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Paid ads for QSR / Food

Paid media for food brands where every store is its own P&L.

QSR chains, cafés, dessert concepts, delivery-first restaurants. We run geo-local paid campaigns tied to store-level inventory, LTO windows and delivery-platform performance.

11
food brands active
$14M
managed spend / yr
+62%
median delivery-app orders
QSR / Food ad
What's breaking in QSR / Food

Food marketing breaks the usual paid-social playbook.

01

A 14-day LTO and a 6-week creative cycle.

The Dubai Chocolate launch ran for 10 days. Your storyboard was still in review on day 7. Half the LTOs in your calendar get under-supported, every time.

02

DoorDash, UberEats, Skip — three different conversion events.

Your Meta pixel fires on the menu page. The actual order happens on someone else's app. Nobody can tell you if the ad worked, only that the cart-initiate went up.

03

Store-level inventory is the silent CPA killer.

You run a viral TikTok for a menu item. Half the stores sell out by noon. The other half get blamed for poor execution. Geo + inventory awareness is a solved problem — most agencies don't solve it.

Our QSR / Food playbook

How we run QSR and food accounts.

Week 0

Calendar + store map

Map every LTO, seasonal push and new-store opening for the next 90 days. Overlay store-level sales velocity. Find the 3 LTOs that historically under-converted because media didn't fire on time.

Weeks 1–2

Creative templates

Food-first creative system. Product hero videos (8–15s), hand model POV, UGC drops. Templates shipped once, menu items swap as variables. LTO creative hits in 48 hours, not 10 days.

Weeks 3+

Channel + geo

Meta + TikTok for reach, delivery-platform retargeting, geo-targeted local store campaigns. Programmatic OOH where the media price makes sense.

Ongoing

Store-level reporting

Per-store delivery-app + POS reconciliation weekly. Franchisees see their own store's performance. The conversation stops being 'do your ads work' and starts being 'which stores need more support.'

Case studies

Brands we've moved numbers for.

Dessert chain · $180k/mo
Cold Stone Creamery
12 months · Meta, TikTok, DSP
+74%
Delivery orders
3.1×
LTO redemption

Dubai Chocolate launch creative built and live within 72 hours of briefing. Drove 74% lift in delivery orders in the first 14 days, LTO sold out in 11 of 14 target markets.

We've never shipped an LTO creative system that fast.
VP Marketing
Café franchise · $95k/mo
Chaiiwala
10 months · Meta, TikTok, local
+48%
Foot traffic
2.2×
App downloads

Founder-led TikTok concepts + geo-targeted local opening campaigns across 28 UK stores. Karak-chaii launch reached #1 category search in 3 weeks.

The first paid partner that understood franchise economics.
Head of Growth
Restaurant group · $220k/mo
Multi-concept restaurant group
ongoing · portfolio
+33%
Delivery revenue
−19%
Cost/order

Unified paid strategy across 4 concept brands with per-store attribution. Delivery-platform spend doubled without CPA erosion.

Examples in the wild

Creative we've shipped for QSR / Food brands.

Static, story and video units from accounts we've run. Each one tested against a kill rule, not a subjective review.

Cold Stone — Dubai Chocolate
Cold Stone
Dubai Chocolate
Cold Stone — We deliver
Cold Stone
We deliver
Chaiiwala — Freshly prepared
Chaiiwala
Freshly prepared
Chaiiwala — Karak Chaii
Chaiiwala
Karak Chaii
Chaiiwala — Wala Wrap
Chaiiwala
Wala Wrap
Colin — Foodography
Colin
Foodography
QSR / Food FAQ

Questions QSR / Food marketers ask.

Not usually — the spend doesn't justify our team setup. We're built for 10+ location chains, franchise groups, and delivery-first brands.
Yes. We pull per-store order data via partner APIs or weekly exports, reconcile against platform ad spend, and report blended cost-per-order. Real numbers, not platform-reported.
48–72 hours from brief to live, assuming templates exist. First LTO after onboarding is usually 5 days. Every one after is under 3.
Yes. Co-op-compliant creative, franchisee-level reporting dashboards, approval workflows for franchisee-contributed spend.
For food, unit economics still don't justify the operational overhead in most markets. We'll tell you when it does.
Ready when you are

Let's make your next LTO actually land.

Bring your 90-day LTO calendar. We'll show you the drops that historically under-converted and the creative system that fixes it.

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