Digital marketing for restaurants in Australia
Fill midweek covers without paying 18% to an aggregator.
Or talk to a specialist now on 1300 753 650
Google Premier Partner
Top-3% of Australian Google Ads partners, audited on client performance every year.
One specialist, not a call centre
A named local specialist owns your account and picks up when you ring.
Reporting you can read
Monthly reporting in plain English — calls, enquiries and where they came from.
The restaurants we work with
At Localsearch, we market restaurants for the decision made on a phone, twenty minutes before someone wants to eat. Photos, hours, menu and a direct booking link decide it. Every table you take through your own channels instead of an aggregator keeps the commission in your pocket, and that difference compounds fast on midweek trade.
What we hear most
- 1Delivery and booking platforms take a cut of trade you already earned.
- 2The menu online is a PDF from two price rises ago.
- 3Weekends are full and Tuesday to Thursday sits half empty.
See what a customer sees
Type in a suburb and watch the search happen
Nearly every job for restaurants starts the same way — a service plus a suburb, typed into a phone. The three businesses in the map pack take the calls. Everyone below scrolls past.
Want your real result? Run the free AI visibility check or audit your Google Business Profile.
- 1Your businessYou4.9(187) · Restaurants · Melbourne Call Directions
- 2Melbourne Restaurants Co.4.8(143) · Restaurants · Melbourne
- 3Ace Restaurants4.7(96) · Restaurants · Melbourne
Illustration of a local search result for restaurants — not live Google data.
The four steps between a search and a phone call
- 1
Searches
"restaurants near me"
- 2
Sees your profile
Stars, hours, photos
- 3
Checks your site
Loads in under 2s
- 4
Calls you
Tracked, not guessed
How people search for restaurants
The searches that matter for restaurants are the ones with a suburb attached. Those are the people ready to book, not researching.
We build your local SEO and Google Ads around this language, then make sure your Google Business Profile and website answer it in the first line.
Search patterns we target
- restaurants near me
- restaurants prices
- restaurants reviews
- restaurants best rated
- local restaurants
- restaurants + your suburb
The playbook for restaurants
In priority order, start here, layer the rest as you grow.
Google Business Profile
Photos, hours, menu link and reviews. This decides nearly every restaurants near me search before anyone reaches your website.
Websites
A fast mobile menu in real text, direct booking and clear parking and access details — no PDF, no pinch-to-zoom.
Reviews
Recent reviews with photos are what people scroll before choosing between you and the venue next door.
Social Media
Specials, new menus and midweek offers land best with the locals who already follow you.
Your first 90 days with Localsearch
No lock-in guesswork. Here's the order we work in for restaurants, and what you should see at each stage.
- Days 1–14
Audit and baseline
We map how you currently show up against other restaurants in your service area — map rankings, search terms, reviews, site speed and where enquiries leak. You get the numbers before anything changes.
- Days 15–30
Fix the foundations, starting with Google Business Profile
Google Business Profile carries the most weight for restaurants, so it gets sorted first. Websites follows, because there is no point sending traffic to a page that does not convert.
- Days 31–60
Go live and start compounding with Reviews
Reviews work begins in earnest and the first month of data comes in. This is usually where "Delivery and booking platforms take a cut of trade you already earned." starts to shift.
- Days 61–90
Optimise, then layer Social Media
We cut what is not converting, put more behind what is, and build social media into the routine so results keep stacking after the first quarter.
Proof from a similar business
How Bulley Roof Restoration grew website traffic by 336% and built a life-changing business
+336%
increase in website traffic
+11%
increase in form conversions
Stronger
local search visibility
"Localsearch gets me all my clients these days. It's allowed me to buy a home for my family, build relationships in the community and overall, just have a better quality life."
Figures are this client's results over the period stated, measured in Google Analytics, Google Search Console and Google Business Profile Insights. They're an example, not an average or a guarantee, and your results will differ.
Questions restaurants ask
Should the menu be a PDF?
No. PDFs load slowly, can't be read properly on a phone and don't rank. A plain HTML menu page is faster to update and appears in search on its own.
How do we reduce aggregator commission?
Make direct ordering and booking the easiest option everywhere you appear — profile, site, social — and mention it in-venue. Most venues shift a meaningful share within a couple of months.
What lifts midweek trade?
Locals, not tourists. Profile posts, reviews and social aimed at your suburb do more for Tuesday than any broad campaign.
Still deciding? Call 1300 753 650 or read the full FAQs.
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1300 753 650 · enquiries@localsearch.com.au · Last updated 7 August 2026