Restaurant & Bar AI Search

Make your restaurant easier for AI search to find, understand, and shortlist.

A diner asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, or Google where to eat, what to order, or which bar fits the night. We improve the pages, menu, reviews, stories, and outside proof that give your restaurant a stronger chance of earning a place in that answer, then keep the work moving with you in WhatsApp.

From$1,650 / month · no long lock-in

↺ Half the fee tied to the result

A new 30-day plan every month · We start shipping from day 1

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Schmitdy and a restaurant owner connecting search discovery with arriving diners

The shift

Diners ask one question. AI gives them a short list.

There may be no map scroll, ten blue links, or second chance. The answer is shaped by your own website and menu, but also by reviews, local guides, editorial coverage, videos, and real conversations. We work across the whole picture, measure what changes, and keep shipping the next best move.

Included, at no extra charge

The build work other agencies invoice for is inside the fee.

Most restaurant retainers write content around a website that machines cannot read. The menu is a PDF, there is nowhere to publish, and the build that would fix it comes back as a separate quote. We do that work as part of the monthly fee, for every venue.

The big one

Your menus, out of PDF and into pages.

A PDF hides the only text on your website that names what you actually cook. We rebuild every menu as a real page and keep it current. Your designer still gets a print file, generated from the same source, so nothing is maintained twice.

Every venue and every menu, including drinks, wine, seasonal, set and private dining
Dish names, descriptions, prices, sections, dietary and allergen detail as readable text
Restaurant and Menu structured data, with its own heading and web address for each venue and menu
Built as pages on your own domain, not an image, an embedded frame or a download
Updated whenever the kitchen changes something

Want a quick first pass before a rebuild? Use the free restaurant menu page checker to review readable dishes, prices, menu links and location ownership.

Schmitdy and a restaurant manager improving a menu page and location information

A blog, built from nothing

The section, the templates, categories and author pages
A publishing route your team can actually use
Measurement, so you can see which stories earn answers
Then we write and publish into it every month

The technical repair

Pages that serve their content to a crawler, not only to a browser
Headings that describe the venue instead of repeating the brand
Structured data, a clean sitemap and an llms.txt
A robots.txt that does not quietly block the engines you want to be read by

A page for every venue

Groups lose answers when several sites blur into one identity
Each venue gets its own page, its own record and its own menus
Shared menus stay shared, venue menus stay separate
So an engine can tell your sites apart and name the right one

No separate build invoice, no project fee, no offer that expires.It is scope. From $1,650 a month, with the daily AI search work running alongside it.

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The daily loop

We check the answers every day. What moved decides what we do next.

We track the restaurant questions that can turn into covers, private dining inquiries, event bookings, and group demand. When an answer, source, or competitor moves, we can act while it still matters.

Schmitdy and an operator comparing fresh restaurant search evidence

What we look for

New diner questionsThe way people now ask for a date-night restaurant, private room, neighborhood bar, tasting menu, or group dinner.
Missing placesThe guide, review site, forum, video, or local list AI trusts where competitors appear and you do not.
Changes in the shortlistYou moved up, dropped out, or are being described inaccurately.
Booking frictionThe answer mentions you, but the menu, venue page, or booking path loses the diner.

For a group, check the public booking paths across your locations for broken links, branch mix-ups and missing steps.

How that becomes work

CheckRead the important answers and the places behind them.
ChooseRank the opportunities by likely restaurant revenue, not vanity traffic.
ShipImprove the menu or page, publish the missing story, engage the right community, or pitch the right editor.
Read backIf it moves, build on it. If it does not, change the play.

You see the plan, the work, and the result in WhatsApp. No status deck required.

Want to see your first 30 days?Marco maps the diner questions, competitors, and fastest wins, free.

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The four pillars

The whole operation rests on four things.

Diner questions

The real questions people ask before choosing where to eat or drink, ranked by likely value.

The places AI trusts

The restaurant pages, reviews, guides, videos, forums, and local voices shaping each answer.

Work that goes live

Better menus, useful pages, strong stories, honest community answers, and editorial pitches that make it out the door.

With you in WhatsApp

See what is moving, approve what matters, and ask for changes in the channel you already use.

What we actually ship

Five ways we move your position. Here's what lands each month.

The daily read sets the priority. Experienced people check every claim, page, design, and pitch before it goes live.

Optimise what's already there

We improve the pages closest to a booking, including the details diners need to make a decision.

