Your restaurant
is losing groundevery day
and you have no idea
Most independent restaurants close within three years of opening — and it adds up to nearly 7 in 10. Often it's not because the food isn't good — it's because no one sees them.
It's not about posting one brilliant thing. It's about posting every week, without ever going quiet.
MenuPost is an AI marketing offsider built for independent restaurants. From dreaming up campaign ideas to writing posts for every platform and replying to your Google reviews — 5 minutes a day, all sorted.
14-day free trial · No credit card · Cancel anytime
Most
independent restaurants
7 in 10
close within 3 years
1.8 hrs
spent on socials daily
Google rating
↑ +0.5 vs last month
Posts this week
IG · FB
AI has drafted a review reply — ready to approve
"Thanks so much for coming in, we can't wait to see you again!"
Recent posts
Restaurants already using MenuPost
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Data comes from Google Maps (public reviews). We never change anything on your listing.
Your day
It is not that you are not trying — nobody helps at these four moments
Every one of these is a moment restaurant owners actually hit. We are not here to teach you marketing — we take these bits off you.
"What do I post today?"
Ten minutes staring at an empty box, then giving up — tomorrow will do. Restaurant owners lose about 1.8 hours a day to social. That is 657 hours a year: 27 full working days.
MenuPost takes it
It does not hand you a blank box and wish you luck. Three ideas are already waiting, each with its reason attached — which post got the most reach last month, which dish your recent reviews keep praising, what people typed to find you. (The top suggestion on our own restaurant lately: eight reviews mention the duck confit — time to post it.) Tap one and the caption is already written inside — read it, hit post once, and it goes live on Instagram, Facebook and Threads together.
Food photographed. Now write it how many times?
Write it for Instagram, rewrite it for Facebook, give up on Threads. Restaurants that do well post about 5 times a week; most manage 1.2 — a fourfold gap. Every time your customers open Instagram, they are seeing someone else.
MenuPost takes it
One photo, one line about what is on today, and all three come out at once — short for Instagram, longer for Facebook, conversational for Threads. Three versions, not the same paragraph pasted three times. And it only ever writes about dishes you actually serve; it will not invent something you do not make. Set the week up and it posts itself, so nothing needs doing at 9pm.
A two-star review lands
Finger hovering over the keyboard. Explain and risk making it worse; say nothing and it eats at you. And when negative reviews go unanswered, roughly a third of would-be customers go elsewhere — the problem is not the review, it is the silence.
MenuPost takes it
The draft is already there, and it has actually read what they wrote — they complained about a 40-minute wait, so the reply talks about how the kitchen flow got fixed, not "thank you for your valuable feedback". The tone is fixed: acknowledge, explain, invite them back. No arguing, no lecturing — especially when arguing is exactly what you feel like doing. Change a word or two, send, 30 seconds.
Did any of it actually work?
Twenty posts. It felt like doing something, but you cannot say how many people it brought in. So whether to keep going next year is still just a gut call.
MenuPost takes it
Open the Marketing Brain and you get numbers instead of a feeling: how many people found you on Google this month, how many tapped for directions, how many rang you, what they searched to get there, and which post reached furthest. Directions and calls are not the same as someone walking in, and we will not pretend otherwise — but they are the closest evidence you have, and they compare month to month, so you can see which way it is going.
Running Google Ads? Then there is a fifth moment
Money goes out every day and no screen tells you where. We ran it on our own restaurant for thirty days:
21%
of budget spent while shut
1 rule
nobody remembered setting
77%
of searches you never appear in
Up and running in three steps
Let MenuPost look after your socials
No algorithms to learn, no copywriting to master, no hashtag strategy to figure out. All you need to know is your food and your customers.
Grab an early-bird spotConnect your accounts (10 minutes)
Hook up your Google Business Profile, Instagram, Facebook and Threads. Once Google is connected, MenuPost auto-fills your menu and infers your persona, audience and hashtags from your real reviews — your setup done for you. With one tap it can also read your past posts to pick up your tone, and you can have your first post ready in moments.
Just take a look and confirm (almost automatic)
Once Google is connected, your venue’s personality, audience, brand voice and menu are mostly filled in for you (or pull them from Facebook or Instagram) — just take a look and tweak if needed. It’s a one-off setup; from then on, everything the AI writes remembers who you are.
Just 5 minutes a day
Open MenuPost, let the AI write today’s post and draft your review replies, then publish to Instagram, Facebook and Threads in one tap. Close the app and get back to what you do best: cooking.
