Empty seats at the wrong time
Another blanket discount may bring traffic without enough margin. Build a reason to visit a specific shift, for the right guests, with an offer the kitchen can deliver profitably.
FOR RESTAURANT OWNERS · INDEPENDENTS & GROWING GROUPS
A packed Friday.
A quiet Tuesday.
Let’s work on Tuesday.
You know how to give people a reason to come back. We help you stay in front of them, answer before they move on, and turn more first visits into lasting guest relationships.
Restaurant marketing software. A team when you need help. A growth partner when you’re ready. All working toward a business that doesn’t depend on you doing every little thing.
Start my 14-day trialThen $97/month · free customized setupTalk restaurant growthBook a free strategy session
Starter also available at $997/year after the trial. Metered calls, messages and AI usage are separate.
MORE THAN ANOTHER APPOne team.
One platform.
More room to run your restaurant.
One platform.
More room to run your restaurant.
YOU DON’T NEED MORE ON YOUR PLATE
The food is good.
The experience is good.
So why does growth feel so unpredictable?
Because the work that brings the next guest in happens while you’re serving the people already there.
A phone rings during the rush. A catering inquiry sits in Instagram. Someone asks about a private party, gets distracted, and never hears from you again. Yesterday’s happy guests leave with a great memory—and no invitation to return.
Meanwhile, you’re buying ingredients, covering shifts, watching costs and trying to post something before dinner. Marketing becomes whatever you can squeeze in.
Those small gaps can become expensive habits. Local Digital Buzz connects the conversation before the visit, the relationship after it, and the work needed to keep your restaurant visible. You choose how much of that work you want to handle yourself.
Good guests you can’t reach again
Followers and marketplace orders don’t automatically become a permission-based guest list. Give people a useful reason to stay connected directly with your restaurant.
A marketing job nobody owns
Photos, reviews, messages, emails and campaigns pile up between service. Put the basics in one place—and bring in a coordinated team when your own time runs out.
FROM “WHERE SHOULD WE EAT?” TO “LET’S GO BACK”
Build a guest journey.
Not just another promotion.
Here’s an example of what a connected restaurant marketing system can support. We choose the steps that fit your package, your operation and your guests.
- 01 · GET DISCOVERED
Give them a reason to look.
Relevant social content, local visibility, a clear website and—when part of the plan—ads that promote a specific experience.
- 02 · START THE CONVERSATION
Answer while interest is warm.
Route calls, chats and connected social messages into a useful response. Capture party details or point people to your approved booking or ordering link.
- 03 · FOLLOW THROUGH
Make the next step clear.
With Growth or Momentum, track catering and event inquiries, assign the next action and follow up through an agreed process.
- 04 · EARN THE RETURN
Give a good guest a next visit.
Invite honest reviews and keep opted-in guests connected with relevant news, occasions and offers. Measure what happens next.
Your team delivers the hospitality. We help connect the marketing around it.
START WITH THE EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS
Five tools your restaurant
can actually put to work.
Starter includes Inbox, Leads, Social Planner, AI Agents and Reviews. Your team gets a simpler daily workspace; our team handles the technical setup.
CENTRALIZED INBOX
Stop checking five places for one conversation.
Bring supported email, SMS, webchat and connected Facebook or Instagram messages into one working view. Your host and manager can see the conversation and coordinate who responds.
In your restaurant: keep a birthday-party inquiry from disappearing between a social message and a busy shift change.
Explore the shared inboxAI PHONE & CHAT AGENTS
Be helpful when your hands are full.
Configure AI around your approved hours, location, menu links and common questions. It can collect inquiry details and hand off to your team instead of leaving every caller waiting.
In your restaurant: a guest asks about a large group after closing. Capture their name, contact details and request for the manager to review.
See how AI agents helpSOCIAL PLANNER
Show up before people decide where to eat.
Prepare and schedule posts for connected channels. Give your menu, team, events and atmosphere a consistent presence without making every post a last-minute task.
In your restaurant: schedule this week’s lunch special, a behind-the-scenes kitchen moment and the weekend’s live-music reminder in one sitting.
Explore social publishingLEADS & CONTACTS
Keep the relationship after the conversation.
