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The problem

Third-party marketplaces are the biggest threat to your margins.

The marketplace apps have a deep audience of loyal users — but they take up to 30% of every order, hold your customer data hostage, and use it to market your competitors. Eighty percent of guests still blame the restaurant when something goes wrong, even though the restaurant has no control over the experience.

Up to 30% per order

Already-thin restaurant margins get sliced again before food ever leaves the kitchen.

You don't own the diner

Names, emails, phone numbers — held by the marketplace, used to market other restaurants on the same platform.

Blame without control

Guests still hold the restaurant accountable for delivery problems caused by drivers you never hired.

Our approach

A platform we trust, plus the AI work nobody else is doing for restaurants.

We've partnered with Owner.com — the restaurant growth platform we trust most for independent operators. They've built the all-in-one system that gets you off the marketplaces and onto direct orders. We deploy it, and then we build the custom AI agents on top that no SaaS vendor will build for one restaurant: phone receptionists that take catering inquiries 24/7, intake assistants that pre-qualify private-event leads, document drafters that handle vendor contracts. The platform is what keeps you in business. The AI is what makes you faster than the next operator on your block.

Restaurant growth platform

Deployed and configured by us, with your menu, your branding, your tone of voice. Includes the six pillars below.

  • SEO-optimized website that ranks for your cuisine and neighborhood
  • Frictionless direct online ordering, A/B-tested for conversion
  • Zero-commission delivery via flat-fee third-party drivers
  • Automated email, SMS, and push campaigns
  • Branded mobile app with built-in loyalty and rewards
  • Real-time reporting on what's driving sales

Custom AI on top

The work that makes your operation faster than the restaurant down the street. We build these as fixed-scope engagements, typically 4-8 weeks.

  • Phone receptionist agent — takes reservations, answers FAQs, captures catering inquiries 24/7
  • Catering and private-event intake assistant — pre-qualifies leads before they hit your inbox
  • Vendor and lease document drafter — turns boilerplate into one-click outputs
  • Review-response generator — drafts thoughtful replies to Google and Yelp reviews in your voice
  • Inventory and waste pattern analysis — finds the items that should be 86'd before they hit the trash
Cuisines that travel well

Some menus are built for direct delivery. Others aren't.

The platform works best for restaurants whose menus are designed to leave the building intact. These are the cuisines we see succeed most consistently:

🍕Pizza
🌮Mexican
🍔Burgers & Delis
🍝Italian
🥡Chinese
🍣Japanese
🍜Thai
🍛Indian
🍖BBQ
🥙Mediterranean
🍱Korean
🏈American
The platform — six pillars

An entire system, deployed in days.

Each piece is designed to grow first-party orders. Together, they replace the marketplace stack with infrastructure you actually own.

Restaurant Website

SEO-engineered to rank for your cuisine, your neighborhood, and specific menu items. Conversion-tuned to turn 2-4× more visitors into paying diners than a typical restaurant site.

Online Ordering

Frictionless ordering experience modeled on what works in the marketplaces — but with intelligent upsells that grow average ticket size, and zero commission.

Zero-Commission Delivery

Top-rated third-party drivers, flat-fee delivery. Better margins for the restaurant, lower checkout total for the diner. Nobody held hostage.

Automated Marketing

Pre-built email, SMS, and push campaigns that turn first-time orderers into regulars and revive lapsed customers — always-on, always relevant.

Custom Branded App

Your own app on the diner's home screen — like Starbucks and Domino's, scaled for an independent operator. Push notifications, loyalty enrollment, faster repeat orders.

Loyalty Program

Built-in rewards that turn occasional customers into regulars who order directly from you instead of opening the marketplace app.

Real results

What this looks like in practice.

Two of Owner.com's published case studies. These are not BMSachs clients — they are restaurants who deployed the platform we deploy, and these are their reported results.

Case study

Doo-Dah Diner — Wichita, KS

A modern website ranking at the top of Google for terms like "best diner in Wichita" — driving 40+ new customers per month. A custom-branded app that 500 guests downloaded within 30 days, becoming the primary takeout channel. Commission-free delivery driving over $2,000/month in delivery business.

+$72K sales · +54% growth · +$19K saved on commissions

Case study

Talkin' Tacos — Miramar, FL

Grew from 1 location to 15 in under four years. Website ranking for "tacos in Miramar" and dozens of menu items, driving 700+ new customers monthly. App downloaded by over 10,000 guests in 90 days, with 4.9/5.0 satisfaction. Database of 40K+ customers, tens of thousands enrolled in built-in loyalty.

+$2M sales · +970% growth · +$435K saved on commissions

Who this is for

Honest about fit.

The platform is built for a specific kind of restaurant. Before we sign anything, we'll tell you whether you're inside that profile or outside it. No hard sell, no pretending you're a fit when you're not.

Strong fit

  • Independent restaurant, 1-15 locations
  • Brick-and-mortar with a unique street address
  • Aiming for ~25%+ of revenue through takeout / delivery
  • 4.0+ Google rating, ideally 100+ reviews
  • Cuisines that travel well: pizza, American, Mexican, Italian, Chinese, Thai, Indian, BBQ, Mediterranean, Korean, Japanese, burgers and delis
  • Owns its web domain, has a customer guest list with names / emails / phones

Not a fit

  • Fine-dining concepts that are wholly on-premise
  • Bars, lounges, breweries, dessert-only, coffee-only, juice / smoothie / boba
  • Food trucks, ghost kitchens, food halls, shared commissaries — anywhere without a dedicated address
  • Restaurants closed more than four months a year (seasonal-only operations)
  • Concepts where food and beverage isn't the primary product (golf clubs, bowling alleys, etc.)
  • Restaurants that haven't opened yet, or have no traction
How it works with us

From first conversation to live system in about a week.

Step 1

Free fit assessment

We run a digital health-check on your current website, ordering setup, and Google presence. No charge, no pitch. You get a one-page diagnostic regardless of whether you move forward.

Step 2

Platform deployment

Average launch cycle is around seven business days from contract signing. Month-to-month, no cancellation fees, setup fee waived through our partner relationship.

Step 3

Custom AI on top

Once the platform is live and stable, we identify the highest-leverage AI bottleneck in your operation and ship it as a fixed-scope, fixed-fee engagement — typically 4-8 weeks per agent.

Disclosure: Blackman Morgan Sachs Group is a contracted partner of Owner.com and may receive a referral fee when restaurants we introduce go live on the platform. Our recommendation is based on having reviewed the alternatives and concluding this is the best fit for independent operators in our target profile.

Curious if your restaurant fits?

We'll run a free digital health-check on your current setup — website performance, Google ranking, ordering flow — and tell you honestly whether the platform makes sense for you.