Most independent restaurants on Long Island are paying Yelp for ads on their own brand name. The owners with steady weeknight covers built a real site that ranks for 'italian restaurant Massapequa' + their menu, reservation, and catering pages. Forge ships that whole stack in a week and keeps the menu in sync.
Restaurant SEO on Long Island is brutally competitive — but only above the fold. Below the local pack, real ranking signal comes from menu pages indexed item-by-item, town-specific 'best italian in [town]' pages, and structured Restaurant + Menu schema. We ship all of it on day one. Voice AI agent on the phone line takes reservation requests after hours so you stop losing them to voicemail.
No — we don't touch your POS or reservations platform. The site embeds them where it makes sense (Resy widget, Toast online-order link, OpenTable) so the site is the front door and your existing software is the back office. You keep what works.
Yes — drop a text message in (or a PDF, or a photo of the chalkboard) and the nightly pipeline updates the menu page + Google Business Profile + structured Menu schema. No more 'we forgot to take the special off the website three weeks ago'.
A separate phantom website we own — say huntington-italian.co — that ranks for "italian restaurant huntington near me" in your service area. When someone calls the number on that site, the call rings at your shop. Exclusive — not shared with five competitors like HomeAdvisor.
Yes — your own site, your own phone, your own GA4 + Search Console properties. The phantom phone line is ours (we built it to rank), but the website and brand are yours, free and clear.
LSA is pay-per-lead and your competitors bid against you on the same query. Phantom phone lines are exclusive — only your shop's calls ring through. And you own a real website that compounds over years; LSA stops the second you stop paying.
$3,000 one-time to build your site, then $300/mo for the AI-shipped SEO + the phantom phone line. Or pay-per-qualified-call at $29/each on the phantom line. Most shops break even on month 1–2.
Tell us your business in 60 seconds. The phantom phone line starts ranking inside 8.