Maintain contact details, notes and guest interests in your Leads section. Know who asked about catering, who requested private dining and which people have agreed to receive marketing.
In your restaurant: distinguish a nearby office organizer from a visiting family, so the next conversation is relevant to them.
See the wider CRM capabilitiesAdvanced sales pipelines are available with Growth and Momentum.
REPUTATION & REVIEWS
Let good hospitality keep speaking for you.
Keep track of supported reviews, respond thoughtfully and make it easier to request honest feedback through the process we configure with you.
In your restaurant: give a manager a clear review-response routine, then turn recurring feedback into a conversation with the team.
Explore reputation toolsKeep the tools that run service.
This marketing system works alongside your restaurant’s POS, ordering and table-management tools. We assess available connections before promising an integration. AI uses approved information; your staff confirms reservation availability, menu changes, allergies and other sensitive guest requests.
YOUR RESTAURANT. YOUR NEXT OPPORTUNITY.
Different goals need
different plays.
We don’t start by telling you to post more. We start by asking where a better guest relationship could make the biggest difference.
Make a quiet shift worth choosing.
A weekday tasting, a lunch bundle or a family occasion can give people a reason to visit now. Growth can help build the campaign, the creative and the follow-up. Momentum adds leadership and an agreed advertising allocation.
The question to answer: did the promotion create profitable visits in the hours you wanted to fill?
Turn catering inquiries into a process.
Capture the date, group size and occasion. With Growth or Momentum, organize opportunities from inquiry to quote, follow-up and confirmed event. Your staff approves availability, menus and terms.
The question to answer: how many qualified inquiries become booked events—and where do the others stall?
Bring yesterday’s guests back.
Invite guests to opt into updates that are worth receiving. Use broader email and SMS tools in Growth or Momentum for seasonal menus, relevant occasions and well-timed return invitations.
The question to answer: which invitations lead to repeat visits, with a comfortable message frequency?
Reach the right local partners.
Hotels, nearby offices and event planners may offer useful relationships. Growth and Momentum include access to LinkedIn lead-generation and team tools; outreach work is planned around the people and occasions you can serve.
The question to answer: which relationships create suitable catering, group or recurring business?
THE BUZZPIXEL CONNECTION
Your website visit
shouldn’t be the end
of the conversation.
Someone views your private-dining page. Another visitor explores catering. A third checks your event menu. Those are different signals—not one generic audience.
Our BuzzPixel process helps connect eligible website activity and audience data with campaign planning, measurement and retargeting. In Momentum, it sits inside the agreed growth strategy alongside your software, our team and Joshua’s leadership.
That can support different messages for different interests: private dining for event prospects, a catering conversation for local organizers, or a relevant reminder for people considering a visit.
We build around useful, permitted data. Available matching, integrations and advertising-platform rules determine what is possible. A website visit does not identify every guest or give permission to text them.
Discuss a restaurant audience strategyTHE NUMBER THAT MATTERS
A busier dining room
should make business
sense, too.
Likes don’t pay the food bill. Revenue is useful, but it isn’t the same as profit. The right marketing plan considers guest spend, food and service costs, available capacity, repeat business and the cost of acquiring a guest.
A simple illustration—not a forecast.
If an additional guest visit contributes $15 after the relevant variable costs, a $600 total campaign investment needs 40 genuinely additional visits to cover that investment.
Count every campaign cost and avoid crediting visits that would have happened anyway. Your real numbers may be very different.
That is the direction we mean by a net-neutral marketing budget: attributable contribution covering the marketing investment. From there, we work on improving the margin—not simply buying more attention.
In a Momentum strategy session, Joshua helps define the economics, responsibilities and measurement that would make an engagement worth considering.
CHOOSE THE HELP YOU ACTUALLY NEED
The tools. The team.
Or someone to lead the plan.
You don’t need the largest package to take a useful first step. Choose the level that fits your current resources—and add support as your restaurant grows.
01 · STARTER
Keep the daily
guest conversation moving.
$97/month
Or $997/year.
Both begin with a 14-day software trial.
