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Restaurant Marketing

That Works!

Done-for-you firepower for independent restaurant owners—fill tables fast, no discounts needed.

America's Best Restaurants

Growing Your Restaurant Starts Here...

Finally...

Restaurant Marketing

That Works!

Agency-powered, done-for-you firepower for independent restaurant owners—fill tables fast, no cash wasted, no discounts needed.

Picture This: Your social media's on fire, tables are packed, lunch is slammed, catering is rolling, and regulars are spending more—no discounts needed.

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Two Powerful Ways to

slam your restaurant

in 2025

 🍽️ Catering Orders   👨‍👩‍👦 New customers   ⏰ Lunch Traffic   📣 Social Buzz   🤑 Higher Tickets   ⭐ 5-star reviews   🍽️ Catering Orders   👨‍👩‍👦 New customers   ⏰ Lunch Traffic   📣 Social Buzz   🤑 Higher Tickets   ⭐ 5-star reviews 
 🍽️ Catering Orders   👨‍👩‍👦 New customers   ⏰ Lunch Traffic   📣 Social Buzz   🤑 Higher Tickets   ⭐ 5-star reviews   🍽️ Catering Orders   👨‍👩‍👦 New customers   ⏰ Lunch Traffic   📣 Social Buzz   🤑 Higher Tickets   ⭐ 5-star reviews 
 🍽️ Catering Orders   👨‍👩‍👦 New customers   ⏰ Lunch Traffic   📣 Social Buzz   🤑 Higher Tickets   ⭐ 5-star reviews   🍽️ Catering Orders   👨‍👩‍👦 New Customers   ⏰ Lunch Traffic   📣 Social Buzz   🤑 Higher Tickets   ⭐ 5-Star Reviews 
🍽️ Catering Orders 👥 Attracting new customerss ⏰ Lunch Traffic 📣 Crushing it on social 🍽️ Driving Higher Tickets ⭐ Piling up 5-star reviews 🍽️ Catering Orders 👥 New Customers ⏰ Lunch Traffic 📣 Social Buzz 🍽️ Higher Tickets ⭐ 5-Star Reviews
 🍽️ Catering Orders   👨‍👩‍👦 New customers   ⏰ Lunch Traffic   📣 Social Buzz   🤑 Higher Tickets   ⭐ 5-star reviews   🍽️ Catering Orders   👨‍👩‍👦 New Customers   ⏰ Lunch Traffic   📣 Social Buzz   🤑 Higher Tickets   ⭐ 5-Star Reviews 
 🍽️ Catering Orders   👨‍👩‍👦 New customers   ⏰ Lunch Traffic   📣 Social Buzz   🤑 Higher Tickets   ⭐ 5-star reviews   🍽️ Catering Orders   👨‍👩‍👦 New Customers   ⏰ Lunch Traffic   📣 Social Buzz   🤑 Higher Tickets   ⭐ 5-Star Reviews 
  Catering Orders    New customers    Lunch Traffic    Social Buzz    Higher Tickets    5-star reviews    Catering Orders    New Customers    Lunch Traffic    Social Buzz    Higher Tickets    5-Star Reviews 
  Catering Orders    New customers    Lunch Traffic    Social Buzz    Higher Tickets    5-star reviews    Catering Orders    New Customers    Lunch Traffic    Social Buzz    Higher Tickets    5-Star Reviews 
🍽️ Catering Orders 👥 Attracting new customerss ⏰ Lunch Traffic 📣 Crushing it on social 🍽️ Driving Higher Tickets ⭐ Piling up 5-star reviews 🍽️ Catering Orders 👥 New Customers ⏰ Lunch Traffic 📣 Social Buzz 🍽️ Higher Tickets ⭐ 5-Star Reviews

Over $1-billion in sales for restaurants using our Attract—Build—Retain system.

DRYVER

Get Slammed. Stay Slammed.

Attract customers who spend more and stay longer with with our triple-action Attract—Build—Retain marketing framework. Build lunch, catering, online orders, profit-per-customer—and more.

