We believe in local restaurants

About us

We've been privileged to help thousands of restaurants all over the country since 2008.

This is who we are and why we do it.

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We believe in local restaurants

About us

We've been privileged to help thousands of restaurants all over the country since 2008.

This is who we are and why we do it.

Schedule A Call

Who we are and why we do it

At heart, we're all about local restaurants. From customer acquisition to retention, Repeat Returns is a complete customer life-cycle marketing solution specifically for for local restaurants.

We built Repeat Returns because the restaurant marketing landscape has become a total meat grinder for independent operators. The monster-chains crush locals with armies of marketing wizards at their disposal, while you're left juggling a thousand tasks with a shoestring budget.

That's where we come in. We're a band of renegade marketing warriors, battle-tested in the trenches of the restaurant industry. We speak fluent "foodie" and understand the unique challenges you face.

Discounts are a race to the bottom? Been there, done that (and hated it!). Social media a confusing black hole? Consider us your flashlight.

This is what we do

Our Mission: To empower independent restaurants to compete and conquer in a world dominated by giants.

We will never waste your time or money creating one-off discount-driven marketing blasts that XXXXX .

We build you a growth engines that:

Attract the right kind of hungry (and profitable) customers to your restaurant

Then we turn them into loyal fans by telling your story and selling them on your "wow" factors

And we continually nurture them on an individual engagement path—based on their individual habits and patterns

What does that mean for you?

A growing base of great customers who appreciate what you do for them, spend money, and promote you to their family, friends, and co-workers.

Create massive local attention for your restaurant
Attract the right kind of customers
Keep them coming back

This is why we do it

A growing base of great customers who appreciate what you do for them, spend money, and promote you to their family, friends, and co-workers.

This is who we serve

Who We Help: We're the secret weapon for independent restaurants of all shapes and sizes. From the fiery taco joint with a cult following to the cozy family-run trattoria, we help passionate restaurateurs like you turn their culinary dreams into thriving businesses.

We work one-on-one with you to develop, implement, monitor, and maximize a marketing strategy designed to

We do that by telling your story, and selling customers on the value you provide. This takes instead of defaulting to a discount-driven

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Our strange beginning...

Kamron Karington bought a nearly bankrupt pizzeria while on a phone call to get Rolling Stones tickets one night. (huh?)

The day he took over, half the staff bailed and the day's dough exploded in the walk-in (compressor died). Despite the sketchy start, Kamron rolled up his sleeves and rewrote the restaurant marketing playbook.

Over the next three years he increased sales by over 1,000% going from $12,000 a month to a staggering $149,000 a month—by boldly doing the exact opposite of everyone else.

Kamron became legendary for his straight-shooting, no-nonsense Pizza Expo seminars and private workshops.

After years of travelling, speaking, and teaching others how to cut through the crap, ditch the endless discounts, and craft marketing that actually hauls in customers and makes money, he tackled the biggest pain point of all—time.

Kamron founded Repeat Returns in 2008 as a way to arm even the smallest mom-n-pop with automated marketing that maximizes customer frequency and spend.

But it only solved half the problem...

Despite the amazing results clients achieved, something was still missing from the platform—the ability to haul in NEW customers.

How could that pesky little problem be solved?

That's when fate intervened...

In May 2023, a mutual friend introduced Kamron to Matt Plapp, the founder and CEO of America’s Best Restaurants.

Over lunch, Kamron quickly realized—Matt had cracked the code on attracting restaurant customers at scale.

And when Matt mentioned he was on the hunt for a marketing platform to guide the customer journey after acquisition...

...it was clear, each had the missing piece the other was searching for.

By merging America’s Best Restaurants with Repeat Returns, they could create a full-cycle restaurant marketing solution capable of not only attracting customers, but then amplifying the customer journey.

Las Vegas - November 2023: Matt Plapp and Kamron Karington celebrate the merger.

Our future...

Matt Plapp is the high-energy, hard-driving founder and CEO of America's Best Restaurants (ABR), a trailblazing agency dedicated to helping independent restaurants tell their stories, acquire customers, and build unstoppable sales momentum.

