Independent restaurants and bars — we build menu-driven websites, run the Google Business Profile, and manage review velocity so your Tuesday is as busy as your Saturday.
More diners see your menu on Google than on your website. If your GBP listing shows no menu, wrong hours, or 3 stars, you lose the booking before anyone clicks through.
A Harvard Business School study found that one additional star on Yelp drove a 5-9% lift in restaurant revenue. The effect is stronger for independents than for chains.
Applebee's, Outback, and the national chains bid on 'dinner near me' in your zip code. We can't out-bid them, but organic + GBP lets you out-rank them for the searches that matter.
Every service below is tuned for restaurants & bars specifically — not a generic marketing stack bent to fit.
Menu, photos, hours, reservations — the 4 things every hungry person wants.
Restaurant websites have one job: sell the first visit. We design yours around the menu, the room, and the hours — with a reservation button that works on a phone while someone's driving.
See how we run this service →Rank for "[cuisine] near [neighborhood]" — not the whole city.
Restaurant SEO lives and dies on neighborhood-level targeting. We build your site to rank for the exact searches your diners make — 'italian restaurant downtown greenville', not 'best food in NC'.
See how we run this service →Menu updates, weekly photos, review response — your most-visited page.
For restaurants, GBP is bigger than your website. We treat it that way: weekly photo updates, menu changes pushed same-day, every review responded to within 24 hours.
See how we run this service →More 4.5-star reviews means more bookings. We install the system.
One extra star on Google is worth more than a full page of ads. We install a QR code on every check, a server training playbook, and a response system that treats every review as a marketing event.
Restaurants don't qualify for Google Guarantee or Google Screened — neither program covers food and drink. What drives restaurant discovery is GBP review velocity (per the Harvard study, an extra Yelp star = 5-9% revenue lift) and menu freshness on the GBP listing. Spend the budget on the cadence work, not on chasing a badge that isn't available.
Hand-picked links for operators in this industry — some ours, some not. We only link to stuff we actually use or recommend.
The industry association — operator benchmarks, labor data, and marketing research worth tracking.
Google's specific guidance for food & drink businesses. Menu markup, photo requirements, post categories.
How we run GBP for restaurants — cadence, photography, review response.
A 15-minute call. We'll tell you exactly what we'd do for your business, and what it would cost.