Over $1-billion in sales for restaurants using our Attract—Build—Retain system.

Get Famous.

Turn your restaurant into a local sensation. Our film crew features your restaurant in a pro video that highlights the magic and tells your story. Expect huge crowds, new customers, and long-term buzz.

You’re next—but slots vanish quick.

Stay Slammed

Attract customers who spend more and stay longer with with our triple-action Attract—Build—Retain marketing framework. Build lunch, catering, online orders, profit-per-customer—and more.

All-in-one—done-for-you. Mind-blowing results.

The Roadshow

Get Famous.

The Roadshow turns local restaurants into local sensations. Our film crew arrives—and you're the star!

Fact: The Roadshow has featured over 3,000 restaurants and generated over 3 billion views.

Dryver

Stay Packed.

Dryver is the Attract—Build—Retain restaurant growth system that builds your sales all three ways.

More customers. Bigger checks. No headaches.

Fact: DRYVER was developed by a restaurant owner who scaled his own sales by 1,067% in just three years.

Get Famous. Stay Packed.

Get Famous. Stay Packed.

The Roadshow

Get Famous.

The Roadshow turns local restaurants into local sensations. Our film crew arrives—and you're the star!

What You Get >>>

🎬 Our film crew arrives, puts you in the spotlight—captures your story, highlights your magic, and ignites massive buzz.

⚡ A PACKED Event: Instant energy, new customers, and nonstop action

⚡ Massive Attention: Be seen, found, discovered, trusted, and chosen

⚡ 100+ pieces of social media content: Keeps the buzz going long after filming

⚡ Exposure that lasts: One feature, unlimited reach—new customers on repeat

Expect huge crowds, new customers, and long-term buzz.

Fact: The Roadshow has featured over 3,000 restaurants and generated over 3 billion views.

Dryver

Stay Packed.

Dryver is the Attract—Build—Retain restaurant growth system that builds your sales all three ways—everyday.

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🔥 Full-stack solution combines loyalty, email, texting, social media... and more—into a complete done-for-you platform.

⚡ Attract—Build—Retain: The genius strategy you’ve never seen

⚡ SMART Offers: Condition customers to spend more—no discounts needed

⚡ Profit Stacks: High-profit catering, lunch, online ordering stacked—on autopilot

⚡ Engage: Makes you pop on social

More customers. Bigger checks.

No headaches.

Fact: DRYVER was developed by a restaurant owner who scaled his own sales by 1,067% in just three years.

10X

Grow Rich.

Join high-caliber restaurant owners for events networking, insights, and training. You'll stay sharp, and stay ahead.

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Dryver

⚡ SMART Offers: Condition customers to spend more

⚡ Profit Stacks: High-profit revenue streams for catering, lunch, online ordering and more—on autopilot

⚡ Engage: Makes you pop on social

Get Famous. Stay Packed.

Get Famous. Stay Packed.

🚀 The Roadshow

Get Famous. Stay Packed.

🔥 Dryver

Get Slammed. Stay Slammed.

Money Follows Attention—Are You Getting Enough?

Turn your restaurant into a local sensation. Our film crew puts you in the spotlight—capturing your story, showcasing your magic, and igniting massive buzz. 🎬🔥

Attention: Get seen, found, discovered, trusted, and chosen.

Hype: Expect huge crowds, new customers, and long-term buzz.

You’re next—but slots vanish quick.

Fact: The Roadshow has featured over 3,000 restaurants and generated over 3 billion views.

Restaurant Marketing Has Changed. Have You?

DRYVER combines loyalty, email, texting, social media, reputation, surveys... and more—into a complete done-for-you

SMART Offers: Condition customers to spend more.

Attract, Build, Retain: The genius strategy you’ve never seen

Profit Stacks: Builds high-profit revenue streams for catering, lunch, online ordering and more—stacked on autopilot.