Matt's visionary leadership has grown ABR into the largest restaurant marketing agency in the nation, boasting a 9,000-square-foot coaching, training, and multi-media facility, and mobile studios that crisscross the country.

When the world was thrown into disarray during the pandemic, Matt didn’t retreat; he went into overdrive. Boarding over 200 planes, he personally visited struggling restaurant owners, providing hands-on support to help them weather the storm.

Matt's dedication to the restaurant industry is unmatched, having traveled to over 1,000 restaurants to gain a deep understanding of what works and what doesn’t in the ever-evolving landscape of restaurant marketing.

His relentless commitment and innovative approach have made him a revered figure in the restaurant marketing world, transforming challenges into victories for countless local restaurants across the nation.

Why our clients use us

Unrivaled experience growing restaurant sales. It's all we do,

Stress-free marketing managed by our experts.

We are the only agency to provide complete customer life-cycle marketing from acquisition to retention (go ahead, look around).

Guaranteed Results: We are the only agency to provide complete customer life-cycle marketing from acquisition to retention.

Power Platform: Our SMART Platform was purpose-built for restaurant marketing. The results speak for themselves.

Recognized Authorities: Just "Google" Matt Plapp and Kamron Karington and you'll see page after page of

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Our Mission obsession

We are obsessed with YOUR success.

We exist to level the playing field for local mom-n-pop restaurants by making Fortune-500 "done-for-you" marketing available and ridiculously affordable.

We respect your hard-earned money, value your trust, and aim to eliminate the barriers and frustrations of growing your business.

In a world dominated by big corporate chains, independent restaurants often feel like the underdog. We get it. That's why we’ve made it our mission to arm you with the same marketing firepower that the big chains wield. We're on your side in this battle, committed to helping you not just survive, but thrive. We believe in the power of local restaurants to bring communities together, and we're here to ensure you can compete and win against the giants.

We speak restaurant

Supercharge your growth with the tools you need, in one place, working together, done-for-you.

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7847 Tanners Ln Suite 100,

Florence, KY 41042

(702) 966-3001

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Social

Struggled to see any results from social media? Most restaurants do. And that creates a huge opportunity for you.

We will absolutely blow your mind with the traffic we haul in for you. We've cracked the code on turning "Likes" into lines.

Online

Outdated website? Laid out like a train wreck? Invisible in search? No keywords, pixels, or meta description?

We’ll reboot your website into a high-ranking, eyeball-pulling traffic-driving, order-generating powerhouse.

Reputation

Attract an insane amount of new customers

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Automation

DIY marketing is just another way to work more and waste money.

Why we exist

We're here for the owners who get trashed on Yelp, gutted by Groupon, exploited by 3rd-party delivery parasites.

Transition away from garbage marketing that keeps owners broke...

Marketing is the only investment that has the power to change your life.

Rent, labor, food, insurance, repairs... drop nothing to the top, or bottom line. They are just expenses.

Unfortunately, restaurant marketing has devolved into a tangled mess that burns cash and delivers nothing but smoke.

Our mission Fractional

Independent restaurants can't afford a full-blown marketing agency like the big chains.

To make every marketing dollar do the work of 10

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Attract

more customers

Build

profit-per-customer

Retain

more customers

Burn Money

Patchwork

Do-it-yourself

Impulse-driven

Impulse

Batch-and-blast

Discounts/coupons

Print Money

Platform

Automated

Data-driven

Data-driven

Targeted

SMART Offers

We solve these problems

They struggle with junk-marketing that burns cash and delivers smoke.

All this as you

Complexity

Repeat Returns replaces the complexity of multiple marketing services that require YOU to do all the work, with a single “done-for-you” platform that adapts to each customer’s buying habits and behavior patterns.

DIY

Do-it-yourself doesn’t stand a chance against deep-pocket competitors with auto-pilot program that acts immediately when the opportunity is there.

Complexity

Repeat Returns replaces the complexity of multiple marketing services that require YOU to do all the work, with a single “done-for-you” platform that adapts to each customer’s buying habits and behavior patterns.