Category: Case Studies

Corporate office lunch catering spread from a South Florida Cuban restaurant, illustrating catering sales growth.

How to Grow Catering Sales: The Playbook Behind 62% Year-Over-Year Growth

Direct answer: Padrino’s Restaurants, a 30-year-old family-run brand with 5 locations in South Florida, grew catering sales 62% year-over-year from March through October and 52% across the full year by treating catering as a full-funnel revenue channel: direct online ordering through Appfront, paid Meta ads and cold outreach to corporate buyers, website visitor identification and […]

Modern restaurant on Brickell Key at dusk with every table set before opening night, illustrating pre-opening reservation demand.

How a New Restaurant Booked $96,000 in Reservations Before Opening Night

Direct answer: A new Miami restaurant booked $96,303 in trackable reservations and 1,155 covers before serving its first guest by running a pre-opening strategy called Founding Access: paid Meta ads captured 1,397 local leads in exchange for early reservation access, then an early-access email converted that list into 381 OpenTable bookings before the public could […]