Get your restaurant into the top 3 on Google.

Managed restaurant SEO typically runs $1,500–$5,000 per month. Single-location independents sit at the lower end. Multi-location brands and franchises sit higher because each location needs its own GBP management, citations, and landing pages. Most clients see SEO pay for itself by month 4 through reduced delivery-app commissions and direct orders captured from organic search.

Most restaurants see first ranking improvements in 30–60 days, meaningful traffic gains by month 3, and full ROI by month 6. Local SEO and Google Business Profile work shows results fastest — often inside 4 weeks. Content rankings for competitive keywords take longer. Brand new domains in highly competitive markets may take 4–6 months for first-page rankings.

The Map Pack ranks on three weighted signals: Google Business Profile completeness (32%), on-page relevance (19%), and review signals (16%). The single biggest lever is your GBP primary category — get it right and you become eligible for the right searches. Add review velocity, photos, NAP consistency, and local citations, and most restaurants see Map Pack movement inside 30–60 days.

AI systems read structured data, not marketing copy. The primary lever is schema markup — Restaurant, Menu, LocalBusiness, FAQPage, and Review schema all signal to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews exactly what your restaurant offers. 83% of restaurants are currently invisible in ChatGPT because their data isn't structured. We engineer the schema, GBP alignment, and third-party citations (Yelp, OpenTable, DoorDash) that AI uses as ground truth.

Run paid ads if you need bookings tomorrow. Invest in SEO if you want to stop paying for clicks forever. Most operators run both — paid for immediate fill rate, organic for compounding return. A $5 cost-per-click ad costs $5 every time. An organic ranking earns clicks at zero marginal cost once it's there. We typically recommend starting SEO immediately even if you keep ads running.

Yes — more than ever. Third-party apps charge 25–30% commission and own your customer data. Every order through DoorDash is a customer who never visits your site, never joins your loyalty program, never repeats organically. Restaurant SEO captures the searches that bring orders directly with zero commission. The goal isn't to leave the apps — it's to stop being dependent on them.

Multi-location SEO is where SEO pays best. Each location gets its own optimized Google Business Profile, landing page, citation set, and review strategy. The shared brand domain compounds authority across all locations. We manage everything from a single dashboard so your operators don't need to touch any of it. Most of our multi-location clients see top-3 Map Pack rankings across every location within 4–6 months.

Yes. About 60% of our SEO clients come to us with a website built by someone else — WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, custom builds, you name it. We audit what you have, fix what's broken, and add what's missing. If the existing site has fundamental issues we can't fix without a rebuild, we'll tell you upfront. We never lock you into a website rebuild as a precondition.

Menu schema is structured data that tells Google exactly what's on your menu, how items are priced, and what dietary attributes apply. When Google understands your menu in structured form, it can show your dishes in rich results, surface your prices in search, and cite your menu items in AI Overviews. Restaurants with properly implemented menu schema typically see 15–25% higher click-through rates on their search listings.