Turn static PDF menus into fast, engaging menus people can search, scan, and share
Improve location, private dining, events, group booking, and bar pages
Help bars move into food with proper restaurant and menu pages
Repair confusing venue facts, booking routes, and mobile journeys

Schmitdy and an editor improving an existing restaurant location page

Create the pages the category is already asking for

If the useful page is missing, we build it. If you do not have a blog, we build that too, at no extra charge.

Neighbourhood, occasion, menu, dietary, event, and private dining pages
Useful restaurant stories built from real diner questions
A complete blog setup where there is none, including design, publishing, and measurement
Every published language kept in step with the others

Schmitdy and a chef reviewing a useful restaurant article draft

Authentically engage the communities engines read

We help your restaurant contribute where people genuinely ask for recommendations. No fake diners, planted praise, or spam.

Useful answers in Reddit threads, Tripadvisor forums, local food groups, and specialist communities
Real expertise from your chefs, owners, bartenders, and front-of-house team
Careful, honest participation only where your restaurant truly fits the question

Schmitdy and a local guide sharing useful dining information with residents

Get published in editorials

We build a story worth an editor's time, research the right person, and pitch it properly. Targets depend on the story, but can include Time Out, SquareMeal and Condé Nast Traveller in the UK, The Infatuation and Eater in New York, and tipBerlin, Falstaff or DER FEINSCHMECKER in Germany.

Publication ideas considered for originality, timing, fit, and proof before outreach
Tailored pitches to editors and creators, never competitors
At least three strong, researched follow-ups across two weeks when the pitch stays relevant
No promise of coverage and no spray-and-pray media lists

Schmitdy and a food editor reviewing restaurant photos and notes for a factual story

Turn diner questions into YouTube proof

A good video can show the room, food, people, and experience more clearly than a paragraph. We turn useful diner questions into honest, searchable proof.

Ideas and scripts based on what diners actually want to know
Titles, thumbnails, descriptions, chapters, and transcripts built for discovery
Restaurant walk-throughs, menu explainers, occasion guides, and behind-the-scenes stories
Every claim and final cut checked before publication

Schmitdy filming a chef explaining a useful kitchen detail

Works with you in

WhatsApp. The work lands where restaurant teams already talk.

See what we found, what is going live, and what changed. Reply with a voice note, photo, menu, question, or approval. We keep the process moving without adding another meeting.

The Schmitdy dolphin delivering restaurant updates through WhatsApp

What's included

Everything, in three buckets.

Daily checks and priorities

The restaurant questions most likely to lead to a booking or enquiry
Daily checks across the five main AI search experiences
A new 30-day plan every month
Clear measurement of visibility, website visits, and leads

Work on your restaurant's presence

Menu, location, event, private dining, bar, and booking-page improvements
New pages, a blog if needed, and restaurant stories in every published language
Editorial outreach and honest community participation
YouTube ideas and publishing support where video can win

Team and communication

A senior operator accountable for the plan and the work
WhatsApp updates, approvals, questions, and results
Human checks across writing, design, development, and outreach
Half the fee tied to the result

Who it's for

Built for restaurants and bars that want the next booking, not another report.

This is for you if

You run one venue, a growing group, a hotel restaurant, or a bar moving further into food
Your menu or website is hard to update, hard to find, or weak on mobile
You want more private dining, events, group bookings, or destination diners
You can share real restaurant knowledge and approve good work quickly in WhatsApp

This is not for you if

You want fake reviews, planted forum posts, or guaranteed editorial coverage
You want a one-off report with nobody responsible for doing the work
You expect every AI answer to change overnight

Not sure where to start? Ask Marco.Bring the messy website, PDF menu, or half-formed idea. He will map the smallest useful first month.

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FAQ

What restaurant teams ask before we start.

How does the result-based fee work?+

Half to start. Half when either agreed monthly goal is met. Before each service month we agree two measurable goals in writing. You pay half the fee to start, and the second half only when either goal is met that month.

Is this different from restaurant SEO?+

It works alongside your SEO. We improve the pages, menus, reviews, local details, editorial mentions and useful answers that help both people and search systems understand why they should choose you.

Do you work with one venue or restaurant groups?+

Both. One venue gets a focused plan around its menu, area and ideal diners. Groups get the same depth by location, with shared brand work where it saves time.

Why does it start at $1,650 a month, and how does it scale?+

$1,650 a month covers the daily checks, a fresh 30-day plan, website and content work, outreach and community work, with a senior operator accountable for what ships. The fee grows only when the number of locations or the amount of work grows.

What happens in the first 30 days?+

We check the questions diners ask, the places AI answers rely on, your website and menu journey, and the path to a booking. Then we ship the highest-value fixes from day one and show you what changed in WhatsApp.