Full service marketing · Built for hospitality · Tampa

We scale
restaurants.

Noticed online. Packed in person. Scale or Die is the full service marketing company built for hospitality: content, social, ads, web, AI, systems, events. One team scales all of it, from your follower count to your Friday covers.

20 minutes. No pitch deck. Backed by a grow-by-day-90-or-we-work-free guarantee.

  • 0people on one waitlist, built in under 3 months
  • <5 minto sell out an event, tickets gone
  • 4–5xreturn on meal prep ad spend
  • 90 daysto grow your number, or we work free until it does

Brands we have shot for. Restaurants we have packed.

  • Tampa Bay Buccaneers
  • BMW
  • House of Members
  • Naked Farmer
  • Alimento
  • MBird
  • Freedom Boat Club
  • The Regent
  • ReBuilt Meals
  • The Hall on Franklin
  • YSR Prep

01 · The problem

Great food isn't enough.

It is 1am. You are running numbers after a Saturday that should have been packed and wasn't. The food was right. The room was ready. Tampa scrolled right past you.

More followers. More attention. More covers. We scale all of it.

  1. Five vendors, zero accountability

    An ad freelancer, a content kid, a web guy, a promoter. None of them talk to each other. None of them answer for how full you are.

  2. Content with no engine behind it

    Posts go up. Nothing compounds. Followers flat, views flat, reservations flat, and nobody can tell you why.

  3. Invisible where it counts

    Somebody looks for a place like yours tonight, on the feed or on Google, finds your competitor, and books there instead.

  4. Delivery apps eat the margin

    The apps take their cut of every order and keep the customer's contact info. You do the cooking. They own the relationship.

  5. Dead Tuesdays and no-shows

    Staff scheduled, food prepped, and a 7:30 table that never walks in. You have no way to reach the regulars who would have taken it.

Restaurants are either getting fuller or getting emptier, online and at the door. There is no flat.

02 · Full service

We scale literally everything.

01

Content & camera

Photos, video, and shoot days that make your room look the way it feels on its best night. We shot commercials for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

  • Videography
  • Photography
  • Shoot days
02

Viral social

TikTok and Instagram run end to end: strategy, posting, creator collabs, and clips that stack followers and turn them into faces at the door.

  • TikTok
  • Instagram
  • Follower growth
  • Creator collabs
03

Paid demand & search

Ads judged by one metric: what came back. Meal prep campaigns returned 4 to 5 dollars for every 1 in. And when someone searches "dinner near me" tonight, or asks ChatGPT where to eat, you come up.

  • Meta ads
  • Google ads
  • Local SEO
  • AI search
04

Web, AI & front desk

Websites that book, AI chat that answers at 2am, and an AI receptionist that picks up while your staff is slammed on a Friday.

  • Websites
  • AI chat
  • AI receptionist
05

Systems & dashboards

Workflows, automations, and every POS feed piped into one simple view, so you finally see the whole business on one screen.

  • Automation
  • Dashboards
  • POS integration
06

Events & sellouts

We create the night, invite the creators, build the waitlist, and sell the tickets. Sometimes in under 5 minutes. Influencer nights, ticket drops, grand openings.

  • Events
  • Ticketing
  • Influencer nights
  • Meal prep offers
07

Reviews & reputation

Review requests that go out after every visit, a reply to every review, good or bad, and a star rating that climbs instead of keeping you up at night.

  • Google reviews
  • Replies handled
  • Reputation
08

The guest list

Email and text lists you own, not rented from an app. Your WiFi turns walk-ins into contacts, texts fill slow Tuesdays, and reminders cut no-shows.

  • Email
  • SMS
  • WiFi capture

You could rent these skills from five different vendors. Or one team owns the whole machine and answers for the result.

03 · The work

Receipts, not decks.

Packed jazz night at House of Members, saxophonist under amber stage light Flagship case study

House of Members · Downtown Tampa

Zero members to a 13,000 person waitlist. Under 3 months.

House of Members is a private club on Franklin Street. Our founder is a part owner, so this is the one we run with our own money on the line. We built the website, the workflows, the dashboards. We wired every POS into one screen. We shoot all the content and run TikTok and Instagram. Then we launched a jazz night people in Tampa still argue about getting into.

0 waitlist, built in under 3 months

04 · Before and after

Before us. After us.

Same room. Same menu. New machine.

The food was never the problem. The system that fills the room was.

Empty restaurant dining room on a slow night The same dining room packed with guests

Drag it. This is the whole pitch.

