Niche 03 / Restaurants & Bistros
A covers-per-night plan for independent neighborhood rooms, a reservation line the host stand trusts, and a bring-them-back loop the kitchen can actually feel on a Tuesday. Same four senior-practitioner channels used on the main engagement line, re-spaced for a market where one busy Tuesday-to-Saturday week covers the month.
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Section 01 / The four channels
Same channels a sharp in-house restaurant marketer would run. Each tied to the reservation book the chef-owner can actually read, not to a vanity follower chart that ships once a month.
Content shot in the room — the pass, the bar, the line cooks plate, the dining room at the eight-top — cut into vertical short-form and a longer weekly reel the chef-owner posts from their account, not a brand account nobody follows. The audience is already local: same zip, same walking radius, same food-magazine habit. The goal is not followers; the goal is reservation-page hits on Tuesday morning.
The single asset a hungry local sees before they decide. Hours synced to the real schedule, the menu updated within twenty-four hours of the print, photos swapped quarterly, and the Q&A answered before a diner has to ask. Most rooms inherit a GBP the host barely opens; we treat it as the front door the diner walks through first.
Campaigns built around the seat the dining room has on a Tuesday and a Wednesday, not around impressions a national agency wants to report on. Dayparted to the pre-theater early seating, the four-top walk-in, and the bar seat at six — the seats the host would otherwise walk. Ad spend billed direct from the restaurant's own ad account, no markup.
A bring-them-back loop the kitchen can read on a Wednesday. Six-week win-back to the lapsed regular, a monthly broadcast the owner pre-approves before it ships, and a seasonal nudge tied to the print calendar. Segmentation built on the reservation book, not a generic newsletter list; the people who ate in October get an October nudge to come back in November.
Section 02 / The niche ledger
The first scoping call reads the room against these four lines. The ninety-day plan is anchored to whichever line the chef-owner most needs to move on a Tuesday.
In most independent neighborhood rooms, the week covers its operating cost off the Friday-and-Saturday covers plus a baseline of mid-week fills. The plan is built around the seats the dining room has on a Tuesday — not around follower growth a social agency wants to report on.
How fast the host stand books Tuesday dinner, Friday lunch, and the pre-theater seating — the line the chef-owner reads every morning. We wire the reservation software so the marketing report reads against covers actually seated, then count the no-shows the line loses along the way, so the report never pretends a held booking is a seated one.
Hours drifting, an outdated menu, a stale photo set — every drift costs a walk-in, and a slow Tuesday is the worst day to lose one. The single asset a hungry local sees before they decide; we audit it monthly and keep it consistent with the kitchen, the host stand, and the print menu all in one voice.
A first-timer is a cover; a regular is a Saturday. The bring-them-back loop is the cheapest cover the dining room books — and the one a chef-owner can actually feel on the line. We anchor the loop to the reservation book the room already keeps.
Section 03 / Testimonial slot
The slot below ships empty by design. The first restaurant client to sign off on a quote lands in this card without rebuilding the page; the founder edits the same RESTAURANTS_TESTIMONIAL_SLOT block in src/lib/niches/copy.ts.
Awaiting quote · Display copy · illustratively scoped
Awaiting client signoff
Display copy · awaiting client signoff
Section 03 / Case-study strip
Approved stories tagged restaurant pull live from the same /case-studies intake that drives the editorial grid. The strip below shows whatever row-set carries the restaurant tag this quarter — empty until the first chef-owner signs off, then it lands automatically without rebuilding the page.
Pulled live from /case-studies · industry · restaurant
Section 04 / The FAQ
Every answer below is answerable from the kitchen line, the host stand, or the reservation book — not from the agency deck. If a practitioner cannot ground an answer in the room the chef-owner runs, it does not ship.
Editorial · illustratively scoped · awaiting chef-owner review
The Closing Letter
The first call reads the room, the menu, the slow nights, and the reservation book. It ends in a written brief whether Cobblemark is the right shop for the engagement or not. No multi-year lockups, no auto-renew with a buried clause.
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