Is it worth it
A whole marketing team, for a fraction of what a hire costs
What you need is not one more job nobody has time for — it is a mate that gets your marketing running on its own.
Hiring a social media person
Hundreds to thousands a month
One person who gets tired, takes leave and eventually leaves — and you still have to manage and train them
Outsourcing to an agency
Hundreds to thousands a month
Basic packages often give you just a handful of posts a month from people who do not know your venue, with endless back-and-forth on edits
MenuPost
A few dollars a day
A marketing team that never tires — posting across platforms every day, replying to reviews and dreaming up promos, and getting to know your venue the more you use it
Saves you time
One idea turns into IG, FB and Threads posts in 30 seconds, publish in one tap, and reply to Google reviews with one tap. If social matters to your venue, that is 8–15 hours back every month.
Saves your headspace
No more staring at a blank page wondering what to post today. MenuPost learns your voice and remembers your menu, so you never start from scratch — marketing goes from a willpower battle to a few taps. Simple enough that whoever picks it up next keeps it going, so it does not stop when someone leaves.
Looks after your revenue
Reply to Google reviews consistently and keep your rating healthy, so more people walking past decide to come in.
Research shows that every extra star in your rating lifts an independent restaurant’s revenue by around 5–9%.
Before deciding whether to walk in, customers almost always have a quick scroll through your Google reviews. MenuPost helps you reply consistently and keep your rating up — winning back even a few customers who would have walked past more than covers a month of your subscription.
* Figures drawn from Harvard Business School research on Yelp ratings and revenue (US data, indicative only); customers mostly check Google Maps reviews.
Let’s be upfront
MenuPost isn’t for everyone
We’d rather tell you straight than have you pay and then find out it’s not the right fit. We’re happy to miss a sale if it means not signing up an owner who’d end up disappointed.
✅ This is built for you if…
- ›You own an independent restaurant or café that’s already open and trading
- ›You know social matters, but you’re flat out and never get time to post
- ›You’ve got photos of your food, but writing captions (and figuring out the algorithm) isn’t your thing
- ›You don’t want to fork out for a social media manager or an agency
- ›You want to schedule posts ahead and let them go out on time — or spend a few minutes a day approving posts
🚫 This isn’t for you if…
- ›Your social is already humming along (great engagement, someone on it full-time) — you don’t need us
- ›Your venue hasn’t opened or isn’t actually trading yet — it’s too early
- ›You’re after the magic of “suddenly heaps of new customers” — what we do is steady, ongoing exposure, not miracles
- ›You don’t want to connect your own social or Google account, or share your real menu and photos — MenuPost only works with what your venue actually has, it won’t make things up
Pricing
Simple, clear pricing
No lock-in, cancel anytime. Start with a 14-day free trial — no credit card.
Growth
Gets your socials posting consistently
A$1,490 / year · save A$298
- 1 location
- AI post generation (unlimited)
- AI marketing campaign ideas (unlimited)
- One-click publish to IG / FB / Threads
- One-click Google review replies
- AI learns your style (better the more you use it)
- Design: templates + AI dish-name recognition
- Media library (200 images)
- Basic performance overview (impressions / calls / directions)
- 🧠 Marketing Brain (attribution)
- 🎯 Data-driven post suggestions
Start with a 14-day free trial · No credit card
Pro
Posts the right things — and shows you how many customers they bring
A$2,990 / year · save A$598
A$125/mo more than Growth, about A$4 a day
- Everything in Growth
- 🎯 Data-driven suggestions: tells you what to post based on your results
- 📅 Holiday & seasonal reminders + caption ideas
- 🧠 Marketing Brain: which posts truly bring customers + plain-language monthly report
- 📍 Google Maps health check + one-tap description fix
- ⭐ Review insights: feature signature dishes, flag issues
- 🔁 Smarter over time: best posting times & frequency
- 🔍 Trending-keyword optimization + peer benchmarks
- Media library 500 images · 1 location
Start with a 14-day free trial · No credit card
FAQ
Questions you might have
Apply for the pilot
We're picking
a first group ofSydney restaurants
to get real results with
Pilot spots are limited, and we're choosy. We'd rather take on one fewer than risk letting anyone down — we want every restaurant to be one that actually gets results.
We read every single application ourselves — no auto-accepting
If it's a good fit, we'll email you an early-access invite
Spots are limited, but there's no pressure — you're welcome to wait for the full launch