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Social Media Management for
Restaurants

With short vertical videos,we get you seen, then chosenand run all of it for you.

  • More saves, more branded search, longer viewing
  • Strategy to reporting, one-stop management
  • Strong at sharing the experience
  • POV video of cleaning a guest room at Shimoda View Hotel

    Shimoda, Shizuoka

    Hotels & ryokan

    Shimoda View Hotel

    1.99M views

  • POV video of a stylist coloring hair at a Shibuya salon

    Shibuya, Tokyo

    Hair salon

    A hair salon in Shibuya

    2.3M views

  • POV video of a food truck selling braised-pork burgers at an event

    Japan National Stadium, Tokyo

    Food truck

    Iwasaki Honpo (braised-pork burgers)

    1.51M views

  • POV video of making toppings in a pudding kitchen
    Sweets maker

    Tokyo Tenryu

    1.0M views

  • POV video of a coin ring workshop

    Asakusa, Tokyo

    Craft workshop

    RAGTIME COIN FACTORY

    790K views

  • Video of an acai bowl shop owner presenting the menu

    Kawaramachi, Kyoto

    Café

    Sugary, an acai bowl shop

    4.6M views

  • POV video of a J.League home match, filmed through the eyes of the club's media officer
    Football club

    Reilac Shiga FC

  • POV video of cutting an exhaust and fitting a variable valve in a repair shop
    Auto repair

    Doggies outfit customs (Dufflyer LLC)

    250K views

  • POV video of a glamping site staff member checking guests in

    Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki

    Glamping

    Izura Hot Spring

    906K views

View counts are from TikTok as of October 2026

We focus on the experience of enjoying the food and the space in your restaurant, and on the process from prep to a finished plate. We use this to build brand recall, drive sales and support hiring.

Results

  • Avg. save rate

    3.8×

  • Avg. watch time

    5×

  • Avg. branded searches

    +68%

Choosing where to eat starts on social media now

52.2%

Younger diners go not to portals but to Instagram

Instagram is where Gen Z most often look for somewhere to eat. TikTok comes in at 15.3% and restaurant portals third at 9.8%

StorePro, How Gen Z Finds Restaurants, 2025 (n=1,012), independently checked

80.8%

Where they meet them is social and video

Share who come across restaurants they are interested in on social and video platforms. Instagram 67.5%, YouTube 48.1%, TikTok 46.1%

Fast Marketing, How Gen Z Finds Restaurants, January 2025 (Gen Z who research on social, n=360)

79.1%

Eight restaurants in ten use Instagram

The platform restaurants most use on social. Facebook 47.1%, X 26.2%, LINE official accounts 18.1%

Synchro Food, Survey on Social Media Use by Restaurants, May 2024 (restaurants, n=393)

79.6%

And yet what they post is announcements

The most common thing restaurants post on social: opening days and hours. New menu announcements follow at 72.9%

Synchro Food, Survey on Social Media Use by Restaurants, May 2024 (restaurants, n=393)

48.3%

Only half of them see any effect

Share of restaurants who feel Instagram is doing something for footfall and awareness. Opening an account and getting a result are two different things

Synchro Food, Survey on Social Media Use by Restaurants, May 2024 (restaurants, n=393)
  • POV video of cleaning a guest room at Shimoda View Hotel

    Shimoda, Shizuoka

    Hotels & ryokan

    Shimoda View Hotel

    1.99M views

  • POV video of a stylist coloring hair at a Shibuya salon

    Shibuya, Tokyo

    Hair salon

    A hair salon in Shibuya

    2.3M views

  • POV video of a food truck selling braised-pork burgers at an event

    Japan National Stadium, Tokyo

    Food truck

    Iwasaki Honpo (braised-pork burgers)

    1.51M views

  • POV video of making toppings in a pudding kitchen
    Sweets maker

    Tokyo Tenryu

    1.0M views

  • POV video of a coin ring workshop

    Asakusa, Tokyo

    Craft workshop

    RAGTIME COIN FACTORY

    790K views

  • Video of an acai bowl shop owner presenting the menu

    Kawaramachi, Kyoto

    Café

    Sugary, an acai bowl shop

    4.6M views

  • POV video of a J.League home match, filmed through the eyes of the club's media officer
    Football club

    Reilac Shiga FC

  • Ad video for a fan-cooled vest
    Ad video

    Landmark Co., Ltd.

