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Concept Project
Restaurant / Hospitality

Ember & Oak

campaign concept
Background

Fine-dining restaurants increasingly get discovered through social content before anything else — the reservation is often the last step in a much longer scroll.

Challenge

A fine-dining restaurant's social presence looked like every other restaurant's — plated-food photos with no sense of atmosphere, and no direct path from a scroll to a reservation.

Strategic Idea

Sell the room and the evening, not the menu — and make booking a table exactly as easy as watching the video.

Target Audience

Local diners planning a special occasion, plus a broader audience discovering the restaurant through shareable short-form content.

Insight

Diners choosing a fine-dining restaurant are buying an evening, not a dish. Content built around plated food alone undersells what's actually being sold.

Campaign Concept

A content series built around the atmosphere of service — not food styling — paired with a one-tap reservation link on every post and story.

content series concept
reservation flow concept
Creative Direction

Dark, cinematic short-form video prioritizing lighting and mood over traditional food photography.

Channel Strategy

Organic and boosted content on Instagram, with retargeting for website visitors who didn't complete a reservation.

Measurement Framework

Reservations attributed to social, and cost per reservation wherever paid promotion is used.

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