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Social Media & Local SEO Case Study: Desi Bar & Grill, Mississauga

An Indian restaurant in one of Canada's most crowded Indian-food markets, with low footfall and almost no online presence.

Results at a glance

  • Account reach158K+258% on the period before
  • Impressions+190%
  • Profile visits+110%
  • Followers+30%

Source: Instagram insights in our results report to Desi Bar & Grill, compared with the period before Fielmente started. Reach counts accounts, not covers or orders.

Overview

  • Brand: Desi Bar & Grill
  • Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
  • Category: North Indian restaurant and bar
  • Service: Social media, Google listing, local SEO, review management

The Challenge

Mississauga, next to Toronto, has dozens of Indian restaurants. Desi Bar & Grill's food was good, but footfall was low and it had almost no online presence: no social pages, no photos on Google, few reviews and none of them answered.

What We Did

  • 1. Social pages from scratch - New profiles and monthly campaigns, planned from market research to reach the Indian community and non-Indian diners.
  • 2. Google listing rebuild - Photos, details and review replies, and the listing checked on Canadian delivery apps.
  • 3. Local SEO - Link building and listing work to rank for Indian food searches nearby.
  • 4. A Punjabi identity - Bollywood and Punjabi music and visual cues in the content and the dining room, to match the North Indian menu.

Results

  • • Account reach up 258%, to about 158,000
  • • Impressions up 190%
  • • Profile visits up 110%
  • • Followers up 30%
  • • The restaurant has since opened a second branch

How We Measured

Figures come from the Instagram insights in our results report to the restaurant, comparing the campaign period with the period before we started. Reach and impressions measure awareness, not covers or revenue; we do not hold the restaurant's sales data.

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