FOR THE OWNER WHO WANTS A BETTER DAILY SYSTEM
You or a team member handles the day-to-day marketing. We help get the foundation configured so you can respond, organize contacts, schedule social posts and manage reviews.
- Centralized Inbox and the Leads contact section
- AI phone/chat agent capabilities and human handoffs
- Social Planner and reputation/review tools
- Free customized setup, valued by LDB at $5,000
- 30-day money-back guarantee on your first membership payment
A restaurant use case: one manager keeps up with inquiries, prepares the week’s posts and reviews guest feedback without juggling disconnected systems.
Software membership; ongoing creative production and campaign management are not included. Calling, messaging, AI and third-party usage are billed separately. Your selected membership renews after the trial unless canceled. Setup requires your information, access and approvals.
02 · GROWTH
Get the work
off your ever-growing list.
$1,497/quarter
Or $5,797/year.
Save $191 versus four quarterly payments.
FOR THE OWNER WHO KNOWS WHAT NEEDS DOING—AND NEEDS HELP
Get broader platform access, a project manager to coordinate your builds and software, and the Hive’s fractional marketing team. Bring the goal to one person instead of recruiting a new freelancer for every task.
- Starter essentials plus the broader software applications, including pipelines, websites/funnels, calendars, email/SMS marketing and reporting
- LinkedIn lead-generation and team/project tools
- A full-time project manager assigned to coordinate your account—not an exclusive full-time employee
- Approved production outside membership scope at $57 per labor hour
- 30-day money-back guarantee on your first membership payment
Ask the team: “Build a catering inquiry page.” “Prepare a holiday-party campaign.” “Edit this kitchen video into social clips.” “Help us organize follow-up.” We agree the scope, hours and approvals before extra work begins.
Growth has no free trial. Membership does not include unlimited production, advertising spend, metered usage or outside costs. Customer access excludes the Automation builder; our team manages the agreed technical work.
Meet your fractional marketing team03 · MOMENTUM
Put a growth partner
in charge of the plan.
$10,000/month
Initial 90 days: three monthly payments.
Or $28,500 upfront for that quarter—save $1,500.
FOR AN OPERATOR READY TO FUND AND DELIVER A COORDINATED GROWTH PLAN
Joshua steps in as your fractional CMO: shaping the strategy, allocating the agreed budget, coordinating the team and using results to guide the next decision. Your restaurant team owns the food, service and guest experience.
- Software, AI, team execution and project management
- Fractional CMO leadership and campaign direction
- Advertising spend inside your agreed budget
- BuzzPixel, eligible audience data, campaign testing and measurement
- Content and authority production—such as chef interviews, video, podcasts or a book project—when included in the agreed priorities and schedule
One agreed budget. No separate fees on top for the marketing team, leadership, software or the agreed advertising allocation. The plan sets the deliverables and media allocation; it does not promise every possible service at once.
Our exclusive 90-day ROI promise
If the agreed return isn’t achieved, we continue working under the written continuation terms. Your agreement defines the ROI calculation, start date, responsibilities and what the continuation covers. This is a continued-work commitment, not a money-back guarantee.
Momentum requires a strategy session, fit review and acceptance before payment. Customer access excludes the Automation builder. Larger or multi-location plans may require a custom agreed budget.
Starter and Growth refunds: request within 30 days of the first membership payment; Starter’s first payment follows its trial. Read the membership and guarantee terms. Compare all package details.
LEADERSHIP THAT CONNECTS THE DOTS
You run the restaurant.
Let’s give its marketing
a clear owner.
Joshua Fleming has worked in sales and marketing since the mid-1990s. Local Digital Buzz brings that experience together with software and the Hive’s specialists in content, advertising, design, websites and marketing operations.
The job is to connect an offer people care about with a useful next step—and keep improving the path after the first click. For a restaurant, that might mean a repeat-visit opportunity, a clearer catering offer or a stronger private-event sales process.
We’re based in Panama City, Florida, and work with businesses across the United States. The first conversation is about your operation, not a prewritten promise that every restaurant needs the same campaign.
Meet Joshua and Local Digital BuzzSTART SMALL. MAKE IT USEFUL.
Your first move
doesn’t need to be a big rebuild.