  • POV video walking through the night-time art at a hot spring glamping site

    Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki

    Glamping

    Izura Hot Spring

4 benefits of social media for restaurants

  1. 01

    Reach people beyond your regulars

    Vertical videos flow to people who don't know you through recommendation feeds, so you meet people looking for somewhere to eat nearby.

  2. 02

    Show how busy the kitchen is before people join

    Videos from the staff's point of view close the gap people find after joining, before they apply.

  3. 03

    Turn saves into visits

    With a map and a booking link ready on your profile, people who pick a day to come can go straight on to book.

  4. 04

    Keep posting through busy months

    Hand off everything from the filming on, and updates continue while you focus on prep and service.

Four reasons restaurants choose TripClear for social media

  1. 3.8×

    More saves, more branded search, longer viewing

    We film the cooking up close and the view from the seat in POV, keeping the sizzle of the griddle and the charcoal. POV Studio

  2. Fully handled

    One-stop management

    We work back from the days and hours you want to fill, and limit promotional posts to 10%.

  3. Japan's first

    A professional POV team

    Filming is done by an Insta360-certified team, batch-shooting during prep and quiet hours. POV Studio

  4. 10M+views/month

    An organic track record that speaks for itself

    For restaurants too, we judge each post by its first 12 to 48 hours and extend the ideas that take off to other posts.

Creative that moves people

Now that social media has become the main battleground for business, what it takes is strategy and memorable content, together. Delivering both is what TripClear does best.

By focusing on the experience people get through a product or service, and on the process of how things are actually made, we turn that content into brand recall, sales, and hiring.

  • Video save rate

    3.8×

    Average save rate versus standard video

  • Branded search growth

    +68%

    Growth in brand-name searches driven by POV video

  • Lower ad CPA

    -42%

    Measured CPA reduction versus existing social ads

Video cases

See all
  • POV video of a food truck selling braised-pork burgers at an event

    Japan National Stadium, Tokyo

    Food truck

    Iwasaki Honpo (braised-pork burgers)

    1.51M views

  • Video of an acai bowl shop owner presenting the menu

    Kawaramachi, Kyoto

    Café

    Sugary, an acai bowl shop

    4.6M views

  • POV video of cleaning a guest room at Shimoda View Hotel

    Shimoda, Shizuoka

    Hotels & ryokan

    Shimoda View Hotel

    1.99M views

  • POV video of a stylist coloring hair at a Shibuya salon

    Shibuya, Tokyo

    Hair salon

    A hair salon in Shibuya

    2.3M views

  • POV video of making toppings in a pudding kitchen
    Sweets maker

    Tokyo Tenryu

    1.0M views

  • POV video of a coin ring workshop

    Asakusa, Tokyo

    Craft workshop

    RAGTIME COIN FACTORY

    790K views

  • POV video of a J.League home match, filmed through the eyes of the club's media officer
    Football club

    Reilac Shiga FC

  • POV video of cutting an exhaust and fitting a variable valve in a repair shop
    Auto repair

    Doggies outfit customs (Dufflyer LLC)

    250K views

  • POV video of a glamping site staff member checking guests in

    Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki

    Glamping

    Izura Hot Spring

    906K views

View counts are from TikTok as of October 2026

See our results →

Process

From account design through batch filming to measuring visits: how it actually runs at a restaurant

From the first conversation about where you stand through posting and improvement, supported without a break

  1. 1Inquiry and quote

    We learn where your account stands and what you want from it, then quote based on shooting frequency and content plans.

  2. 2Account strategy

    It starts with which days and which hours you want filled.

  3. 3Concept and script

    We settle the scenes worth watching, outside the announcements, first.

  4. 4Filming (batch shoots)

    Several videos filmed in one go, without getting in the way of service.

  5. 5Editing and review

    The sound stays, at a pace people will watch.

  6. 6Posting and analysis

    We identify what grew and reconcile it with the visit numbers.

