For Restaurants & Venues

Get local creators through your door

We match your venue with vetted Melbourne food creators who visit, film, and post to an audience that actually lives nearby. No agency retainers. No contracts.

Free, no obligation. Within 48 hours you'll get a suggested campaign and the creators we'd match you with.

Why It Works

Numbers that move diners

100k
Average Views
Our top-performing creator content averages around 100,000 views across Instagram and TikTok
8.2%
Engagement Rate
Creators under 10,000 followers average around 8.2% engagement, against roughly 2.3% for accounts over 50,000
$5.78
Return Per $1
Average return for every dollar spent on influencer marketing
Sound Familiar?

Finding the right creator is harder than it should be

You know creator content works. The problem is finding the right person.

The DM grind

You message 20 creators. Three respond. One shows up. Maybe they post, maybe they don't.

Agency prices

Agencies charge $1,500 to $5,000 per campaign. For most venues that's the whole marketing budget.

Wrong audience

A creator with 50K followers sounds great until you realise none of them live near your venue.

How It Works

We do the finding for you

Tell us about your venue. We handle the rest.

1

Tell us your venue

Your cuisine, your location, and what you want to promote. A new menu, a quiet midweek, an opening.

2

We match you

We find creators whose audience, style and suburb fit your venue. You approve before anything happens.

3

They visit and post

Your creator visits for a comped meal, then films it around the formats and sounds currently working on the platform, not a generic ad. Posted within 7 days.

4

We write it up

We publish a write-up of the visit on our food guide, built around the thing that makes your venue worth searching for.

Top post 200k+
Linh, food and travel creator behind @dateswith.linh
Creator Spotlight

The kind of creator we match you with

Linh is one of our Melbourne food creators. Her videos reach an average of 10x her audience size, with top posts reaching over 100x. Her strongest content regularly clears 200,000 views across Instagram and TikTok.

200k+Top post views
11%Avg engagement
10xAvg reach
See her full creator profile
Beyond The Reel

We don't stop at the post

Most creator campaigns end the moment the post stops circulating. We look for ways to keep your venue in front of people well after that, not just on social.

So alongside the content, we publish a write-up of the visit on our Melbourne food guide, built around the keywords people genuinely type in when they're deciding where to eat.

We do the keyword research and handle the technical side, from how the page is structured to the markup search engines actually read. It's the part most venues and other agencies never get to.

Live example
A venue write-up on the RealEats Melbourne food guide
The Difference

Agency vs. RealEats

The old model doesn't work for most Melbourne venues.

The old way

  • Pay an agency $1,500 to $5,000 per campaign
  • Get paired with creators who may not know your cuisine
  • Locked into monthly retainers and contracts
  • No guarantee the creator's audience is local
  • Weeks of back-and-forth before anything happens
  • It's over once the post stops circulating
Recommended

With RealEats

  • A small campaign fee, a fraction of agency pricing
  • Matched with creators who fit your cuisine and area
  • No contracts, no retainers, cancel anytime
  • Every creator's audience is local to your venue
  • Creator visits within days of matching
  • Plus a write-up on our food guide that keeps working

The full comparison, with what agencies publish about their own fees

Free, No Obligation

Tell us about your venue.
We'll write the brief.

Send us your venue, your cuisine and what you're trying to promote, whether that's a new menu, a quiet midweek or an opening. We'll come back within 48 hours with a campaign brief written for you. It costs nothing and you're not committing to anything.

What's in the brief

  1. What our creators can film at your venue. The dishes, the hook and angles, and the format that's working on Instagram and TikTok right now for venues like yours.
  2. The write-up we'd publish. The key search terms we'd build it around, to help your venue gain traction outside of social media.
  3. What it would cost. The estimated cost, in the brief. You don't have to book a call to find out.

Takes about two minutes. No card, no call, no obligation.

Still Hungry?

Frequently asked questions

How much does it cost?

Sign up is free. You pay a small campaign fee only when we match you with a creator you've approved, plus a comped meal for them. No retainers, no contracts, no hidden fees.

How do you pick the right creator for my venue?

We look at location, cuisine match, content quality, engagement rate and audience demographics. Every creator we suggest has a following concentrated in your area.

What if I don't like the creator you suggest?

You always approve before anything goes ahead. If the match isn't right, we find someone else. You're never locked in.

Can I reuse the content on my own channels?

Yes. Every reel, post and story is yours to reshare. One creator visit keeps working for you long after the meal.

Do you write about my venue as well?

Yes. After the visit we publish a write-up on our Melbourne food guide, using the creator's photos and honest thoughts, built around the search terms that actually fit your venue rather than just your name. We disclose that the meal was complimentary, which is both required and what keeps it credible. We can't promise a particular Google ranking, but the page is yours to link to and it keeps working long after the reel has gone quiet.

How do you make sure the content actually performs?

Our creators build each video around the formats, hooks and sounds currently working on Instagram and TikTok, rather than filming something that looks like an ad. That's usually the difference between a post that reaches a creator's own followers and one the algorithm pushes well beyond them.

What platforms do creators post on?

Primarily Instagram and TikTok. We match you with creators on the platform that makes most sense for your venue and audience.

Let's fill your tables

Tell us about your venue and what you want to promote. We'll come back with a campaign and the creators we'd match you with.

Free, no obligation. You only pay if you approve a match.