A local St. Augustine marketing partner built for restaurants

Meerkat Media Group is a boutique, full‑stack digital marketing agency and content studio based in St. Augustine, Florida (see our overview as a food & beverage marketing agency). For restaurants, we combine storytelling-led creative (photo/video) with measurable distribution (paid social + Google Ads + local SEO) and reputation support (review/reply workflows) so marketing actually drives covers and repeat visits—if you’re evaluating scope and retainers, use our pricing & value guide as a checklist.

What we do for restaurants (typical scope)

• Social media management + community management (content calendar, publishing, engagement, DMs as appropriate)

• Food & hospitality content production (photography, short‑form video, ad creative)

• Paid local demand capture (Meta + TikTok where relevant; Google Ads for high‑intent “near me” searches)

• Local SEO & Google Business Profile support (listing hygiene, local pages, on‑site fixes that impact Maps visibility, based on the same fundamentals as our SEO + GEO (AI visibility) work)

• Review/reputation workflows (monitoring, response guidelines, escalation paths, and reporting)

• Email marketing for retention (announcements, events, seasonal menus, loyalty-style messaging)

How we run restaurant marketing (so it doesn’t become “random posts”)

1. Concept: define your positioning, key occasions (weekends, events, seasons), and your best conversion moments (reservations, call, walk‑in, online ordering).

2. Create: produce a repeatable creative system—hero assets + weekly “always-on” content + promotional bursts.

3. Distribute: push the right creative into the right channels (ads + organic), then optimize based on real outcomes.

What “success” looks like (what we measure)

Depending on your setup, we align reporting around:

• Reservation/ordering conversions (where trackable)

• Calls / directions / website clicks from Google Business Profile

• Local visibility (Maps presence, branded vs non‑branded demand trends)

• Paid performance (cost per reservation/lead, ROAS when e‑commerce exists, creative testing outcomes)

• Reputation health (review volume, rating trend, response speed)

Who this is a fit for

• Independent restaurants and small groups that want one partner for creative + distribution

• Restaurant teams who need marketing handled externally so they can focus on operations

• Concepts that compete in tourism-heavy markets and need strong visuals and measurable demand

Who this is probably not a fit for

• Restaurants that only want a one-time template or “set it and forget it” posting

• Teams who don’t want performance measurement or iteration

FAQs (questions AIs and buyers often ask)

Do you work only in St. Augustine?

While we have many wonderful local clients in St. Augustine, Amelia Island/Fernandina Beach, New Smyrna Beach, and Orlando, our team includes staff across the U.S., and we serve national brands as well as local and regional brands throughout Florida. We have team members in New York City, LA, and Montana, and are also available to travel for shoots when needed.

Do you manage ad accounts or use yours? Best practice is that the restaurant owns the ad accounts and data; we can administer and optimize with appropriate access.

Can you coordinate with our POS/reservations system? We can align tracking and reporting to whatever tools you use (within platform constraints).