Pricing

Plans that fit your story.

Three monthly packages covering Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok — built from a discovery call where you tell us why you opened, then shaped into a month-by-month plan. Pick the tier that fits this season; change any time.

Want a printable copy for a partner or investor conversation? Each tier has its own Download as PDF button below.

Starter
$499/month

Founding rate — early Bridgeport clients keep this price for good.

For single-location restaurants, food trucks, bakeries, caterers, barbershops and salons.

One price, built around how you actually operate. A dining room fills differently than a service window — so your content plan is shaped to your format, not pulled from a template.

Founder story capture · AI audience discovery · content created for your format across 2 channels · basic Answer Engine Optimization · co-op eligibility

Starter, your way

Weekly deliverables

PlatformFacebookInstagramTikTok
Feed posts / week11
Stories / week1
Short videos / week

means the platform is not included in this plan. Instagram counts are Reels; TikTok counts are native short-form vertical videos.

What's included

  • One-time story video at signup, built from footage you supply
  • 8 feed posts per month across two channels (4 Facebook, 4 Instagram)
  • 4 Stories per month on Facebook
  • Every post AI-drafted, then reviewed by a human before it publishes
  • Monthly performance report
  • Comment monitoring & responses
  • 30-minute discovery call to kick things off

Available to add later

  • Add TikTok to this package
  • Add paid-ad management
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Best value
Growth
$899/month
Three platforms, deeper reach — for when your story has found its stride.

Weekly deliverables

PlatformFacebookInstagramTikTok
Feed posts / week32
Stories / week21
Short videos / week11

means the platform is not included in this plan. Instagram counts are Reels; TikTok counts are native short-form vertical videos.

What's included

  • One-time story video at signup, built from footage you supply
  • One creator-shot video post per month — yours to approve before it publishes
  • 12 feed posts per month on Facebook
  • 8 Stories per month on Facebook
  • 8 feed posts per month on Instagram
  • 4 Reels per month on Instagram
  • 4 Stories per month on Instagram
  • 4 short-form videos per month on TikTok
  • Every post AI-drafted, then reviewed by a human before it publishes
  • Ad creative included (no ad spend)
  • Monthly strategy call
  • Bi-weekly performance report

Available to add later

  • Increase TikTok cadence (4 → 8 short-form videos / month)
  • Add paid-ad campaign management (= ad spend + platform fees)
  • Add local influencer outreach
Email us about Growth
Scale
$1,599/month
Full-throttle social for owners ready to be known across their whole market.

Weekly deliverables

PlatformFacebookInstagramTikTok
Feed posts / week43
Stories / week32
Short videos / week22

means the platform is not included in this plan. Instagram counts are Reels; TikTok counts are native short-form vertical videos.

What's included

  • One-time story video at signup, built from footage you supply
  • One creator-shot video post per month — yours to approve before it publishes
  • 16 feed posts per month on Facebook
  • 12 Stories per month on Facebook
  • 12 feed posts per month on Instagram
  • 8 Reels per month on Instagram
  • 8 Stories per month on Instagram
  • 8 short-form videos per month on TikTok
  • Every post AI-drafted, then reviewed by a human before it publishes
  • Monthly AI-search visibility report — where you turn up in AI answers (Scale only)
  • Priority Answer Engine Optimization work
  • Local influencer outreach (3 collaborations / month)
  • Weekly strategy calls
  • Weekly performance reports
  • Crisis & reputation support

Available to add later

  • Add paid-ad campaign management
Email us about Scale
Bundle
AEO Site

$1,399 build + $199/mo

Build fee

$1,399

one-time

Maintenance

$199/mo

billed monthly after build

Hosted one-page site on clientname.boothbuzz.com with LocalBusiness + FAQPage schema baked in from day one. Layers on top of the monthly AI Search Optimization retainer.
Email us about AEO Site

What's in the build

  • One-page hosted site on clientname.boothbuzz.com, or attached to your own domain
  • LocalBusiness + FAQPage schema baked in from day one (the AEO moat, proved visible)
  • Owner story surfaced on the homepage — uses the intake narrative field
  • Menu, hours, address, phone, and signature dishes wired into structured data
  • CTAs to your reservation or ordering platform

What's in the monthly maintenance

  • Monthly schema audit against your live site
  • Hours, menu, and signature-dish refreshes each month
  • One photo swap + one short content edit per month
  • FAQPage expansion when new menu items or guest FAQs land

AI Search Optimization

Mechanics launching Q-next

When ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews are asked about restaurants like yours, make sure the answer is yours. We handle the schema, the entity graph, and the citations — so the story you have already built irl carries through to the new search engines, too. You keep doing what you do at the pass.

Today we're reserving seats for the first wave of owner-led restaurants. Lock in today's pricing below before the public launch.

$1,199 setup + $599/mo — the setup fee is charged once, then the retainer is billed monthly. AEO is ongoing work: placement is re-decided every time the answer engines re-crawl, so there is no one-time version of it.

Heads-up: the AI Search Optimization engagement assumes you already have a visible site (or will use your own). The AEO Site bundle above adds the hosted one-pager on a boothbuzz subdomain with schema baked in from day one — see /services/aeo-site for the full breakdown.

Built for: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews. The schema, entity and citation work feeds all of them. What we check and report every month is listed below.

One-time, covered by the setup fee

  • Citation & schema audit of your site and the listings that point at it
  • Schema markup work + entity-graph repair for your restaurant

Every month, covered by the retainer

  • Monthly schema & entity audit of your live site, with what changed since last month
  • Entity-consistency checks — the name, phone, and city your site publishes, against the record we hold
  • Citation-network expansion (press, directories, gastronomy blogs, local guides)
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See what's in the package →

Every AEO engagement starts with a one-time setup that audits your site's schema, claims, and entity graph, then ships the fixes. That work is built for the major retrieval backends — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews — because they read the same signals.