05 · The numbers

Run the numbers.

people on the House of Members waitlist
0

from zero, in under 3 months

minutes to sell out an event
<5

House of Members ticket drops

return on meal prep ad spend
4–5x

Alimento lead generation campaigns

days for your number to grow, or we work free
90

we pick the number together on day one

06 · The process

Three steps. No mystery.

Week 1

The teardown

We mystery shop you: search you, call you, book you, order from you. Then we show you exactly where demand leaks out. You keep the teardown whether you hire us or not.

Weeks 2 to 4

The build

Offer, content engine, ads, systems. The machine goes live fast, because a plan that sits in a slide deck fills nothing.

Ongoing

The scale

Weekly optimization, one dashboard you will actually open, and a number we both stare at: how full the room is. Your time commitment is one 30 minute call a week.

07 · The word

What they say.

"You guys literally crushed the website. It fully functions, everything, all the workflows. Made my life so much easier and built something 100 times better than what we had."

Chef YSRYSR Prep, Tampa

"Thang is a genius when it comes to anything."

DrewOwner, web development agency

"I build websites for a living, so I don't say this lightly: the work is cleaner than what most shops ship, and it was live in days, not months."

BreFounder, web design studio

The next quote on this wall could be about your restaurant.

Book a growth call

08 · The offer

Full service means full service.

Content, social, ads, web, AI, systems, events. One team scales everything, from your follower count to your Friday covers: noticed online, packed in person, every night.

The five vendor way

  • Five invoices, five logins, five excuses
  • The ad guy blames the content guy
  • Nobody answers for how full you are
  • You are the project manager at midnight

The Scale or Die way

  • Everything marketing, under one roof, built for hospitality
  • One team owns content, ads, web, AI, systems, and events
  • One invoice, one number to call
  • One dashboard with every POS in it
  • Accountable for all of it: followers up, name everywhere, room full

09 · The call

Book your growth call.

20 minutes on the phone with the team, not a sales rep.

  • We walk your funnel while you watch
  • You get three moves for your slowest night
  • If we are not a fit, we say so in the first 10 minutes

You keep the notes either way. No contract talk on the first call.

Backed by our guarantee: if the number we pick together has not grown by day 90, we work free until it does.

Tell us about your spot. We reply the same day.

Book a 20-minute growth call

House of Members · Downtown Tampa · Flagship

The whole machine, on one club

A private club on Franklin Street. Our founder is a part owner, so this is the proof of what happens when we run everything.

13,000waitlist in under 3 months
<5 minevent sellouts
Visit houseofmembers.com

Alimento · Tampa · alimento813.com

A meal prep department built from scratch

A family owned Tampa restaurant that wanted a second revenue line. We built and scaled the meal prep department, then ran lead generation that returned 4 to 5 dollars for every 1 spent on ads.

4–5xreturn on ad spend
1new revenue line, built and running
Visit alimento813.com

The Regent · Brandon, FL

Web and automations for a major event venue

A 10,000 square foot ballroom that hosts one event at a time, which means every inquiry counts. We rebuilt the web presence and wired the automations so leads get answered while the team runs events.

The Hall on Franklin · Tampa Heights · 2017 to 2020

Everything Tampa's first food hall needed

Website, content, photos and video, the works. The Hall closed in 2020 with the rest of that era, and the work still holds up. We keep the logo on the wall because the room was great and so was the run.

1stfood hall in Tampa

ReBuilt Meals · Tampa Bay

Marketing for a Fast 50 meal prep company

Marketing, content marketing, and Facebook ads for ReBuilt Meals, the Tampa chef prepared meal company that made the Tampa Bay Business Journal's Fast 50 in 2023. Demand work in the exact niche we know best.

30+weekly menu items to keep in demand

Tampa Bay Buccaneers · NFL

Video commercials at the NFL level

We shot video commercials for an NFL franchise. The point is not the logo. The point is that the standard on that set is the standard on every set, including yours.

BMW · Commercial production

A commercial for BMW

We shot a commercial for BMW. Different industry, same discipline: light it right, cut it tight, make people want the thing. That is the exact skill that fills dining rooms, applied to a car.

MBird · Partnership

A commercial, shot together

We shot a video commercial in partnership with the MBird team. When another creative crew wants you on their production, that tells you where the work sits.

Naked Farmer · Restaurant operations

Operations, not just opinions

Our restaurant consultant ran operations for Naked Farmer and helped the farm to table concept grow. That is why our marketing plans survive contact with a real service: we know what Friday at 7pm does to a kitchen.

Freedom Boat Club · Tampa Bay

Content shoots on the water

Freedom Boat Club, founded in 1989, calls itself the world's largest members-only boat club. They call us for content shoots: lifestyle work that sells the feeling of the membership, which is the same job as selling the feeling of a full room.