Restaurant marketingguides

Every guide we have written for restaurant owners, every service we run, and every city we work in. Pick a topic and read the page that answers it.

9 guides, 6 services and 12 citiesUpdated October 2026

Guides

9 guides
Ramen, steak with fried rice, shrimp fried rice, pad thai and a cheese dip laid out on a marble table, shot from above

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How to get more walk-ins on your slow nights

How to get more walk-ins on slow nights: one night, one offer, one short reel, shown within 1 to 5 miles and judged by sales in week three.

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  1. How to get more private events at your restaurant

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    How to get more private events: answer tonight's inquiry tonight, with a page per room, a short form, a reply in minutes and a deposit paid online.

  2. Restaurant marketing: agency, freelancer or in-house?

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    Restaurant marketing is seven weekly jobs. See what an agency, a freelancer and a marketer on staff each cover, and what we run at our own restaurant.

  3. Should you hire ION Hospitality?

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    Should you hire ION Hospitality? Our 15 published results sorted by kind: most are everyday sales, not events. Who we fit and the questions to ask.

  4. How to increase restaurant catering sales

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    How to increase restaurant catering sales: give catering its own page, show it to offices nearby, answer within minutes and ask for the reorder.

  5. Restaurant grand opening marketing that fills week one

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    Restaurant grand opening marketing, week by week: fill a Monday soft opening with locals, run ads through opening week, then keep week two busy.

  6. Restaurant holiday marketing that borrows the big dates

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    Restaurant holiday marketing: borrow a holiday your crowd already celebrates, sell the whole weekend and start ads weeks out. With a holiday calendar.

  7. How to set a restaurant marketing budget

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    Set a restaurant marketing budget from what one booked party or one stronger week is worth, then work back to a monthly number a few wins pay for.

  8. How much do Facebook ads cost a restaurant?

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    How much Facebook ads cost a restaurant: one real week of spend next to the sales it added, what to measure, and how long to wait before you judge.

Services

6 services
Wooden picnic tables in front of a wall of flowers in the garden at Loreley Beer Garden, the restaurant we own in New York

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Restaurant marketing agency, run by restaurant owners

A restaurant marketing agency run by restaurant owners: content, local ads and a website that takes bookings, done for you nationwide. 0% commissions.

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  1. Restaurant Facebook ads for party planners nearby

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    Restaurant Facebook ads for the neighbors who plan birthdays, office parties and event nights, sent to your rooms and answered fast. Done for you.

  2. Restaurant Instagram ads built on one weekly offer

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    Restaurant Instagram ads built on one weekly offer: shot to stop the scroll, cut into reels, stories and feed posts, and shown to locals every week.

  3. Restaurant TikTok ads seven seconds at a time

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    Restaurant TikTok ads from one shoot day at your place: seven-second clips of your food, posted five times a week, with ads behind the ones locals watch.

  4. Restaurant social media management, done for you

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    Restaurant social media management from people who own a restaurant: a shoot at your place, a library of your own photos and five posts a week you approve.

  5. Restaurant SEO services a page for every search

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    Restaurant SEO services: a search page for every room, occasion and neighborhood you serve, your menu as text, and every page kept current.

Cities

12 cities
The garden at Loreley Beer Garden on Rivington Street in summer, picnic tables beside a flower wall under a canopy

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Restaurant marketing agency in New York City

Restaurant marketing for New York City from owners on Rivington Street since 2003: the visitor calendar and your regulars, planned and advertised apart.

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  1. Restaurant marketing agency in Miami

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    Restaurant marketing for Miami: how a Miami pizzeria added $1,000 a week in week one, and ads planned around Brickell, Wynwood and the two seasons.

  2. Restaurant marketing agency in Orlando

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    Restaurant marketing for Orlando openings and delivery kitchens: a local following before launch, ads inside your delivery area, ordering on your own site.

  3. Restaurant marketing agency in Washington, DC

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    Restaurant marketing for Washington, DC: ads timed to the office week, group dinners, the August recess, and a local following that comes back.

  4. Restaurant marketing agency in New Jersey

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    Restaurant marketing for New Jersey: party rooms filled from your own town and its train station, BYOB rooms sold as they are, and plans for the Shore.

  5. Restaurant marketing agency in Oklahoma City

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    Restaurant marketing for Oklahoma City, a driving city: weekend offers on phones by Wednesday, ads by district and suburb, and shoots at your restaurant.

  6. Restaurant marketing agency in Los Angeles

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    Restaurant marketing for Los Angeles: ads drawn by drive time around your neighborhood, from Koreatown to Abbot Kinney, and a website guests book from.

  7. Restaurant marketing agency in Chicago

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    Restaurant marketing for Chicago: ads for the West Loop, Logan Square and Pilsen, on-site shoots, and offers that carry you from patio season into winter.

  8. Restaurant marketing agency in Austin

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    Restaurant marketing for Austin: ads for South Congress, East Austin and Rainey Street, on-site shoots, and plans for festival weeks and the summer heat.

  9. Restaurant marketing agency in Seattle

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    Restaurant marketing for Seattle: warm on-site content for the gray months, ads for Capitol Hill, Ballard and Fremont, and offers for cruise season.

  10. Restaurant marketing agency in Fort Lauderdale

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    Fort Lauderdale restaurant marketing: ads for Las Olas, Flagler Village and Wilton Drive, on-site shoots, and offers for snowbird season and the boat show.

  11. Restaurant marketing agency in Tampa

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    Restaurant marketing for Tampa: group pages and ads for Gasparilla season and the State Fair, on-site shoots, and offers for Ybor City and SoHo.