Chicago, Illinois
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Services · What we do
Everything starts with the pictures. From there we build whatever your restaurant needs to be seen: a website, a menu, a catalog, an ad account that pays for itself.
01 · Media production
Photography · Videography
We shoot on location in your light, in service or just before it. A session runs two to four hours and yields the full set: dishes, the room, the people who run it, and short films cut for the website and the feed. Files come back sized for everything from a phone screen to a billboard.
Enter the DarkroomWhat you get
Photography · Three kitchens, one light
Videography · Short films
02 · Websites & hosting
Design · Build · Hosting
A five-page site, designed and built by us, at no charge: home, about, a real menu, private events and catering, and contact. Laid out so people find what they came for. What we charge for is keeping it running: managed hosting is $125 a month and includes any updates you need, from a new dish to a new opening time.
What you get
03 · Print & menus
Menus · Table cards · Catalogs · Events
Menus that read well and print well. Table cards for the special, the wine, the brunch. Catalogs and sell sheets for wholesale. Banners and backwalls for the trade show floor. All designed around your photos, so the booth, the menu and the website look like they came from the same hand.
What you get
Catalogs & sell sheets
Trade show
Menus & table cards
04 · SEO & ad campaigns
Google · Meta · Reporting
Paid search, paid social and organic search, measured against bookings and covers rather than clicks. Founder Nick Napoli has run paid ad accounts for sixteen years, at agencies and in-house, and every account gets the same treatment: an audit of where the money is going, a rebuild around what people are actually searching for, and a monthly report you can read in five minutes.
We can do
On record · Real clients, real numbers, checked by the client
An audit found $48K+ going to irrelevant search terms. Rebuilt around intent, the account had its first documented ROI-positive year.
EMPIST →A small brokerage against billion-dollar competitors. A new site and SEO plan put it on page one in fourteen months.
Windsor Life Settlements →A six-week launch countdown lit the fuse. Chicago’s food creators carried it: 1,070,254 organic views in eight months.
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