The Wonder Agency
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Marketing agency for restaurants, hotels and bars

Everything you need to be doing to get more bookings: content, social media, ads, search, websites and email. All done for you, by one team.

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Selected clients

Restaurants, hotels, bars and food and drink brands, from London to Paris.

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Our specialism

A digital agency that specialises in hospitality.

Restaurants, hotels, bars and food and drink brands are what we know best. Michelin-starred restaurants, hotel groups and independents trust us to run their marketing, with one team covering content, social, ads, search, websites and email.

What we know

We know what makes people book.

Why someone picks one restaurant over another, books a hotel for the weekend, or comes back for a second visit. Everything we make is built around that.

How we work

Measured in bookings and revenue.

Not likes. Every month you get a plain report: what worked, what didn't, and what we're changing next.

we turn

attention

into

covers

regulars

revenue

bookings

for hospitality

In numbers
30M+Impressions per month
4,200+Content pieces produced

The seven things

that fill

your tables

These are the seven things that decide whether people find you, choose you and book. Get them right and the bookings follow. Take one, or let us run them all.

01 / Photo / Video / Reels

Content creation

Photos and videos of your venue, food and team, made for every channel.

We plan and run shoots in your venue, then produce everything that comes out of them. One shoot day feeds a month of social, your website, your ads and your email, so you are not paying for content twice.

  • Photography and video shoots on location
  • Reels and short-form edits
  • Menu, interior and team photography
  • Graphic design and creative direction
More about content creation
02 / Strategy / Daily posting

Social media management

We run your Instagram, TikTok and Facebook: posting, replies and monthly reports.

We take the accounts off your hands entirely. Strategy, calendar, daily posting, replying to every comment and DM, and a monthly report that tells you what actually moved.

  • Content calendars and daily scheduling
  • Community management, comments and DMs
  • Platform and algorithm optimisation
  • Monthly performance reporting
More about social media management
03 / Meta / Google

Paid advertising

Meta and Google ads that bring in bookings.

Paid campaigns judged on covers and revenue, not impressions. We build the creative, set the targeting, and cut what is not working fast.

  • Meta and Google campaign management
  • Audience targeting and retargeting
  • Paid creative production and testing
  • Tracking to the booking
More about paid advertising
04 / SEO / Wonder Score

SEO and AI search

Get found on Google, and recommended when people ask ChatGPT where to eat.

People increasingly ask ChatGPT and Gemini where to eat rather than searching. We do the traditional SEO work and the newer work that decides whether an AI assistant names you, tracked with our own tool, Wonder Score.

  • Technical SEO and site performance
  • Local SEO and Google Business Profile
  • Content and keyword strategy
  • AI search visibility (GEO) and Wonder Score tracking
More about SEO and AI search
05 / Creators / Visits / Reporting

Influencer marketing

The right local creators at your tables, briefed properly and measured on bookings.

A good creator visit is a recommendation from a friend, seen by thousands. We find creators whose audience matches your guests, brief them on what to show, handle the invitations and report on what they brought in.

  • Creator sourcing and vetting
  • Invitations, visits and briefing
  • Paid partnerships and usage rights
  • Reporting on reach and bookings
More about influencer marketing
06 / Design / Build / Convert

Website design

Fast websites that turn visitors into bookings.

Most hospitality websites lose people between the menu and the booking button. We design and build fast, mobile-first sites around that single journey, then keep them updated so they do not go stale.

  • Custom design and build
  • Booking system integration
  • Speed and Core Web Vitals work
  • Ongoing updates and maintenance
More about website design
07 / Campaigns / Automation

Email marketing

Newsletters and automated emails that bring guests back.

The cheapest way to fill a quiet week is to talk to people who have already been in. We build the list, segment it properly, and send campaigns and automated flows that bring them back.

  • Campaign design and copywriting
  • List growth and segmentation
  • Automated flows and sequences
  • Deliverability and reporting
More about email marketing
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Brunch
Burgers and steak
On the grill
Creator visit, first bite
Fine dining plates
Christmas lunch
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Who we

work with

01
Restaurants

From Michelin-starred dining rooms to neighbourhood favourites.

Marketing for restaurants
02
Hotels

Rooms, restaurants, bars, events and weddings.

Marketing for hotels
03
Bars

Cocktail bars, pubs and late-night venues.

Marketing for bars and pubs
04
Brands

Food and drink brands, from launch to shelf.

Marketing for food and drink brands
Soufflé and caramel
Ribs
Focaccia
Spaghetti
Sunday roast
Izakaya
In the kitchen
Fresh truffle
Steak
Events
Grill feast
French classics
Burgers
Lasagne
Flambé
Banana soufflé

Results for

our clients

Restaurant · three years
£3.2m → £4.6m

Annual revenue, grown over three years.

