AI Marketing for Independent Restaurants

Your POS doesn't own your marketing.
We work with any system.

Toast, Square, PAR — they lock you into their marketing tools to keep you paying. HostShift is the only AI content engine that works with any POS. Upload your menu. Get 7 days of posts, ready to publish.

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Early Access

Get early access — free for independent operators

Upload your menu. Get a week of posts. See what AI can do for your restaurant — before you pay a cent.

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Not a tool. A teammate.

Content Creation

Ingests your menu, brand voice, and visual style. Generates weeks of Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok content in minutes. Not templates — real posts that sound like your restaurant.

Always On

Monitors your social channels, reviews, and listings around the clock. Responds to comments, handles DMs, flags urgent reviews for your attention.

Local SEO

Keeps your Google Business Profile fresh. Posts updates, responds to questions, monitors ratings. The stuff that moves you up in local search.

Review Intelligence

Reads every review across Google, Yelp, and TripAdvisor. Responds professionally, flags patterns, turns negative reviews into recovery opportunities.

Email & SMS Nurture

Builds and sends weekly email newsletters, SMS promotions, and re-engagement campaigns. Targets past guests who haven't visited in 30+ days.

Weekly Reports

Every Monday: engagement metrics, follower growth, review sentiment, content performance. Delivered to your inbox before you open for lunch.

Up and running in days,
not months.

01

Connect your accounts

Link your Instagram, Facebook, Google Business, Yelp, and email. Takes 10 minutes. We never store passwords — OAuth only.

02

Train HostShift on your brand

Upload your menu, share your vibe, paste a few examples of content you love. HostShift learns your voice and stays consistent.

03

It starts working

Content drafts appear in your approval queue. You approve or adjust in one click. HostShift publishes, engages, and reports — on schedule.

"I need to approve everything"

You do — but it takes 5 minutes a day. HostShift drafts everything and waits for your sign-off. No content goes out without you seeing it first. You're the boss. It's just a very fast assistant.

"My followers expect a person"

HostShift sounds like your restaurant, not a bot. It knows your menu, your specials, your personality. And it's working while you sleep — most restaurants never respond to DMs at 11pm. Yours will.

"What if it gets something wrong?"

Edge cases get escalated to you. HostShift knows the difference between a routine comment and a PR crisis. It flags the tricky stuff and handles the rest. You step in only when it makes sense.

"I already have a social manager"

Great — keep them for strategy. HostShift handles the 40 hours a week of content drafting, scheduling, review responding, and listing updates that eat up their time. They can focus on the work that actually moves the needle.

"Most POS systems sell you marketing as an upsell.
We sell you marketing as the product."

Independent restaurants deserve better.
HostShift works with your system — and starts free.