Restaurant Marketing in Metro Detroit
Restaurant Marketing That Fills Tables
and Grows Orders You Keep
MPH Marketing helps restaurants, bars, cafes, bakeries and caterers across Metro Detroit show up when hungry people search, look irresistible on social and turn first-time visitors into regulars. We handle local SEO, Google Business Profile, social media, ads, video and a website with ordering and reservations that belong to you, not a third-party app.
The Short Answer
What Is Restaurant Marketing?
Restaurant marketing is everything that gets a hungry person to pick your place over the one down the street. Today that decision usually happens on a phone: a "best brunch near me" search, a Google Maps listing with photos and reviews, an Instagram reel a friend shared, or an AI assistant asked for "a good date night spot in Royal Oak."
The restaurants that stay busy are the ones that are easy to find, easy to judge and easy to order from. That means a complete and active Google Business Profile, a steady flow of recent reviews, menu and photo content that search engines can read, social posts that look like the food actually tastes, and a website that takes reservations or orders without sending a cut to a delivery app.
MPH Marketing is based in Berkley and works with restaurants across Oakland, Wayne, Macomb and Washtenaw counties. We know the neighborhoods, the dining scenes in Ferndale, Royal Oak, Birmingham, Detroit and Ann Arbor, and what it takes to stand out in them.
Who we work with
- Independent restaurants and small groups
- Bars, breweries and taprooms
- Cafes, coffee shops and bakeries
- Pizzerias and fast casual
- Food trucks and ghost kitchens
- Caterers and event venues
- Fine dining and chef-driven concepts
- Multi-location franchises
What We Do
Restaurant Marketing Services
Pick what you need or let us run the whole thing. Every service is built to be measured in covers, orders and bookings, not vanity metrics.
Local SEO and Google Maps
Rank in the map pack for "near me" and neighborhood searches with optimized listings, menu schema, location pages and citations that match everywhere.
Google Business Profile Management
Weekly posts, photo updates, menu links, Q&A, review responses and hours that are always right. Your profile is your most-viewed page, so we treat it that way.
Social Media Management
Instagram, Facebook and TikTok content that shows the food, the room and the people, planned around specials, events and seasons. See our social media marketing services.
Meta and Google Ads
Geo-targeted campaigns for grand openings, slow nights, catering and holiday orders. Google Ads captures people searching now; Instagram Ads make them hungry first.
Food and Restaurant Video
Short vertical video for reels and ads plus longer brand pieces for your site. Nothing sells a dish like watching it come out of the kitchen.
Restaurant Website Design
Fast mobile sites with readable menus, online ordering and reservation links, event pages and catering forms. Built on WordPress so your team can update specials in minutes.
Why It Is Different
What Makes Restaurant Marketing Different
Restaurants move fast and margins are thin. We plan around that.
Google Maps is the menu board
Most diners never reach your website. They choose from the map pack, so photos, reviews, hours and menu details on your Google Business Profile do the selling.
Reviews compound
A consistent review process beats one viral post. We build asking for reviews into the flow and respond to every one, good or bad.
Third-party apps are expensive
Delivery and reservation platforms take a cut and own the customer. We push ordering and bookings to channels you control and keep the customer list yours.
Content has to look like the food
Stock photos and generic captions do not work for restaurants. We shoot and write for your room, your plates and your regulars.
Timing is everything
Thursday lunch, Friday date night, Sunday brunch, game day, graduation season. Campaigns are scheduled around when people decide, not just when they eat.
How We Work
Our Restaurant Marketing Process
Simple, visible and measured in bookings and orders.
Audit
We review your Google Business Profile, reviews, website, social accounts and local rankings against nearby competitors and show you exactly where you are losing diners.
Fix the foundation
Listings cleanup, menu and location schema, tracking for calls, directions, orders and reservations, and a website that loads fast on a phone.
Fill the calendar
A monthly content and promotion plan tied to your specials, events and slow periods, across Google, social and email.
Turn on demand
Local SEO and targeted ads that put you in front of people deciding where to eat in your area right now.
Report and adjust
Monthly numbers that lead with what changed: map views, direction requests, calls, orders and bookings, with budget shifted to what is working.
FAQ
Restaurant Marketing FAQs
Ready for a busier dining room?
Tell us about your restaurant and we will show you how you compare in local search and what it would take to bring in more diners. Start with Local SEO, social media management or video.
