Building brands
worth spending time with

Expert, social-first communications for food, drink + hospitality

We keep tabs on the internet, the city, and your industry so your brand makes it out of the feed and into people’s plans

Most clients come for social
organic + paid
strategy
content
account management
community management
analytics + reporting

We also take care of
influencer campaigns
brand partnerships
events + experiential activations
merch development
email marketing
graphic design
digital paid ads + media

The rest is on the house
good taste
better execution
proven industry expertise
less back-and-forth
fast reads on messy asks
an extension of your team
a well-stocked contacts list
premium work, no agency ego

Here’s How we can help:

Let's Talk

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We translate what people like about your brand in real life into a feed they recognize before they walk through the door, book a table, or pick you off the shelf.
From deciding what gets made to managing what happens once it’s live, we run social from end to end.
Monthly retainers start at $1k
When your “can you…” ask spills past social, we’re quick to understand the brand, spot what belongs, and know who to call to make it happen.
No retainer required. Bring us in for audits and vibe checks, brand development projects, product launches, and other one-off projects.
Custom pricing

THE COMPANY WE KEEP

Overhead desk flat lay with laptop, phone, AirPods, notebooks and colour swatches, behind-the-scenes of a communications agency for hospitality businesses

Six colourful smiley face stickers arranged on the back of a black smartphone

Client Case Studies

Names we’ve helped build

Organic + Paid
Strategy
Content
Account Management
Community Management
Influencer Campaigns
Brand Partnerships
Events + Experiential Activation
Email Marketing
Graphic Design

Pennies

Toronto Bar + restaurant

Diner tray with snack packaging, coffee cups and creamer cups featuring hot coffee price stickers, retail signage content for a Toronto bar

Pennies has been with Banquette since opening day—back when there was one bar and zero followers. Since then, we’ve grown its audience to 20K+, helped open location number two, and kept Pennies recognizable online and IRL with printed assets, merch, and programming development as it went from neighbourhood spot to one of Toronto’s best-known casual dining brands.

Two hands holding halves of a bitten smash burger slider against a bright yellow background

Wednesdays hot dogs and tater tots all-you-can-eat steamies table talker sign for $17.99, promotional signage for a Toronto bar

Hand pouring a can of Barbet soda into a glass on a bar

two men laughing and drinking beer at Pennies Toronto bar

marquee sign on a green tile wall reading free popcorn

Cocktail in a coupe glass balanced on a red Stiga ping pong paddle held by a hand with manicured nails, nightlife content for a Toronto social club

Orange branded graphic for Spin ping pong club featuring an embedded photo, social media creative for a Toronto social club

Spin Ping Pong branded hoodie laid out beside orange ping pong balls and a net on a blue table, merch graphic for a Toronto social club

Hand holding a Spin ping pong paddle and beer next to a basket of orange ping pong balls at a Toronto social club

SPIN Global

Intl ping pong social club

Organic + Paid
Strategy
Content
Account Management
Influencer Campaigns
Brand Partnerships
Email Marketing

A refreshed identity is one thing. Making it hold up across seven cities is another. SPIN brought Banquette in to take the brand beyond the deck. Today, we lead social and content across all seven U.S. locations, plus paid campaigns, email, and partnerships. It all adds up to a full marketing setup that keeps SPIN recognizably SPIN from city to city.

Organic + Paid
Strategy
Content
Account Management
Community Management
Influencer Campaigns
Brand Partnerships
Events + Experiential Activation
Email Marketing
Graphic Design

Love Good

CDN Protein bars

Love Good came to Banquette with new owners, new positioning, and a protein bar that needed more than a new wrapper to get noticed again. We led the reintroduction across social, and help with email, partnerships, and in-person activations to bring its bars off the shelf and into more carts.

Three Love Good Protein bar flavours on a blue background with a customer testimonial quote from Donna calling them the best low carb protein bars

Hand holding box of love good protein bars outside of Costco

Overhead shot of two hands passing metal trays of fries, wings and dipping sauces in a warmly lit bar, communications content for a Toronto hospitality business

Tiered seafood tower with crab legs, shrimp and oysters on ice with hot sauce and lemon, plus an illustrated red crab graphic overlay, hospitality content for a Toronto restaurant

Paris Paris

Toronto Wine Bar

Organic + Paid
Strategy
Content
Account Management
Community Management

Paris Paris already had the wine, the room, and the regulars. Banquette came in to reinvigorate its social presence by better capturing the space's personality and celebrating the community the brand had built—while keeping Paris Paris top of mind in between visits.

Barbet

CDN Non-alc beverage

Strategy
Content
Account Management
Email Marketing
Graphic Design

Barbet was fresh to the market and had enough content to fill their feed, but Banquette gave them the strategy for it to work. We turned their library into a social plan, then built out their systems, templates, and email marketing so the brand could continue to connect.

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The Banquette POV

On Record

### On Record
At a minimum, social media keeps a brand current. Getting people to recognize the name, walk through the door, or pick it off the shelf takes knowing what belongs in the feed and what should stay trapped in someone else’s trending audio.
Banquette has been making those calls since 2017 by leading with strategy, following it up with the cool factor, and never forgetting how important community is to becoming (and staying) relevant.
For Context

### For Context
Banquette was built around hospitality. Before founding it, Chloe ran the marketing department of a hospitality group, feeding her obsession with restaurants that make up the fabric of a city, and what turns one good night into a place people return to.
Even as Banquette has grown into a team, that instinct still runs through our work: getting brands off the screen and into people’s plans, carts, and regular rotations while making sure our clients feel like they’re sitting at the best seat in the house.
Between Us

### Between Us
Banquette gets close enough to your business to understand the half-formed questions, make fast calls, and know when social is only the start.
Our systems are tested, but how we work with your team stays flexible. Hand us the keys and let us run, or keep us at the table and make the calls together. Either way, we bring strong industry connections, the level of support your team needs, and very little appetite for back-and-forth agency bullshit.

Building brands worth spending time with