Choose the bottleneck.
Missed inquiries? Inconsistent social? Reviews? Catering follow-up? Start with one outcome and the package that gives you the right support.
Connect and approve.
Share your hours, menu links, FAQs, brand assets and authorized account access. We configure the agreed setup, review AI responses and confirm human handoffs with you.
Use it during real service.
Give your team a clear routine. Review what is working, what needs attention and whether your next step is more software use, production help or a larger strategy.
BEFORE YOU SAY YES
Real questions.
Clear answers.
Want to talk through your restaurant’s situation? Bring it to a free strategy session.
Will this replace our POS, ordering or reservation system?
Not as part of this offer. Local Digital Buzz is the marketing and guest-relationship layer around your operation. Keep your core service tools while we assess integrations, supported data access and any additional setup. Do not assume a specific POS, delivery marketplace or reservation platform is already connected.
Can the AI take restaurant bookings or answer menu questions?
It can answer approved questions, collect details and direct guests to your approved booking or ordering path. Live booking depends on the connected system and the configuration we confirm. Staff should confirm availability, allergies and changing menu information; AI should hand off when it does not have an approved answer.
Does Starter include someone writing our posts and running ads?
No. Starter includes the five core software areas and free customized setup. Your team operates the day-to-day tools. Growth provides project management and access to specialists with approved extra work at $57/hour. Momentum includes agreed execution and advertising inside the engagement budget.
What does “free setup” actually mean?
We configure your business snapshot, AI agent, reputation process, social connections and centralized inbox using the information and access you provide. LDB values that setup at $5,000; it is not a separate charge. A full restaurant website rebuild, photo shoot or ongoing campaign is separately scoped.
Can we use our existing guest list?
We can review how to import and organize an appropriate list. Marketing use depends on the permission you have to contact those people. We help define relevant segments and opt-out handling; an old receipt, marketplace order or website visit is not treated as blanket permission for promotional texts.
Can you help with catering, private dining or multiple locations?
Yes. Growth or Momentum can support scoped inquiry pages, pipelines, campaigns and reporting. We first clarify the locations, staff responsibilities, menus, capacity and systems involved. The page’s standard prices do not promise an unlimited multi-location rollout.
Do you create food videos, email campaigns and social content?
The Hive can scope those projects through Growth, with approved additional work at $57 per labor hour. Momentum includes scheduled production within the agreed budget. You provide usable assets or we agree on filming, photography, travel and production needs before making commitments.
Do restaurant owners have to build automations?
No. Customer access is designed without the Automation builder across all three packages. Your team works in the tools included with your plan; our team manages the technical configuration and any agreed automation work.
Which plan includes the trial and money-back guarantee?
Starter includes a 14-day software trial with either $97 monthly or $997 annual billing. Starter and Growth include a 30-day money-back guarantee on the first membership payment. Metered usage and third-party costs are separate. Momentum has its own written ROI continued-work commitment.
Is Momentum right for a small independent restaurant?
Only if the economics, operational capacity, budget and working relationship make sense. A strategy session comes first. Starter or Growth may be the better next step, particularly when you need to establish the basics before funding a $10,000/month engagement.
Can we start with Starter and move up later?
Yes. Start with the everyday tools, then request Growth when you need more applications and coordinated team support. Momentum requires qualification and an agreed strategy. We confirm timing, billing and any scope changes before switching packages; downgrade terms follow your agreement.
Do you guarantee more covers, five-star reviews or a specific revenue increase?
No specific restaurant result is promised on this page. We define useful goals, track the available evidence and improve the work. Reviews should reflect honest guest experiences. Only accepted Momentum engagements include the written ROI commitment, with the agreed measurement and continuation terms.
CREATE MORE BUZZ AROUND YOUR RESTAURANT
You’ve built a place
worth coming back to.
Let’s help people remember.
Start with the everyday tools your team needs. Or bring Joshua your biggest growth problem and work out the right next move together.
Start my 14-day trialThen $97/month · free setupBook my free strategy sessionBring your restaurant. Bring your questions.
Prefer to see the gaps first? Run a free business scan and bring your report to the conversation.