You know you should post more. You also have a restaurant to run. This is the system that turns 20 minutes on a Sunday into a planned, on-brand week — with the prompts to do it.
A blurry plate, a "we're open!" on a bank holiday, then two weeks of silence. The algorithm punishes silence, and an inconsistent feed makes a good restaurant look shaky. The fix isn't more time — it's a system that plans, writes and schedules the week in one short sitting.
Themes, photos to take and goals for 7 days, built around what's actually happening at your place.
All week's captions written at once, with hooks, calls to action and the right hashtags.
Short Reel scripts and weekly Google Business posts — where people actually search for dinner tonight.
Open a free AI tool (Claude or ChatGPT), tell it about your restaurant once, then run this:
Make me a 7-day Instagram + Facebook plan for my restaurant. This week we have: [special / event / quiet night to fill]. Mix it up — dishes, behind-the-scenes, team, a question to the audience, one promotion. For each day give: the theme, the photo to take, and the goal. Keep it realistic for a busy restaurant.
The full guide gives you the three prompts that run the whole system, a Reel and Google Business playbook, and a 30-day plan to start tomorrow.
I spent 14 years managing restaurants. Marketing always lost to the dinner rush. AI is the first thing that makes a consistent, professional feed possible without a marketing team.
Franky — founder of bridge., 14 years a restaurant manager, founder of All You Can Reserve and Olivia.
Use a free AI tool to plan a week of posts around what's happening at your restaurant, write every caption in your voice with hashtags, and draft Reels and Google Business posts — turning 20 minutes on a Sunday into a planned, on-brand week.
Consistency beats volume. A planned handful of quality posts a week, scheduled in one sitting, outperforms sporadic bursts — the algorithm and your regulars both reward regularity.
Your Google Business Profile. Posting there weekly does more for local discovery than any single Instagram post, because that's where people search for somewhere to eat tonight.