The platform mix for restaurants, and what we watch on each

TikTok Showing the cooking and the room in first person

What we watchViews, average watch time, taps through

Instagram Reels Winning discovery and saves inside the catchment

What we watchSaves, share of reach from non-followers

Instagramprofile and Stories The layer where people check the menu and the seats

What we watchProfile visits, link clicks

YouTube Shorts Being there when someone searches the restaurant name

What we watchViews, clicks on external links

Google Maps and the booking path Photos and trading information in order, ready to take the visit

What we watchDirections requests, bookings

Your format, location and number of sites change the order, so treat the set-up as an example.

Price

Pricing

Social media management / POV video production

JPY 300,000/month and up

Pricing moves with the number of videos and the ideas behind them

  • Full account management
  • Secondary usage rights
  • Paid media recommendations
  • No equipment cost (we lend the gear as an official Insta360 partner)

We'll lay out the approach and cost for your business when we talk

Consultations and quotes are freeRequest a quote

Results

Managed social media results and examples in restaurants

The social media account of Sugary, an açaí bowl shop

Restaurant / SNS & POV

Sugary, an acai bowl shop

TikTok and Instagram launched with the shop's opening. The account was built around a story rather than the product, a ramen shop owner taking on an açaí bowl shop, and right after opening we prioritised reaching the shop's catchment.

Managed for 1 year 5 months 116 posts (6-7 a month) TikTok / Instagram

6.3m views in the best month
17,000 total followers, 370 part-time applications

Read the full case study
POV video from Tokyo Tenryu's pudding workshop

Pudding / SNS & POV

Tokyo Tenryu

Managed accounts showing the back of a pudding workshop in POV. One video passed a million views on its own.

4 posts Instagram

Over 2m views a month from 4 posts
2,300 new followers, 1,424 saves

POV video from a braised-pork burger kitchen car

Kitchen Car / SNS & POV

Iwasaki Honpo (braised-pork burger food truck)

A day in the life of a food truck touring events across Japan, in first person, with the heat of the venue and the sound of cooking in the lead.

Measured over 1 week (February 2026) TikTok / Instagram

460,000 views on TikTok in a week
370,000 on Instagram (weekly figures, February 2026)

FAQ

Questions we are often asked by restaurants

We can't spare anyone to film during service. Can this still work?

You don't need to spare anyone. Filming completes in one or two batch shoots a month during prep or the quiet hours, and our crew comes to you. The kitchen hygiene procedures and what may be filmed get agreed with the manager before the first shoot.

How is pricing decided?

Social media management and POV video production come as a single plan, from JPY 300,000 a month. Pricing moves with the number of videos and the ideas behind them, so we quote individually once we know how often you want to film and what the concepts are. Secondary use is allowed, and recommendations for linking with ads are included. There is no charge for filming equipment (as an official Insta360 partner, we lend it). If ads are run, media spend is charged separately at cost.

Can we hire you for Instagram management or TikTok management?

Our SNS account management is built around Instagram management and TikTok management. We handle the whole package, from concept and profile planning through ideas, filming and editing for Reels and vertical videos, to posting and reporting.

Which company runs this service?

TripClear Inc., based in Shinsen-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo. Our core is social media management and vertical short-form video production, and we support restaurants. For the company profile, see Company.

Our staff don't want to appear. Does it work without faces?

It does. Leaning on POV (first-person) ideas built around the hands, the line of sight and the sound of cooking is the reliable route. Where people do appear, we take consent in writing and agree up front what happens to posts if they leave. There is a fuller explanation on POV video for restaurants.

Should we drop Tabelog and Hot Pepper?

Honestly, we won't propose dropping them. The restaurant portals stay as a channel, while we grow commission-free visits on the social and maps side. The judgement is cost per booking.

We have several sites. Should the accounts be split by site?

Sites whose catchments don't overlap work as one brand account; sites in separate catchments, like different entertainment districts, are better split. We film cross-site material first and swap only the site name and address.

Even if views grow, won't visits stay flat?

We don't run it chasing views. The first thing we put in order is the path from the profile to maps, bookings and applications. After that we watch saves, directions requests, bookings and the number of visits where someone saw the video, monthly.

We're worried about a backlash or a staff prank going viral.

Before anything runs we agree the filming rules, the staff posting guidelines and the pre-publication check, and put them in the contract. What isn't filmed, and who reviews before publishing. That belongs at the start.

Do you have case studies or a track record with restaurants?

Yes. The results section on this page introduces our work with restaurants. Our track record across other industries is collected in Works.

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