For restaurants, cafés, bakeries and food trucks

You run the kitchen, the floor and the schedule.
And the marketing, somehow.

MKTDPT fills the slow nights on purpose: research on who eats out near you, plans built around your slow days and big seasons, ads you can launch click-by-click, and a scorecard that shows which promo actually brought people in.

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A Tuesday for AnaNeighborhood café · owner

5:30 amBread in. Coffee on. Prep list taped up.

11:45 amLunch rush. Two cooks out sick.

2:30 pmAnswers a catering email on her phone.

4:00 pmFood delivery tablet keeps beeping.

11:00 pmSnaps a photo of the special for Instagram. Tomorrow’s problem.

Great food shouldn’t be a secret.

The math nobody puts on a flyer

82%of U.S. small businesses have no employees at all. The owner is the whole marketing department.¹

70%of small business owners spend less than five hours a week on marketing. There's no time left.²

$500+a month is where full-service agency work typically starts for small businesses, often $1,500 and up.³

10–20%of your ad spend is a common agency fee for managing ads. The more you spend, the more they earn.⁴

Sound familiar?

Weekends are packed. Tuesdays are a ghost town.

You run a promo when it’s slow, but you can’t tell if it brought anyone in.

The delivery apps take a big cut, and those customers aren’t really yours.

Your Google Maps listing is the first thing people see, and you haven’t touched it in a year.

Catering could be your best money, if anyone knew you did it.

You don’t need a viral moment. You need a steady plan for your slow days.

What you actually get

A strategist, a researcher and a coach. In one app.

Here's what happens between “I should really do some marketing” and leads that show up on purpose.

Onboarding

Tell it about your business. Once.

Answer a few plain questions (or paste in what you already have) and MKTDPT builds your company profile. Then it reads your website and drafts your brand guide: your logo, colors, fonts and the way you sound. From then on, every idea it gives you sounds like your place, not like a template.

Research

The homework agencies bill you for.

This is the part most owners never get to. MKTDPT pulls public data on your area (Census and Data USA: incomes, ages, homeowners, growth) and Pew Research on who uses which apps⁵, then turns it into buyer personas: three to five customer types with nicknames, what they're really buying, what scares them, and where to find them. It also runs a local audit of your website and Google listing against nearby competitors. Every number comes with its source.

Strategy

A full-funnel plan, not a pile of posts.

Ask for ideas and you get three real options at a time: campaigns with flight dates, budgets, ad sets and the ads themselves, each one aimed at a persona. Each comes with why it should work, built on your own results and industry benchmarks with sources. It covers every step: getting noticed, getting compared, getting the call, and getting the regulars who come back every week.

Education

You learn the why, every single time.

MKTDPT doesn't just hand you a plan. It explains where each move fits in the customer journey, what your customer is thinking at that moment, and what should happen next. Season by season you learn to read your own marketing, something a retainer rarely gives you.

Launch

Click-by-click, with nothing left to guess.

Pick where the ads run (Facebook, Instagram, Google, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn) and get step-by-step launch instructions written for someone who has never run an ad: targeting, budget, retargeting audiences, and a tracking link for every ad. Everything goes in paused until you say go. Rather hand it off? Sub in a pro from the MKTDPT Bench.

Results

It gets sharper every time you use it.

Every lead traces back to the exact ad that brought it in. The scorecard tells you what to keep, fix or cut, and every lesson goes back into your brand guide. The more you feed it (leads, results, what worked), the better the next round of ideas gets. Nothing gets lost between meetings. MKTDPT remembers everything.

Plays it could hand Ana

Plays for full tables, not just likes.

Examples of the kind of plans MKTDPT drafts. Yours are built from your own area, season, numbers and customers.

Slow nights · always on

The Tuesday fix

One reason to come on your slowest night (a family deal, a trivia night, a chef’s special) promoted only to people within a short drive, with a code so you can see exactly who came in.

Catering · year round

Feed the office down the street

A simple catering page, ads aimed at local office managers and event planners, and a follow-up for anyone who asked for a menu.

Reviews · always on

Own your Google Maps listing

Fresh photos, real replies to reviews and a table card that turns happy diners into five-star reviews, so you show up when someone nearby searches “lunch near me.”

Your three options

Agency-level thinking. Without the agency bill.

Plenty of agencies do honest work. But many are paid a share of your ad budget, so their paycheck grows when your ad bill does. MKTDPT earns the same either way, so it has no reason to tell you to spend more. When less is the smarter move, it says so.

	Doing it yourself	Typical agency	MKTDPT
Who does the work	You, at night	Their team	You and MKTDPT, together
Market research (Census, Pew, local competitors)	Rarely. No time.	Sometimes, usually extra	Built in, with sources
Brand guide and buyer personas	No	Often a paid project	Built in
Full-funnel plan with dates and budgets	Guesswork	Yes	Yes, three options at a time
Explains why, so you get better	No	Not usually	Every suggestion
Every lead traced to the ad that brought it	No	Depends on the agency	Yes
Paid more when you spend more on ads	No	Often (10–20% of ad spend)⁴	Never
Monthly cost	$0 plus your evenings	$500 to $1,500+ for small businesses³	Free for 2 weeks, then priced for a one-person business

Built by someone who's run the plays

Big-agency playbook. Small-business price.

MKTDPT was built by Joshua Hicks after 13+ years running campaigns at agencies like Edelman, Dentsu Creative and Zeno Group. The research, personas and full-funnel planning that brands pay agencies thousands for are the same tools inside MKTDPT, rebuilt for an owner who has twenty minutes on a Tuesday night.

Questions

Fair questions.

Do I need to know marketing?

No. That's the point. MKTDPT explains every suggestion in plain words, and the launch instructions are click-by-click. You learn as you go.

What happens after the 2 weeks?

We'll tell you the price before your trial ends. There's no card on file, so nothing gets charged by surprise. If MKTDPT isn't earning its keep, just walk away.

Is my customer information safe?

Yes. MKTDPT tracks which ad brought in each lead, not who your customers are. The AI never sees customer names, emails or phone numbers, never approves an ad, and never takes anything live without you.

Do I need a website?

It helps, and MKTDPT will tell you what your site is missing. But you can start without one. Plenty of local businesses run on a Google listing, Facebook and word of mouth.

Is the AI going to replace me?

No. It does the research and the busywork; you make the calls. You can turn AI off entirely, connect your own Claude, or use ours.

What if I'd rather someone just did it?

Sub in a pro. The MKTDPT Bench is a crew of local videographers, designers, web developers and marketers who can shoot, design, fix or run it with you.

Fuller tables. Steadier weeks.

Fill the slow nights on purpose.

Two weeks free. No card. Set up your first company in one sitting.

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Sources.
¹ U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, Frequently Asked Questions About Small Business (2026)
² Fiverr Small Business Month Survey, nearly 6,000 owners in 25 countries (2025)
³ WebFX, Marketing agency cost (2026)
⁴ AgencyAnalytics, PPC management pricing guide
⁵ Pew Research Center, Americans’ Social Media Use (November 2025)
Owner stories on this page are illustrative composites, not real customers.

You run the kitchen, the floor and the schedule.And the marketing, somehow.