All-in-One, Done-for-You: No guesswork. No wasted spend. Just packed tables and higher sales,

Turn your marketing into money.

Fact: DRYVER was developed by a restaurant owner who scaled his own sales by 1,067% in just three years.

ABR-U

Get Featured

Your backstage-pass to join high-caliber restaurant owners for events networking, insights, and training. You'll stay sharp, and stay ahead.

You’re next—but slots vanish quick.

10X Club

Get Slammed

Attract customers who spend more and stay longer with with our triple-action Attract—Build—Retain marketing framework. Build your lunch traffic, catering, deliveries, online orders, profit-per-customer—and more.

All-in-one—done-for-you. Mind-blowing results.

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How Do We Achieve Such

Remarkable Results For Our Clients?

Our common-sense "Attract, Build, Retain" marketing framework

builds your restaurant sales all three ways, at the same time—every day.

Attract

Marketing isn’t just about being seen—it’s about getting people to take action.Most restaurants waste money on ads that don’t convert. We help you attract new customers and turn that attention into real visits.

✅ Get in front of the right people.

✅ Give them an irresistible reason to visit.

✅ Make it effortless for them to say yes.

build

Attention means nothing if you don’t capture it. Most restaurants don’t know who their customers are, how often they visit, or how to reach them. We help you build a database of customer data so you can market to them.

✅ Convert attention into a customer database.

✅ Capture new and returning customers.

✅ Own your marketing instead of renting it.

retain

Customers don’t just come back—you have to give them a reason.Loyalty doesn’t happen by accident. We help you automate customer retention so your best guests visit more often and spend more.

✅ Automated marketing to bring back guests.

✅ Smart offers that increase check averages.

✅ Keeping customers engaged between visits.

Attract

Draw in a flood of new customers with high-impact offers and killer social media buzz that gets them through your door.

build

Supercharge order sizes and frequency with personalized SMART offers that increase profit-per-customer.

retain

Turn first-time guests into lifelong fans with ongoing, automated engagement that keeps them coming back.

Step Into a World Where You’re…

🎉 Packing the house nightly 📱 Dominating local searches 💰 Raking in bigger profits 🌟 Earning rave reviews 🍴 Serving up sold-out specials

What We Stand By: The ABR Method

The success of a restaurant isn’t just about great food—it’s about getting noticed, capturing customer data, and keeping them coming back. Big chains spend millions to do this. Independent restaurants? Most rely on hope. We replace “hope and pray” marketing with a system that drives real, repeatable results.

Attract

Marketing isn’t just about being seen—it’s about getting people to take action.Most restaurants waste money on ads that don’t convert. We help you attract new customers and turn that attention into real visits.

✅ Get in front of the right people.

✅ Give them an irresistible reason to visit.

✅ Make it effortless for them to say yes.

build

Attention means nothing if you don’t capture it. Most restaurants don’t know who their customers are, how often they visit, or how to reach them. We help you build a database of customer data so you can market to them.

✅ Convert attention into a customer database.

✅ Capture new and returning customers.

✅ Own your marketing instead of renting it.

retain

Customers don’t just come back—you have to give them a reason.Loyalty doesn’t happen by accident. We help you automate customer retention so your best guests visit more often and spend more.

✅ Automated marketing to bring back guests.

✅ Smart offers that increase check averages.

✅ Keeping customers engaged between visits.

Attract

Marketing isn’t just about being seen—it’s about getting people to take action.Most restaurants waste money on ads that don’t convert. We help you attract new customers and turn that attention into real visits.

✅ Get in front of the right people.

✅ Give them an irresistible reason to visit.

✅ Make it effortless for them to say yes.

build

Attention means nothing if you don’t capture it. Most restaurants don’t know who their customers are, how often they visit, or how to reach them. We help you build a database of customer data so you can market to them.

✅ Convert attention into a customer database.

✅ Capture new and returning customers.

✅ Own your marketing instead of renting it.

retain

Customers don’t just come back—you have to give them a reason.Loyalty doesn’t happen by accident. We help you automate customer retention so your best guests visit more often and spend more.

