Search
A potential guest searches with intent.
Founder-led · Local SEO for restaurants
Get found.
Get booked.
Moolah Media helps restaurants grow through Google Search, Google Maps and local discovery — turning more searches into bookings.
No obligation. A practical review of your restaurant’s search visibility.
Based in Ireland — working remotely with restaurants worldwide.
- Local search
- Google Maps visibility
- Reviews
- Booking intent
+33%
Cover growth, year on year
Chef-led landmark venue, Aug 2024 – Mar 2025, while the 75-venue benchmark fell 9%
Source · OpenTable
42pt
Gap versus market benchmark
Percentage-point spread across the same period
Source · OpenTable
#7
Maps Pack position
"best restaurants in dublin city centre"
Source · Bright Local · Local Finder
33 → 47
Domain Authority built
Premium Dublin 2 steakhouse, over 15 months
Source · Moz Domain Authority
Client names withheld under confidentiality. Figures recorded from each venue's own third-party platform data.
Built specifically for restaurants and hospitality groups.
- Google Search
- Google Maps
- Google Business Profile
- Reviews & bookings
Specialist search growth for ambitious restaurants and hospitality groups.
Founder-led · Based in Ireland, working worldwideVisibility is not the goal. Bookings are.
The opportunity
Your next guest is already searching.
Every day, people look for somewhere to eat by location, cuisine, occasion and intent — a table for two tonight, a private room for twelve, Sunday lunch nearby.
The question is not whether guests are searching. The question is whether your restaurant appears prominently when they do, and whether what they see is convincing enough to book.
- best restaurant near me
- private dining Dublin
- romantic restaurant near me
- Sunday lunch nearby
- steak restaurant open now
- restaurant for group dinner Dublin
Discover
Your restaurant appears across Search, Maps and restaurant platforms.
Choose
Reviews, visibility and relevance build confidence.
Book
The guest reserves a table.
The Moolah system
From local search to a table booked.
A connected system that makes restaurants discoverable, credible and measurable.
01
Be discovered
02
Build local authority
03
Convert searches into bookings
04
Measure the commercial result
Core capabilities
Four outcomes. One connected system.
The technical work sits underneath. The commercial outcome stays on top.
Get discovered
Search + Maps visibility, so the restaurant appears when guests search by cuisine, occasion or location.
Build authority
Local trust + consistency across the directories, profiles and platforms search engines rely on.
Convert demand
Website + restaurant discovery journey, from the first search result to a reserved table.
Measure growth
Visibility + commercial performance, with measured and correlated figures clearly separated.
Restaurant results
The numbers should tell the story.
We measure search performance against the commercial metrics restaurants actually care about.
Chef-led landmark restaurant · name withheld
When the local market fell, this restaurant grew covers.
+33%
Covers, year on year
Active build phase, Aug 2024 – Mar 2025
Source · OpenTable
−9%
Market, same period
75-venue South City Centre benchmark
Source · OpenTable
Across the same window in which the local search foundation was built, the venue recorded cover growth while the benchmark cohort of competing venues contracted. The two datasets are measured independently by OpenTable.
View Case StudyChef-led landmark restaurant · name withheld
Entering an occupied market and ranking ahead of it.
#7
Maps Pack position
"best restaurants in dublin city centre"
Source · Bright Local · Local Finder
13
Positions ahead of nearest rival
Same term, same tracking window
Source · Bright Local · Local Finder
On the tracked discovery terms, the venue moved from absent to holding positions ahead of the nearest comparable independent. Competitor positions are recorded from the same third-party tracker, not from internal reporting.
View Case StudyPremium steakhouse group · name withheld
Separating what search contributed from what the restaurant earned.
€184,940
Directly traced booking revenue
3,699 network covers × €50 average spend
Source · OpenTable
20pt
Gap versus local market
Venue +7% covers, Dublin 2 market −13%
Source · OpenTable
A three-tier model states what is platform-confirmed, what is reasonably inferred, and what is explicitly not claimed. Google visibility data and OpenTable booking data are presented as separate, parallel evidence.
View Case StudyWho this is for
Selective by design.
This work makes a good restaurant easier to find. It cannot make a poor one worth booking — so the fit matters more than the budget.
Right fit
An established restaurant in a competitive local market
Strong food and service already in place, with the capacity to take the covers that better visibility brings.
Right fit
Covers slipping against the wider market
The clearest before-and-after picture, and usually the fastest place to prove the work is paying for itself.
Right fit
A new opening with no search footprint
Far easier to build the foundations correctly from day one than to repair years of neglect later.
Not a fit
Looking for results within 30 days
Local search compounds over six to twelve months. Anyone promising instant rankings is selling something else.
How it works
A disciplined system. Explained in restaurant language.
Audit
Understand how guests currently find the restaurant and where visibility is being lost.
Build
Strengthen the search, maps, profile and website foundations that support discovery.
Grow
Expand visibility across the searches and places most likely to influence a booking.
Measure
Connect the work back to meaningful movements in discovery, enquiries, bookings and covers.
Pricing
The right level of search growth for the restaurant in front of us.
Three monthly packages, separated by depth of work rather than feature count. Each covers one restaurant location, its primary Google Business Profile and the relevant pages of one existing website.
Local
From€445/month per location
Consistent management of the foundations of restaurant search visibility.
- Google Business Profile accuracy and maintenance
- Listing consistency and core local tracking
- Essential improvements to existing pages
Growth
RecommendedFrom€595/month per location
Active work to improve your search visibility and competitive position.
- Deeper Maps, technical SEO and structured data
- Authority development and competitor analysis
- Detailed Search Console, GA4 and profile analysis
Growth+
From€795/month per location
Growth, with a consistent monthly content programme behind it.
- 2 Google Business Profile posts per month
- 2 SEO website content deliverables per month
- Everything in Growth underneath
Starting prices cover the scope outlined in each package. Additional locations or work beyond that scope are quoted separately. We confirm your monthly fee and deliverables before work begins.
Prices exclude VAT where applicable.
Compare All PackagesRestaurant specialist
One connected discovery ecosystem.
Guests do not experience channels. They move between search results, maps, profiles, reviews, platforms and your own website before they decide.
Your
restaurant
Google SearchGoogle MapsOpenTableReviewsWebsiteTripAdvisorrestaurant
Built from inside hospitality
Search strategy with restaurant experience behind it.
Moolah combines restaurant operations experience with specialist local SEO — so performance is measured against what matters to the business, not just what appears in an SEO dashboard.
The work stays hands-on: strategy, analysis and optimisation remain close to the person accountable for the result.
About MoolahInsights
Restaurant search, explained without the SEO fog.
Practical guidance on Google Search, Maps, Business Profiles, reviews and measurement — written for operators.
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