Each month after that we re-audit your live site, check that the name, phone, and city it publishes still agree with the record we hold, expand the citation graph (press, directories, gastronomy blogs, local guides), and report what changed since last month.

What we do notyet do is query the engines themselves and tell you which prompts you appeared in. That harness is still in build, and the badge above is honest about it — Perplexity returns citations and can be measured properly; ChatGPT has no API that reflects what a diner actually sees; Google AI Overviews has no API at all. We would rather report what we can prove than quote a number we cannot. Joining the waitlist locks today's pricing for your restaurant.

A few things worth knowing

  • All prices are in US dollars and billed monthly. No annual contract — cancel anytime.
  • Starting a plan carries a one-time setup fee equal to one month of that plan, split across your first three invoices rather than charged up front. It covers onboarding — founder story capture, your content profile and brand voice, and the initial channel and Answer Engine Optimization setup.
  • One-time discovery call is included with every plan so we can tailor deliverables to your menu, neighbourhood, and goals.
  • Ad creative is produced for every plan; actual paid-ad spend and platform fees are billed separately and only with your written approval.
  • Clients budget and fund their own Meta ad spend directly with Meta; this is separate from any BoothBuzz retainer or content-package fee.
  • Pricing subject to change with 30 days notice, and a change applies to new clients only — the rate you sign at is the rate you keep, with no migration and no sunset date.

Starter, your way

What does the Starter plan include?

Starter includes everything an independent food business needs to be found and remembered: your founder story captured and told, AI-driven audience discovery, a steady stream of content created for your format and published across two channels, foundational Answer Engine Optimization so AI search tools can find and recommend you, and eligibility for the BoothBuzz purchasing co-op.

Is the plan different for restaurants and food trucks?

Same plan, same price — different content mix, because the two businesses win differently.

If you run a restaurant, your content plan centers on what fills a dining room: dish features and menu storytelling, atmosphere and behind-the-scenes moments, produced short-form video, and the review and reputation signals that make someone choose you for Friday night.

If you run a food truck, your content plan centers on what drives people to a window: today's location and hours, daily specials the moment they're decided, event and festival presence, and the real-time updates that turn followers into a line. Truck content is built for speed and frequency — posted when it matters, not on a studio schedule.

Neither mix is more than the other. They're each tuned to how your customers decide.

Can my plan change if my business changes?

Yes. Trucks that add a brick-and-mortar location, or restaurants that launch a truck, keep the same Starter plan — we re-tune the content mix to the new format. And when you're ready for more volume, video, and influencer features, Growth is the next step up.

FAQ

Questions owners ask us most

The same questions we hear on every discovery call, answered up front so you can pick a plan on the merits.

Our plans start at $499/mo, and Starter is the entry point — the discovery call tailors the deliverables to your format across two channels. What the monthly cost buys is consistency: your story told properly, content going out on a schedule you do not have to keep yourself, and a report each month of what actually went out and how it did. How quickly that turns into covers depends on your neighbourhood, your format and your season, which is why we set expectations on the call rather than in the invoice.

Starter, Growth, and Scale are the monthly social-media packages — Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok content, replies, and reporting. AEO (AI Search Optimization) is a separate, ongoing engagement: $1,199 setup + $599/mo. The work is built for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — the same schema, entity-graph and citation signals feed all three. What we check and show you every month is your own site: a schema and entity audit with what changed since last month, consistency between the name, phone, and city it publishes and the record we hold, and citation-network expansion. If you also need the site itself, the AEO Site bundle ($1,399 one-time build + $199/mo maintenance) adds a schema-rich one-page site with LocalBusiness + FAQPage baked in from day one. AEO is never bundled into the social packages — you add it when you want AI search results to bring you new diners. Scale includes a monthly AI-search visibility report, which is measurement: which answer engines are naming you, for which questions, and what changed since last month. AI Search Optimization is the work that moves the result, and Scale clients get that work prioritised in the queue when they buy it. The report tells you where you stand; the engagement is what changes it.

Monthly. Cancel any time — there is no annual commitment. Starting a plan carries a one-time setup fee equal to one month of that plan, spread across your first three invoices rather than charged up front; from the fourth month on it is the monthly rate alone. List pricing can shift for new clients, with 30 days notice; the rate you sign at is the rate you keep for as long as you stay on that plan. We do not move existing clients onto new pricing.

Yes — one, charged once. Starting a plan carries a setup fee equal to one month of that plan, spread across your first three invoices; from the fourth month on it is the monthly rate alone. It covers the work that happens before anything is published: founder story capture, your content profile and brand voice, and the initial channel and Answer Engine Optimization setup. The discovery call itself is included with every plan.

Yes. The AEO Site bundle can be hosted on your own domain instead of the standard clientname.boothbuzz.com subdomain — that swap is included in the $1,399 one-time build fee, which also covers the schema markup, owner story on the homepage, and the LocalBusiness + FAQPage work. After launch, the $199/mo maintenance covers monthly schema audits, menu and hours refreshes, one photo swap and one short edit each month, and FAQPage expansion as new menu items or guest questions land. Domain registration and hosting are on you, the same way a typical website is — we do not resell those.

Yes. No annual contract — every plan is monthly, and there is no cancellation fee. If a plan is not the right fit, we would rather part on good terms and pick the work back up when it makes sense.

Still not sure which tier fits?

Tell us about your restaurant — the cuisine, the neighbourhood, the platforms you already post on — and we'll point you to the plan that fits your story best, over a 30-minute call.

Or reach us directly at support@boothbuzz.cafe