Marketing for restaurants
Fill the tables. Keep the margin.
Your family’s name is on the menu, the sauce is your grandmother’s, and none of that helps on a dead Tuesday. We market family restaurants, pizzerias, and delis so the dining room fills with people who found YOU, not an app that rents your own customers back to you.
1-833-219-2003 · 90% of the families who hire us stay
The food is great. The Tuesday numbers aren’t.
If you run a family restaurant, you already know the pattern:
- Weekends slammed, midweek nights so quiet you send servers home early
- Delivery apps taking a cut big enough to erase the margin on the order, then keeping the customer’s name, number, and order history for themselves
- One sour review parked at the top of your Google profile like a stain on the tablecloth
- A social feed full of food photos that gets likes from cousins and zero reservations
- Regulars aging out while the new families in town order from a chain because they never heard of you
Most restaurant marketing is either a coupon race to the bottom or an agency posting stock-looking photos and calling it a strategy. Neither fills a dining room. We work with hospitality businesses, including our client Tipi Canna Cafe, and the fix is always the same shape: get found locally, look as good online as the food tastes, and own the customer list so you can bring people back on the nights you choose.
The app doesn’t love your food. It loves your margin. The customer list should belong to the family that cooked the meal.
Why we build direct channels first
The Twin Shores Way, applied to your dining room
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Listen
We learn your menu, your best sellers, your worst nights, and what you want the place to be. A red-sauce institution and a new fast-casual spot need different plans, and we do not do buckets.
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Build the plan together
A written strategy in plain English: which nights we are trying to fill, which searches we need to win, whether catering or events belong in the mix, and what it honestly costs. Curious what leads should cost in this business? Read our straight answer on a good cost per lead for restaurants.
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Do the work
Local SEO so you win “pizza near me” in your own town. Social with your real kitchen, real family, real specials, not a template. And an email and text list you own, so a slow Tuesday can be fixed with one message instead of a paid app placement. On Long Island? We wrote up how restaurant marketing works here specifically.
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Read the results honestly
We measure covers, calls, and orders, not likes. If a tactic is not putting people in seats, we tell you and change it. You see the same numbers we do.
Jacko AI works the front of house while you run the kitchen.
Review velocity, in your voice
For restaurants, review count and freshness decide who gets picked at 6pm. Reviews AI asks happy guests at the right moment and answers every review, glowing or rough, the way you would if you weren’t on the line during dinner rush.
DMs and texts answered while you’re plating
“Are you open Monday?” “Do you take parties of 12?” Conversation AI answers on Instagram, Facebook, and text, and books the table.
Slow night? Send the signal.
One tap sends a special to your whole list through Jacko’s automations. Your list, your customers, no commission.
Straight answers
Can you get us off the third-party delivery apps?
We can make you far less dependent on them. Direct online ordering, a customer list you own, and local search visibility mean more orders come to you at full margin. Some restaurants keep the apps as a discovery channel; the goal is that the apps need you more than you need them.
We got a brutal review. Can you remove it?
Honestly, no one can remove a legitimate review, and anyone who promises to is selling snake oil. What works: a calm, human reply, a steady stream of real reviews from happy guests so one bad night stops being your headline, and fixing whatever caused it if it was fair. We handle the first two with you.
Do you only work with Long Island restaurants?
Long Island is home and we know its dining scene well, but we serve family-owned restaurants nationwide. Our client families run from New York to Florida to Indiana, and the mechanics of filling a dining room travel well.
How fast will we see more covers?
List-driven promotions and review improvements can move numbers within weeks. Winning local search takes 3 to 6 months of honest work. We tell you which is which up front, and you can leave any month if we are not earning the seat at your table.
Your dining room, full. Your customers, yours.
Tell us about your restaurant and your slowest night, and we will tell you honestly what it takes to fix it.
Month to month. Your list, your accounts, your recipes for growth. You own everything from day one.