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Busy restaurant dining room during evening service

Restaurant marketing agency — since 2013

We fill restaurant tables with websites, SEO and social

Three things for restaurants. Get you found. Get you followed. Get you booked.

Trusted by 500+ local restaurants since 2013

198

Customers in one day

4.4x

Return on ad spend

Viral

Singing customers for virality

500+

Restaurants served

13 yrs

Restaurants only

1,000+

Clients helped

Restaurants and brands we have helped

Domino's Pizza
Gigi's Cupcakes
La Agave
Ditco

What we do

Three services. Restaurants only.

Restaurant storefront lit up at night

Restaurant Website Design

A fast restaurant website built to take the booking or the order.

  • Mobile first
  • Menu loads instantly
  • Collects customer names and numbers
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Chef plating a dish at the kitchen pass

Restaurant SEO

Own the search results and the map when someone nearby is hungry.

  • Google Business Profile
  • Local restaurant keywords
  • More reviews, higher rank
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Restaurant owner filming a dish for social media

Restaurant Social Media

Content and community management that turns followers into covers.

  • Custom content
  • Daily posting and replies
  • Offers that fill slow nights
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Who we are

Serving 500 plus restaurants nationwide since 2013

We market restaurants. That is the whole job.

Mission

Marketing that keeps restaurants busy.

Focus

Restaurants only. Nothing else.

Promise

Plain numbers. Fixed price.

Restaurant team working together during service

In-house team. Shot during real service.

Our track record

Since 2013

  1. 2013

    First restaurant client

    A small local pizza operator.

  2. 2015

    First franchise-approved social media agency

    Approved to run social for local restaurant franchisees.

  3. 2018

    Best-selling book and course

    How to Use Social Media to Grow Your Business and Make More Money.

  4. 2019

    500+ clients served

    All handled in-house by our own team.

  5. 2021

    1,000+ clients served

    Independents, franchises and groups.

Restaurant storefront with guests waiting outside at dusk

How we work

Three stages. Nothing hidden.

The same three stages we teach every restaurant owner we work with.

01

Get found online

Website and SEO built so hungry locals find you first.

02

Engage your audience

Social content and replies that keep your restaurant top of mind.

03

Turn your audience into customers

Offers and follow-up that put people in seats.

Case studies

Real restaurants. Real numbers.

Full restaurant dining room during a busy service
Sales

198 customers in one day

198

Customers in a day

Restaurant staff handing meals to community volunteers
Charity

4.4x return on ad spend

4.4x

Return on ad spend

Guests singing and filming inside a lively restaurant
Social

Students sang for their supper

Viral

Social engagement

Reviews

What restaurant owners say

Rated by restaurant operators

They asked about our slow nights before they asked about our budget. Midweek is now our second-best service.
MB

Marco Bellini

OwnerLocal pizzeria

One page of numbers I can actually read. No 40-slide deck.
DO

Dani Okafor

Managing DirectorRestaurant group

Our old agency shot our food in a studio. These guys showed up at 7pm on a Friday and shot the real pass.
PR

Priya Raman

General ManagerNeighbourhood restaurant

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What a 15% lift is worth

Move the sliders to match your restaurant.

Covers per week600
Average check$38
Target lift15%

Current monthly revenue — $98,724

+$14,809 / month

$177,703 over twelve months

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Frequently asked questions

Answers before you ask

Anything else — email serve@smminternational.com.

We look at how your restaurant shows up on Google, maps and social, then tell you the two things to fix first. Free.

Three things: restaurant website design, restaurant SEO and restaurant social media marketing.

Yes. Restaurants, bars and cafés only.

Fixed monthly pricing based on scope. Ad budget stays on your own card. We never take a cut of media spend.

Social and paid usually move inside 30 days. Restaurant SEO takes 60 to 90 days. Websites ship in four to six weeks.

No. 30 days rolling. You keep the website, the accounts and the content.

Our own senior team. No juniors learning on your budget.

Access to your Google Business Profile and social accounts, plus 20 minutes.

Often yes. We audit it and tell you straight whether to fix or replace it.

Yes. Real plates, real room, during real service. You own the footage.

Yes. We build direct ordering and push guests to order with you instead.

Yes. Per-location reporting and shared content libraries.

One simple dashboard plus a short written summary. No decks.

Within four working hours, and we watch accounts through weekend service.

Yes. We were the first franchise-approved social media agency for local restaurants in 2015.

We tell you on the call and point you somewhere better.

Guests dining in a full restaurant

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Let's fill your slow shifts

Twenty minutes. We show you where your restaurant is invisible and what to fix first.

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Restaurant owner filming a plate of food for social media

We shoot in your restaurant. During real service.

Hours

Mon–Fri 9:00–18:00

Email

serve@smminternational.com

Phone

713-367-1333

Based in

Houston, TX — serving restaurants nationwide