A look at how your restaurant would run on What's Good Local — your video business card at the top of your category, and your scannable offer on the beach-conditions page every guest opens.
The full-screen card that headlines your listing at the top of your category on WhatsGoodLocal.com — your video, your offer, and a one-tap booking button, right in front of guests as they decide where to eat. (Example shown: a current Gulf Coast partner.)
Fresh Gulf seafood steps from your room — steamed shrimp, snow-crab boils, and daily beach-bites specials, right where guests are deciding where to eat.
See the Menu 🦐Your custom call-to-action • tracked to every scan & click
Your scannable offer rides on the beach-conditions page every guest opens — they point, tap, and a full-screen QR blooms to book or claim on the spot. Each one is tracked, so every scan is measurable. (Real examples from a current partner.)
Every morning, guests open What's Good Local in their room to check the live beach conditions — flags, surf, water quality — and plan their day before heading out on their vacation weekend.
And it doesn't stay in the room. Guests take What's Good Local with them for real-time rip-current alerts — so it's in their hand when they're out and hungry, deciding where to eat. This week's analytics: the average guest opens the app twice a day, all week long. That's a safety tool they depend on, not a billboard they pass once.
That's your audience: in-market vacationers, deciding right then where to eat and what to do. Not a broad ad buy — a targeted, captive audience of people who came to the coast for exactly what you serve.
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National-average costs to win a new restaurant guest, 2026. Most channels take a cut of every order or can't tell you what worked. This one is a flat rate that reaches guests already here, the moment they're deciding where to eat.
| Channel | What it costs you | Tracked to the $? | Reaches the guest already here, deciding where to eat? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Third-party delivery apps | 15–30% of every order (≈ ⅓ of revenue) | Partial | No |
| Google Ads | $20–$45 per new diner | Partial | No |
| Facebook / Instagram | $25–$52 per new diner | Partial | No |
| Print & coupon mailers | No attribution | No | No |
| Radio & Television | Thousands, unmeasured | No | No |
| What's Good Local · Featured Offer | Flat monthly rate — no per-order cut | Yes — every scan & click | Yes — every morning |
Every guest who opens What's Good Local sees your restaurant, with a scannable offer that turns a browse into a booking.
As the network grows into new markets, your offer activates there too.