· Restaurants
Marketing for restaurants
Get picked on Google Maps when people nearby decide where to eat
We keep your listing, menu, hours and photos right, build a site that loads fast on a phone, and run local ads around the hours people actually choose a place.
Your plan in
Restaurants in
Your Growth Website would carry a page for each service in each town you serve, starting with .
How people choose a restaurant.
A lot of restaurant decisions get made on a phone in the parking lot or on the couch. Someone types tacos near me, scans the map and judges you in seconds by your star rating, recent reviews, food photos and whether you are open right now. Then they tap the menu. If it is a blurry PDF or the hours are wrong on a holiday, they pick the next pin. Delivery apps and Instagram feed the rest, but the map listing is where the choice happens.
- restaurants near me
- best brunch near me
- mexican food open now
- private dining room for 20 near me
- restaurants with outdoor seating near me
- family friendly restaurants near me
Examples of what people type. We research the real terms for your area before we build anything.
A page for every restaurant service, in every town.
With a Growth Website ($2,000 one time), each service gets its own page in each town you serve. Here is what that looks like for a restaurant.
- Menu
- Menu in Sacramento
- Menu in Roseville
- Menu in Elk Grove
- and the rest of your towns
- Online Ordering
- Online Ordering in Sacramento
- Online Ordering in Roseville
- Online Ordering in Elk Grove
- and the rest of your towns
- Catering
- Catering in Sacramento
- Catering in Roseville
- Catering in Elk Grove
- and the rest of your towns
- Private Dining
- Private Dining in Sacramento
- Private Dining in Roseville
- Private Dining in Elk Grove
- and the rest of your towns
- plus 4 more services, each with its city pages
Four things every restaurant site needs
A menu written as real text
Menus posted as PDFs or photos load slowly on phones and are hard for Google to read. We build the menu as a page with prices, so a search for a dish can land on it.
Direct online ordering
An order button on your own site that points to your own ordering system, so regulars can skip the delivery app and you keep more of each ticket and the customer's contact.
Hours that match everywhere
Holiday hours, kitchen close times and seasonal changes updated on Google, Apple Maps, Yelp and your site together. Wrong hours cost more trust than a bad review.
Photos people want to order from
Fresh shots of real plates, the dining room and the patio. Unless someone replaces them, the photos from opening week are what customers keep seeing.
Win the map, where most local choices get made.
Primary category to start from: Restaurant, or the cuisine category that fits best, such as Mexican restaurant or Pizza restaurant. Then the details below, kept current every month for $499 a month.
Lead with the cuisine category
A specific primary category like Thai restaurant or Steak house matches searches better than plain Restaurant. We add secondary categories only where they are true.
Keep the menu and attributes current
Google lets restaurants show menu items plus dine-in, takeout, delivery and outdoor seating options. Those details decide whether you show up for a search like patio dinner near me.
Answer reviews like the owner
Short, specific replies to good and bad reviews show the next reader that someone cares. We ask for reviews with receipt and table card links, never with a discount, which breaks Google's rules.
Example listing
How we would run your ads.
Each ad service is $499 a month. Your ad budget is paid straight to Google or Meta, never marked up, and you get a report every week.
Google Ads
For restaurants, Google Ads pay off in narrow lanes. We run search ads on high-intent phrases like catering, private events and group dinners, where a single booking is worth real money. For walk-in traffic we run location ads tied to your Google listing inside a tight radius, scheduled around lunch and dinner. Recipe, job and delivery app searches get excluded, and we track calls, direction requests and order clicks.
Facebook and Instagram
Instagram and Facebook are where people get hungry before they ever search. We run short video of food coming out of the kitchen, new menu items, weekly specials and event nights to people within driving distance. Retargeting reaches people who viewed your menu page. Budgets stay small and steady, and the creative changes often, because the same plate shown for a month stops getting noticed.
Answer the questions before they call.
SEO & AI Search ($499 a month) publishes the answers your customers look for, so Google and AI assistants have a reason to send them to you. Articles we would write first:
- Planning a Rehearsal Dinner: Menus, Room Size and Deposits
- Gluten-Free, Vegan and Allergy Options on Our Menu
- How Our Catering Trays Work for Office Lunches
- The Story Behind Our Most Ordered Dish
- Where to Park and When to Come for a Short Wait
What people now ask AI assistants
- What is a good restaurant near me for a birthday dinner with 12 people?
- Which restaurants nearby have gluten-free options and a patio?
- Where can I get brunch without a long wait this Sunday?
Busy and slow seasons
Weekends, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and graduation season pack the dining room, and December brings holiday parties and gift card sales. January and February tend to run slow after holiday spending, so that is when we push catering, private events and weeknight specials.
The mistake we see most
The usual mistake is letting other sites own your details. Delivery apps, old directories and review sites post wrong hours and stale menus, and customers believe them. One person needs to own every listing and check them all whenever hours or prices change.
Starter $1,499 or Growth $2,000 one time. Monthly services $499 each, or all four for $1,497 a month. 30-day terms.
See this plan for restaurant in your state.
Pick your state and the page fills in your towns.
Do we still need a website if everyone finds us on Google Maps?
Yes. The map listing sends people to your site for the menu, ordering and private events, and Google reads your site to understand what you serve. A Starter Website at $1,499 one time covers the main pages with a real text menu. Hosting and Management at $99 a month includes small text and photo changes, like a price update.
Can you help us move orders off the delivery apps?
We can make ordering direct easier to find: a clear order button on your site and Google listing, ads that point to it and posts that remind regulars it exists. Whether people switch also depends on your pricing and your ordering system, so we look at both together on the consultation call.
How do you get us more Google reviews?
We set up a simple ask: a link or QR code on receipts and table tents, plus follow-up texts if your system sends them. We reply to every review for you. We never buy reviews or trade discounts for them, since Google's rules ban that and it can remove them. Review work is part of Google Business Profile Management at $499 a month.
Is Meta or Google Ads better for a restaurant?
They do different jobs. Meta shows the food to people who were not looking yet, which suits new openings, menu launches and events. Google catches people already searching, which suits catering and private dining. Running both is $898 a month in management with the two-service discount, plus the ad budget you pay Google and Meta directly.
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Talk to us about your restaurant.
Book a free consultation on Google Meet. We will look at your website, your Google listing and who you are up against in your area, then tell you plainly what we would do and what it costs.