✅ Automated marketing to bring back guests.

✅ Smart offers that increase check averages.

✅ Keeping customers engaged between visits.

Get Featured On The Roadshow

Ready for the spotlight? Our crews travel the country, spotlighting independent restaurants like yours with a pro-level episode and social media blitz that attracts customers and builds momentum.

  • Attract Attention: Your restaurant pops on social

  • Build Buzz: Engagement, likes, comments, and shares spread the word

  • Drive Revenue: Views, visits and fans become high-spending regulars

Ready to establish your restaurant as the must-visit local hotspot?

Books

We wrote the book on restaurant marketing

Turn your restaurant into a local sensation. Our film crew features your restaurant in a pro video that highlights the magic and tells your story. Expect huge crowds, new customers, and long-term buzz.

You’re next—but slots vanish quick.

Podcast

Get Slammed

Attract customers who spend more and stay longer with with our triple-action Attract—Build—Retain marketing framework. Build your lunch traffic, catering, deliveries, online orders, profit-per-customer—and more.

All-in-one—done-for-you. Mind-blowing results.

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Increase your ticket average—today!

FIVE TACTICS of creating a plan that will produce predictable marketing successes with measurable results.

A Letter from Matt Plapp,

CEO of America’s Best Restaurants...

Dear Restaurant Friend,

Restaurant owners like you are the backbone of our industry. But let’s be real—marketing today is a mess. You’re pulled in a thousand directions, wasting time and money on promotions that don’t deliver.

My team and I have spent years helping independent owners get noticed, attract customers, and grow their sales. We’ve featured 3,000+ restaurants, driven over a billion in new revenue, and helped thousands take control of their marketing.

If you’re ready for a real plan that fills seats, packs lunch rushes, and drives repeat business without discounting yourself into the ground—your journey starts here.

Let’s build something big together...

Matt Plapp

CEO, America’s Best Restaurants

PS: Grab a free copy of my best-selling book... 👇

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Trusted Partners | America's Best Restaurants
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Trusted Partners Of

America's Best Restaurants

We're often asked who we trust and recommend beyond our own services. This page highlights companies we've vetted, worked alongside, and confidently recommend to independent restaurant owners.

Mailwise Solutions
Direct Mail & Dine-In Marketing

Mailwise Solutions

We recommend Mailwise Solutions for restaurants looking to expand beyond digital marketing. Their targeted direct mail campaigns and dine-in marketing materials deliver measurable results and are trusted by restaurant owners to drive real response and growth.

"Mailwise Solutions is the BEST direct mail marketing company I have ever found. Being a small local chain, their services have been outstanding, with second-to-none customer service. They are fully transparent and make direct mail easy on your schedule, delivering high-quality pieces that keep your business top of mind in the community." — Jacob Stephens, Post Game Pizza
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David Scott Peters
Restaurant Coaching & Operations

David Scott Peters

David Scott Peters helps independent restaurants grow by teaching owners how to run their business more effectively, optimize operations, and reclaim freedom from day-to-day chaos through structured coaching and proven systems.

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Ovation
Guest Experience & Feedback

Ovation

We recommend Ovation for any independent restaurant serious about their guest experience. Their two-question text-based survey platform makes it frictionless for guests to share real feedback the moment it matters, and gives owners the ability to recover unhappy customers in real time — before that one bad experience turns into a public review. It's guest experience management built specifically for restaurants, and it pairs perfectly with the database and marketing systems ABR builds for you.

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Behind The Partnerships

On The Road With Our Partners

These aren't logos we slapped on a page. These are companies we know, trust, and spend real time with — at conferences, at restaurants, and on the road.

Matt with the Mailwise Solutions team
Mailwise Solutions Matt with the Mailwise team
Matt with David Scott Peters
David Scott Peters Matt with David Scott Peters
Matt with the Ovation team
Ovation Matt with the Ovation team

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