Meta Ads for Dream Grill Restaurant
A local awareness campaign that introduced a brand-new restaurant to the people living around it.
About this project
Dream Grill is a new restaurant that had just opened and needed local people to find out about it. A restaurant lives on nearby customers, so the first job was simple: make sure the people in the area knew it existed. The screenshot above is the result from Meta Ads Manager. Client page: Facebook page.
The goal
A new restaurant has no reviews, no regulars and no word of mouth yet. The goal was to build local awareness fast, so more people in the surrounding area could hear about Dream Grill and start thinking of it when deciding where to eat.
What I did
- Awareness campaign: Ran a Meta Ads awareness campaign built to reach as many new people as possible at the lowest cost.
- Local targeting: Targeted the restaurant’s local area, so the budget reached people who can actually walk in or order, not a wide audience that never will.
- Audience insight: Read the age and gender breakdown to understand who the restaurant was reaching and to guide the next campaigns.
- Lean budget: Kept spend low while the brand was new, so the restaurant could build visibility without a big upfront cost.
Results
- 63,616 people reached
- $0.07 cost per 1,000 people reached
- $4.60 total amount spent (Sep 30 to Oct 20, 2026)
- Men made up 70% of the reach (44,537 people) and women made up 30% (19,282 people)
- The 25-34 age group was reached the most, followed by 18-24 and 35-44
For less than five dollars, the restaurant went from unknown to being seen by tens of thousands of people in its local area.
What comes next
Awareness is the first step. Now that people know the restaurant, the next phase is an engagement campaign to build a community around the brand, followed by a sales campaign to turn that attention into orders and table bookings.
Service delivered
This project sits under my Meta Ads service. I build campaigns that reach new people, bring back interested visitors and turn them into leads or sales. Every campaign starts with a clear goal and tracking, and is improved with real data.
How I approach these projects
- Plan: Define your goal, offer, audience and budget before spending anything.
- Set up: Configure your account, pixel and tracking so results are measured.
- Launch: Publish tested creatives and audiences in a clean campaign structure.
- Optimize: Cut what is not working and put more budget behind what is.
- Scale: Grow spend carefully as results stay healthy, and report every month.
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