners searching for nearby services
Service Leads: Generate repair and installation inquiries.
AI Targeting: Find promising service areas and customers
Manufacturing
Use digital marketing methods based on artificial intelligence to reach more customers and improve your sales in the manufacturing field. Our technology improves the visibility of your products in search engines and enables your clients to see that you are an expert in your business. Thus, reach potential clients and create opportunities for partnerships in the future.
Industrial SEO: Rank for manufacturing-related searches.
B2B Leads: Connect with buyers and distributors.
AI Targeting: Identify prospects and improve campaign performance.
Restaurants and Food Businesses
You can implement AI-powered digital marketing techniques to procure more customers for your restaurant or food business. Concentrate your efforts toward your local food market by advertising your meals on social media platforms. This practice will also allow you to improve your online reputation and attract many more repeat customers to your establishment.
Local SEO: Use Google Maps to draw in diners in your area.
Menu promotion: Highlight dishes, deals, and unique occasions.
AI Advertising: Provide diners with pertinent offers.
SaaS and Technology Companies
Improve product visibility and attract quality prospects through the use of digital marketing for those who develop SaaS and tech. By utilizing our strategies, your product will be seen by potential customers, enabling you to get to decision-makers and stimulate inquiries about the product. Ranging from search optimization to customer acquisition, our primary focus is to boost your presence in the market.
SaaS SEO: Rank for relevant software searches.
Trial Conversions: Generate demos, sign-ups, and product inquiries.
AI Optimization: Improve targeting and customer acquisition.
Startups
Harness the power of modern digital marketing to establish yourself. Effectively reach your desired clientele. Digital marketing for startups acts as a means to build a remarkable brand and identify new ways to reach customers. Moreover, it facilitates newly formed companies in implementing even better marketing strategies. We make you stand apart from your competition.
Brand Awareness: Create awareness among targeted audiences.
Lead Generation: Attract potential customers through targeted campaigns.
AI Insights: Analyze trends and generate optimal marketing strategies.
Vet Clinics
Using AI in digital marketing has enabled veterinary clinics to reach out to more pet owners. This enhances their visibility in local searches and gains authentic customer reviews. Our techniques focus on the practices of veterinary medicine and help clients seek out services. We assist with everything, starting from marketing unique treatments and continuing to raising local search rankings.
Local SEO: Improve visibility on Google Maps.
Pet Engagement: Promote vaccinations, checkups, and preventive care.
AI Marketing: Optimize campaigns and increase appointment bookings.
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FAQ
Restaurant Marketing, Asked and Answered
1. What should a restaurant spend on marketing?
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A single location doing steady covers commonly runs $750 to $2,000 monthly including management, with ad spend governed by one number: cost per order against contribution margin per order. At $1.44 per conversion, our published benchmark, the math funds itself quickly; the audit prices your specific neighbourhood before you commit.
2. The delivery apps already send us orders. Why spend more?
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Because they charge 20 to 30% forever for customers who believe they are the app's customers, not yours. The play is not quitting the apps; it is shifting repeat orders direct, where the whole margin and the customer data stay with you, and where a $1.44 acquisition beats a $7 commission on every order after the first.
3. Do reviews really decide that much for restaurants?
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More than anything else a diner sees before tasting: rating, recency, photos, and your responses are the menu before the menu, they decide the map pack, and they increasingly decide the AI answers. That is why the weekly review engine sits inside every restaurant engagement rather than being sold as an add-on.
4. Can you help with catering, events, and private dining?
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Yes, as their own funnels: separate keywords, pages, and forms, because a $2,000 function enquiry deserves better than the general contact form, and its cost per lead is judged against a completely different ticket. Catering is the highest-margin demand most restaurants leave unmarketed.
5. We are a new restaurant. When should marketing start?
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Before the doors open: the profile, the site, and the review plan should exist at soft launch, because opening-window curiosity is the cheapest attention you will ever get and the reviews it generates seed everything after. New spots that launch loud locally start the flywheel a year ahead of the ones that wait.
6. We are multi-location. Does this scale?
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Cleanly: profile and page architecture per unit, review engines per unit, brand and content systems shared, and reporting that shows each location its own numbers plus the roll-up. Franchise operators get the replication kit as part of the build.
7. nstagram or Google, which matters more for a restaurant?
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Different jobs, both real: Google (map pack and search) captures the decided-and-hungry; Instagram creates the craving and the occasion. The split in your plan follows your model, delivery-heavy leans Google, destination-dining leans visual, and the tracking tells us monthly whether the split is right.
8. How fast does this produce orders?
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Paid campaigns: orders in the first week is normal; that is what they are for. Map pack: 60 to 90 days to meaningful movement. The full system, direct orders growing, app dependence shrinking, repeat rate climbing, matures over one to two quarters, and the monthly report shows the curve as it happens.
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