Offer flash videos
A short vertical video built around one deal, with the price big and early. Free to make, and the clearest format for a limited-time offer.
Servestack Studio · Free + credits
Restaurant ad maker
The creative for your next restaurant ad, made from your own food and your real offer.
$49/month600 credits includedCancel anytime
A restaurant ad gets about a second to earn attention and a few more to make its offer. When one falls flat, the budget is rarely the only problem. Often the video is a slideshow of stock food, the deal is buried at the end, and nothing in it looks like the place you'd actually walk into.
Studio makes the ad creative from your real dishes and your real prices. Offer flash puts a deal front and center. Ingredient build shows off what goes into a signature dish. AI video with the TV Spot director preset gives one dish a commercial-style camera move. Lettered posters set your own headline around your food for still ads. The examples here were made for Boston Pizza in Norwell and Sunnyside Cafe in Randolph.
To be clear about what it does: Studio makes the ad, not the ad campaign. It doesn't buy ads, set budgets or pick audiences. You post the finished video to Instagram, Facebook or TikTok from Studio, and if you want to put money behind it, you do that in the platform's own ad tools.
Real examples
Made with the ad maker
Each one was made in Studio for a real Servestack restaurant, from its own photos and menu.
Shown with permission: Sunnyside Cafe (Randolph, MA) and Boston Pizza (Norwell, MA).
How it works
How to use the ad maker
Pick the dish and the offer
Choose the dish you want to sell and the deal, if there is one. Names and prices come from your menu, so the ad matches what guests will pay.
Choose an ad format
Offer flash for a deal, ingredient build for a signature dish, an AI video with the TV Spot preset, or a lettered poster with your own headline.
Post it, then boost it if you like
Post to Instagram, Facebook or TikTok now or on a schedule. To run it as a paid ad, use that platform's own ad tools.
What you can make
Every format, from one dish
Ingredient build videos
A video that shows off what goes into a signature dish, for when the dish itself is the pitch. No credits.
AI commercial shots
An AI video of one real dish using the TV Spot director preset, for the polished opening shot of a promo. Uses credits.
Lettered ad posters
Your headline lettered around your dish photo, for still ads in the feed or a printed promo. Uses credits.
Order-online promos
A short video that points people to order online, for ads meant to send someone straight to your menu.
Why Studio
What makes it different
Real food in every frame
Someone who taps an ad should get the dish they saw. Every ad starts from your own photo, and AI never changes what's on the plate.
The offer comes from your menu
Prices are pulled from your menu, so the ad can't advertise a price your register has never heard of.
Creative only, spend is your call
Studio never touches an ad budget. It makes the video or poster. Whether you post it, boost it or run it as an ad is up to you.
Free + credits
Offer flash, ingredient build and order-online videos use no credits. AI video and lettered posters use credits from the 600 included each month.
What makes a restaurant video ad work
- Show the food in the first second. No logo intro, no slow fade from black.
- One offer per ad. "Two slices and a soda at lunch" beats a list of five deals.
- Put the price on screen. It's the detail people most want and the one many ads leave out.
- Keep it short. For one dish or one offer, a few seconds of video is plenty.
- End on the next step: order online, come in tonight, call for pickup.
Restaurant advertising ideas that fit these formats
- A weekday lunch deal as an offer flash, posted before 11.
- Your signature dish as an ingredient build, to show what makes it different.
- A new menu item as an AI TV Spot clip, followed a day later by a plain price card.
- A seasonal headline, like a holiday catering line, lettered around a real tray or platter.
- An order-online video on Friday afternoon, for everyone deciding not to cook.
Posting vs. paying
Every ad here can simply be posted. Plenty of restaurants never pay to promote anything, and a clear offer flash on an account with regulars can do the job on its own.
If you do want to pay for reach, make the creative first and run it as a regular post. The ones that get comments, shares and saves are the ones worth boosting. Studio makes the video; Meta's and TikTok's ad tools handle the targeting and the spend.
Templates
Templates in the ad maker
FAQsFrequently asked
Frequently asked
questions
Does Studio run my restaurant's ads?
No. Studio makes the ad creative, the videos and posters, and posts them to your accounts. Paid campaigns, budgets and targeting are set up in each platform's own ad tools.
What kinds of restaurant video ads can I make?
Offer flash videos for deals, ingredient build videos for signature dishes, order-online promos, and AI videos with the TV Spot preset. You can also make lettered posters for still ads.
Which ad formats are free?
Offer flash, ingredient build and order-online videos use no credits. AI video and lettered posters use credits, and the $49 plan includes 600 every month.
Can I use my own offer and price?
Yes. Prices come from your menu, and you can edit the words on any ad before it goes out.
Where can I post the ads?
Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Google Business Profile. Post right away or schedule ahead, and download any ad if you need the file.
Will the food in the ad be real?
Yes. Every ad uses your own photos. AI can move the camera or set the scene, but it never invents or swaps the dish.
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