Industries / Restaurants & Hospitality
Industry — Los Angeles

Restaurant Marketing in Los Angeles.

CRTE is a Los Angeles restaurant marketing agency and studio that fills tables — combining local SEO, social, and in-house food photography under one roof. From menus and delivery apps to Google and Instagram, we make your restaurant impossible to scroll past. Start a project with CRTE.

Overview

How we run restaurants & hospitality.

Los Angeles has more restaurants per capita than almost anywhere in the US, which means the marginal cost of a new customer is one of the highest in the country. The restaurants that win are the ones that treat SEO, reviews, and paid social as an integrated program — not three separate vendors.

Our hospitality program starts with the reservation funnel: OpenTable, Resy, Toast, or Tock — whichever platform you're on — and works backward through Google Business Profile, review velocity, menu photography, and social. Every dollar is tied to reservations or covers, not clicks.

For hotels and multi-location groups, we layer in OTA optimization and direct-booking programs designed to reduce the Expedia / Booking.com share of nights over time.

Category challenges
  • Reservation drop-off
  • Review velocity
  • Third-party dependence
  • Seasonality
How CRTE fixes it
  • +Local SEO
  • +Review Generation
  • +Menu photography
  • +Meta & Google Ads
The playbook

What we ship for restaurants & hospitality.

GBP + reservation funnel

GBP optimization tied directly to OpenTable / Resy / Tock booking links with attribution back to reservations.

Review velocity system

Post-visit review prompts across Google, Yelp, and Tripadvisor with staff-training playbook for response.

Menu + interior photography

Shot in-studio or on-site through CRTE Studio — DoorDash, Yelp, Google, and site-ready in one shoot.

Meta + Google paid layer

Geo-fenced ads to LA-metro diners with real creative rotation.

Local

For brands across Greater LA.

We work with restaurants & hospitality clients across Los Angeles County, Ventura County, and the greater LA metro — plus remote-first engagements across the US.

  • +Reservation-first funnels wired to OpenTable / Resy / Toast
  • +Menu and interior photography produced through CRTE Studio
  • +Multi-location review programs across LA hospitality groups
How we work

A four-phase cadence, every engagement.

01
Discover

Kickoff, audit, and diagnostics. We map the account, the market, and the goal before we touch anything.

02
Plan

A 90-day roadmap with the channels, creative, budget, and KPIs the team will actually be measured against.

03
Build

Senior operators do the work — no juniors on your account. Weekly cadence, transparent Slack, real deliverables.

04
Optimize

Monthly review + quarterly recalibration. We double down on what works and cut what doesn't, on purpose.

Restaurants & Hospitality FAQ.

For strategy-led retainers, yes — we won't run two direct competitors in the same LA-metro market at the same time.

Related industries

Adjacent categories we run.

Ready when you are

Bring us your restaurants & hospitality program. We'll scope it in a week.