EMAIL FOR RESTAURANTS & CAFÉS
Email marketing built for restaurants and cafés
From the Tuesday-night lull to the holiday rush, send the campaign that brings regulars back and fills the seats in between. Build it yourself with a drag-and-drop editor and AI that writes in your voice, or hand your calendar to our team.
Every address checked before you send
Your own sending domain, set up for you
Month to month, no contracts
SOUND FAMILIAR?
The dining room empties. The inbox stays quiet.
You've got the recipe for regulars. Getting them back in the door before the entrée's cold is the hard part, and most restaurant email never gets past the sign-up sheet.
Tuesdays look like a ghost town
Tuesday night shouldn't feel like you're running a diner for ghosts. A reminder about the half-price apps, sent the afternoon before, turns your slowest shift into a reason to come in.
Set it once, and it goes out every week without you remembering to write it.
Regulars go quiet after the holidays
The lunch crowd that loved your soft-shell crab special in June hasn't ordered since. Without a nudge, they drift toward whoever emails them first, usually somebody else.
The sign-up sheet by the register never gets used
Every comment card and loyalty sign-up sits in a drawer instead of turning into a Friday-night reservation. A list you never email is just paper.
Specials change weekly, your emails don't
By the time a seasonal menu email goes out, the special's already gone and the walk-ins have moved on to the next place with a sign in the window.
You can't tell who's actually reading
A newsletter 'opened' by a spam filter looks identical to one your best regular actually read. You've been guessing which campaigns work, not counting.
SEASONAL PLAYBOOK
Campaigns that work for your kitchen
Your calendar already tells you when to send. Here's what to put in the subject line for every slow night, big holiday and new dish, all year.
The Tuesday Table
Your slowest night gets a standing invitation: a half-off app or a free pour, sent Monday afternoon to everyone within driving distance.
Patio's open
The first warm week deserves an email, not just a sandwich board. Announce the patio, the new rosé and the first open slots before anyone else thinks of it.
Valentine's and Mother's Day tables
Reservations for the big dining days fill fast. Send the save-the-date three weeks out, then a last-seats-left nudge the week of.
Birthday club
An automatic email with a free dessert or a drink lands in every regular's inbox during their birthday week, no spreadsheet required.
We miss you at the counter
Anyone who hasn't ordered in 60 days gets a welcome-back offer instead of forgetting you exist.
New on the menu
A new dish, a seasonal roast, a holiday pie: tell its story with a photo and a reserve-your-table button.
Private events and catering
Office parties, graduations, holiday catering: the people who've already dined with you are your easiest next sale.
FROM BRIEF TO INBOX
Soup season, sent in minutes
Subject: Subject
Soup Season Is Back
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You typed one line: 'Butternut squash bisque is back, soup's on through November, bring a friend.' That was the whole brief.
In minutes you had a complete email: a hero photo of the bowl, a line about the first frost, a reserve-a-table button, your logo and colors throughout, ready to send to everyone who's ordered soup from you before.
THE FEATURES YOU'LL USE MOST
Built for a kitchen, not a boardroom
Four features restaurant owners reach for most, from the first draft to the inbox.
WRITE LIKE YOU TALK
AI that writes your specials like you would
Tell it what's on the stove, not how to design an email. Your brand settings hold your logo, colors and the way you write; your brief holds tonight's special, who it's for and the offer.
From that it designs a complete email: a hero photo, the offer, the story behind the dish and a footer with your address, ready in minutes instead of a Tuesday-night scramble.
Built from your brand settings and a one-line brief
A complete email: hero, offer band, footer
Ready to send, not just a draft
Subject: Subject
Friday Fish Fry
Read moreGROW THE LIST AT THE HOST STAND
Turn walk-ins into a list that fills Tuesdays
A QR code on the table tent or a form embedded on your website, no developer required. People who scan it actually want your soup-season email, not whoever walked past the sandwich board.
Forms match your brand automatically and are protected against automated sign-ups, so your list stays real diners, not bots filling in gibberish.
One embed on your website, or its own landing page
Matches your brand automatically
Protected against automated sign-ups
LAND BEFORE THE DINNER RUSH
Your emails arrive from your domain, not a stranger's
We register and set up a sending domain that matches your restaurant's name, authenticate it with SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and host it. No DNS records for you to hunt down at 11pm the night before a launch.
That domain earns its sending reputation gradually, and your pace with Gmail, Yahoo and the rest adjusts automatically, so your 'patio's open' email lands in the inbox, not the folder nobody checks.
Sending domain registered and authenticated for you
Zero DNS records to set up yourself
A pace that earns trust with every inbox provider
FOLLOW UP WITH THE RIGHT TABLE
Win back the brunch crowd, not everyone
Save everyone who clicked your patio email, everyone who opened the holiday menu without booking, and everyone who's gone quiet since last season, straight from campaigns you've already sent.
Resend the holiday reservation reminder with a new subject line to the people who missed it the first time, instead of emailing your whole list twice.
Save clickers, openers and quiet subscribers from any send
Resend to the people who missed it, new subject line
Built from campaigns you've already sent, no spreadsheets
GET STARTED
From sign-up to your first send
Four steps between today and your first campaign, no kitchen required.
Create your account
Sign up in a couple of minutes. No contract, just the plan that fits your list.
Bring your list
Import diners from your reservation system's export, your POS or the sign-up sheet by the register. Every address gets checked before it's used.
Build your first campaign
Tell the AI what's on the menu this week. It designs the email in your colors and your voice, ready for you to review.
Send and watch it land
Launch from your own authenticated domain and watch opens and clicks come in live, counted by real people, not bots.
QUESTIONS
Questions restaurants ask us
Can I import the list from our reservation system or POS?
Yes. Bring a spreadsheet export from whatever system you use, and the importer maps every column to a field for you. If the upload gets interrupted, it picks up right where it stopped.
We're one location with a small team, is this too much for us?
No. Every feature is on every plan, so a single café gets the same drag-and-drop editor, AI writing and domain setup as a group with ten locations. Set up your brand once and reuse it for every send.
Will my campaigns go to spam during the dinner rush?
Every address on your list is checked with its mail server before you send, and your sending domain is authenticated and paced automatically. That's what keeps your 'patio's open' email in the inbox instead of the spam folder.
Our specials change every week, can we keep up?
Tell the AI the new special in one line and it designs the full email in minutes, not hours. There's no template to rebuild every Monday morning.
Are we locked into a contract?
No. Plans run month to month and you can change or cancel anytime. There's no contract to sign or lease to wriggle out of.
Can your team just run our email for us?
Yes. Our done-for-you plans start at $399 a month, and our team plans, writes, designs and sends your campaigns. You just answer when we ask what's cooking.
What do we need to say on every email to stay legal?
US law, the CAN-SPAM Act, asks for an honest subject line, your real address and a working unsubscribe honored within 10 business days. Every campaign you send through us includes your address and an opt-out automatically.
Rule the rush, every night of the week
Month to month, every feature included, your sending domain set up for you.
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