Video ads for restaurants, cafes, bakeries and food trucks

Why restaurant video ads are hard to keep up with

Most restaurant owners know they should post more video. The problem is time. A good food ad needs a hook, clean text, music, captions and the right size for each app, and it has to be ready before the special is over.

So the posts slip. The new menu goes up as a blurry photo, the holiday preorder deadline gets buried, and the catering side never gets promoted at all. A done-for-you restaurant video ad fixes that: you decide what to promote, and we hand back a finished video you can post the same day.

Restaurant video ad examples you can order

Each of these is built around one job, with a hook line to open on.

Tonight's special

One dish, one night, bold text and music. Made to fill tables fast.

• Hook: “Tonight only: the short rib is back.”
• Best fit: Quick promo ($199)

The dish in action

Send up to 5 short phone clips or photos of a sizzling pan, a pour or a plate going out, and we cut them into a showcase with voiceover and your offer.

• Hook: “Watch this cheese pull. Then come get one.”
• Best fit: Product showcase ($299)

Catering and private events

A friendly presenter explains how booking works, for office lunches, birthdays and team dinners.

• Hook: “Feeding fifty people? We'll bring the kitchen to you.”
• Best fit: Spokesperson ad ($349)

Why we opened

You tell the story behind the family recipe in your own voice, edited from your own phone clips.

• Hook: “My grandmother never wrote this recipe down. So I learned it by watching.”
• Best fit: Founder story ($449)

Meet the food truck

Your truck becomes a 3D animated, family-film style character people remember.

• Hook: “Meet Rosie. Rosie refuses to run late for lunch.”
• Best fit: Animated short ($999)

Want more angles? Our restaurant and bakery video ad ideas guide has a longer list, and holiday video ad ideas covers preorder season.

What makes a food video ad work

• One message. One dish, one deadline or one offer per ad. Save the full menu for your website.
• A hook in the first second. Lead with the craving or the deadline. Our guide to video ad hooks has openers that work.
• Captions on. Plenty of people scroll with sound off, so every video includes captions.
• Vertical first. Reels, Stories, TikTok and Shorts all favor 9:16, which is the size we deliver. Extra sizes are $49.
• A clear next step. Your end card says what to do: order online, book a table or stop by.

How ordering a restaurant video ad works

1. Pick a video. Start from $99 for a Text ad. Not sure which? See which video ad is right for you.
2. Send what you have. Type a few lines about the dish or offer, record a voice note, or upload photos, clips and your logo.
3. Get your video. Ads and reels arrive in 3 business days, animated films in 7. Rush is +50%.
4. Post it anywhere. One revision is included, and you can run it on any channel for as long as you like.

Ready? Order your restaurant video ad in a few minutes.

DIY restaurant video ads vs a flat price

Doing it yourself usually means a video generator app, a voice app, an editing app, a stock music library and a caption app. Published plans for each kind of tool commonly run from about $6 to $40 a month. One example stack of five monthly plans we priced in October 2026 came to about $116 a month, or about $1,392 a year, before extra credits. Then add the late nights learning it all after close. Our breakdown of what DIY video ad tools really cost adds up the time too.

With a flat price, one Quick promo is $199 and one Product showcase is $299, with voiceover, music, captions and one revision included. No subscriptions to cancel. Compare every option on the video ad pricing page, or start with the Quick promo video for your next special.