Booking source tracking
Reservations and calls linked to the campaign or listing behind them.
/INDUSTRIES / FOOD & BEVERAGE / INSIGHTS
Restaurant Marketing Insights
Practical notes on measuring restaurant marketing, where guests book by phone, order through apps and walk in after seeing a post.
Diners and shoppers decide in minutes. Visibility in local search and clean ordering paths convert hunger into revenue.
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THE SITUATION
Restaurants get guests from many doors: reservations by phone or app, walk-ins, delivery platforms, direct online orders and events. Few of these are linked to the marketing that triggered them, and owners judge campaigns by how busy the room feels.
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WHY IT MATTERS
Without basic tracking, it is hard to know whether a campaign filled tables or whether the evening would have been busy anyway. Delivery platform orders also hide the cost of commissions when compared with direct orders.
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HOW WE APPROACH IT
We track bookings and direct orders with their source, use call tracking for phone bookings, and compare quiet days before and after campaigns. Delivery platform reports are added to the picture, with commissions, so direct and platform orders can be compared fairly.
/NOTES FROM THE WORK
What restaurant data usually lacks.
- Phone reservations with no record of what prompted them
- Booking tool reports that never reach marketing
- Direct orders and platform orders compared without commissions
- Event campaigns judged by feeling rather than bookings
/WHAT THE WORK COVERS
Order channel comparison
Direct and platform orders compared after commissions.
Quiet day tests
Campaigns tested on slow days to see what they really add.
Tracking setup
GA4, Google Tag Manager, consent mode, and server-side tagging where the ad spend justifies it.
Dashboards
Looker Studio reports built around the decisions you make each month, not around every available metric.
/WHAT WE MEASURE
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Bookings by source
Google, social, website and phone compared.
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Direct order share
How much of the delivery business you own.
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Covers on quiet days
The effect of campaigns where it matters most.
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Event bookings
Tickets or reservations per event campaign.
/HOW LONG IT TAKES
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Tracking audit
We list every tag, event and conversion, and check each one against what really happened on the site.
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Rebuild and validate
Broken or missing tracking is rebuilt and tested against orders, calls or CRM records.
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Reporting and review
A monthly review of the numbers that matter, with the decisions they support written down.
/FAQ
Partly. Call tracking shows which channels bring calls, and a quick question at booking fills the rest.
A light setup is: tracked booking links, call tracking on the listing and a monthly look at bookings by source.
Yes, from the platforms' own reports, added to your direct orders in one simple overview.
Access to analytics and the platform, one person who can approve changes, and an honest picture of what has been tried. Two hours in week one, then a weekly checkpoint.
Not always. It pays off when ad spend is significant or when browser tracking loses a large share of conversions. The tracking audit tells you which case you are in.
FIND OUT WHAT YOUR RESTAURANT DATA IS MISSING
We start by listing how guests book and order today and which of them your reports can see.
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