A focused digital marketing strategy that significantly increased the venue’s visibility, engagement and booking demand, and strengthened its digital presence and reputation.

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Hotel · three months
+58%

Year-on-year food and beverage revenue, with room bookings up 26%.

Brought in to drive performance across both rooms and food and beverage. In three months we overhauled the hotel’s digital presence, refined its storytelling, tightened targeting and made it easier to find, so more interest turned into bookings.

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Three-restaurant group · Q4
+18%

Year-on-year revenue across Q4 for a group of three Central London restaurants.

Brought in to drive performance across three Central London restaurants during a key trading period. Across Q4 we refreshed the group’s digital presence, sharpened its messaging and visual storytelling, and used targeted distribution to turn demand into bookings.

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Michelin-starred restaurant · three months
+95%

Set lunch bookings by month three, against before the campaign.

We worked with the chef to reshape the set menu so it caught people’s imagination, then ran a full marketing campaign around it.

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Historic City venue · six weeks
220–250

Covers every Saturday, six weeks after launch.

We launched a Saturday brunch in a historic City of London venue with no history of weekend trade, using content, social, creators and targeted ads together. Six weeks in, it sells out consistently.

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Cookbook relaunch · October 2025
48 hours

To sell out the limited run.

Phil Howard’s The Square: Savoury and Sweet are two of the most celebrated cookbooks of a generation, and had been out of print for years. We built the website and ran the launch campaign to bring them back, possibly for the last time, alongside a combined collector’s edition limited to 250 hand-numbered copies.

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Coffee auction · a first
$4,688/kg

Average lot price: the highest of any coffee auction in the world.

Longboard grows rare Panama Geisha at Misty Mountain in Boquete. We launched their first ever private auction: a rebuilt website, new content telling the story of the brand, the marketing for the auction, and the artwork and boxes for the lots and sample sets.

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+95%

Michelin-starred restaurant

Mid-week set lunch bookings within three months. We repositioned the lunch offer, ran a three-week paid push and rebuilt the booking journey.

+18%

Three-restaurant group

Q4 revenue year-on-year after a full digital overhaul: new sites, new photography and a new paid structure.

The free

audit

See what we'd fix first.

Send us your venue and we'll review your marketing from the outside, the way a guest sees it. You get a plain account of what's working, what isn't, and what we'd do first. No charge and no obligation.

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  1. 01
    Social and contentWhat you post, how it looks, and whether anyone acts on it.
  2. 02
    Paid adsWhere the budget goes and what it brings back in bookings.
  3. 03
    Search and AI searchHow you show up on Google, and whether AI assistants name you.
  4. 04
    Website and bookingHow many people you lose between the menu and the booking button.
Step 1

We audit

You tell us about your venue. We review your marketing and send back what we found. Free, with no obligation.

Step 2

We plan

One plan across the channels you need, with a clear goal: more bookings, more revenue, more recognition.

Step 3

We run it

Shoots, posting, ads and search, handled. A monthly report says plainly what worked, what didn't and what changes next.

Wonder Score

Are you recommended by AI?

More and more people ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity where to eat, drink and stay, and AI recommends just a handful of names. Wonder Score, our own tool, analyses your website and your competitors, shows where you stand, and tells you what to change to get recommended more. Then we can do the work for you.

  • ChatGPT
  • Gemini
  • Perplexity
  • Google AI
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Questions

Our specialism is hospitality and lifestyle: restaurants, hotels, bars, and food and drink brands, from Michelin-starred rooms to hotel groups and independents. It's where we have the deepest experience and the strongest results, so it's where we start. The same approach works for other consumer-facing brands, and we take that work on selectively.

Content creation (photography, videography, reels, design), social media management, targeted advertising across Meta and Google, SEO and AI search visibility, influencer marketing, web design and build, and email marketing. Most clients take several together, because the channels work harder when they're aligned.

Generative Engine Optimisation is making your brand visible inside AI-generated answers: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google's AI overviews. When someone asks an assistant where to eat in your area, GEO decides whether you're in the answer. We measure it with our own tool, Wonder Score, then do the work that moves it.

Most clients see measurable movement within three months. We've delivered a 58% year-on-year increase in food and beverage revenue and a 95% increase in set lunch bookings, both inside a three-month window. Compounding gains in search, brand and audience take longer and are worth more.

Yes. We work across the UK and internationally. Content production travels; strategy, social, paid and search are location-independent. Several of our clients are outside London entirely.

Monthly reporting on bookings, revenue, engagement, follower growth and advertising return: commercial outcomes rather than vanity metrics. We say plainly what worked, what didn't, and what we're changing next month.

Latest

thinking

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audit

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