Three great rooms. No engine underneath them.

What started as one cocktail bar on Charleston's East Bay Street has become one of the most recognizable hospitality names in the Southeast. Prohibition Charleston opened as the original — a Prohibition-era speakeasy with award-winning cocktails, Southern-inspired food, live music and a private-events business. It arrived when the Charleston market was still uncrowded, and it earned its reputation the hard way: through the room, the drinks, and the crowd.

From there the group expanded into two more markets. Repeal 33 in Savannah — rebranded from Prohibition after a naming conflict with a local museum — leaned into the kitchen and became a full restaurant under Exec Chef Greg Garrison, now an award-winning cuisine-and-cocktails destination on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. And Prohibition Columbia, opened roughly two years ago on Main Street in the state capital, runs as a livelier bar built around sports, TVs and live music — the same speakeasy DNA, tuned to a different crowd.

Three venues, three cities, one operating group with real brand equity. The concepts diverge on purpose — a cocktail bar, a restaurant, a sports-and-music bar — but they share a founding team, a chef, a design language, and a decade of goodwill. What they don't yet share is a modern digital engine underneath them.

There's no prior Resto Experience audit for the group, so this proposal is built from two sources: our own review of each venue's public digital footprint — the three websites, the three Instagram accounts, local search and review surfaces across all three markets — and everything you and Greg walked us through on the call.

Both point to the same conclusion. The venues work. The digital engine underneath them barely exists. Three well-known concepts with real crowds, real reputations and a combined 27K organic followers — and not one of them is running SEO, not one is running paid ads, and the email and text data sitting inside Toast is completely dormant. You found us by typing a query into ChatGPT. That is the exact problem, from the inside: your own group is hard to find the moment someone goes looking for it.

The other thing that defines this engagement is the Spot Hopper scar. When Savannah left that platform, the website and all the content went with it, and the SEO dropped. That experience is the right lens for everything below: with Resto360, every asset we build — websites, photos, videos, reels, the brand book — is owned outright by you. Nothing is rented. Nothing walks out the door if we ever part ways.

The group operates in three of the strongest hospitality markets in the Southeast, and each one rewards exactly the work that isn't being done yet.

Charleston is a national dining destination with relentless tourist traffic and a saturated, sophisticated bar scene — the market Prohibition entered early and now has to defend against operators who market aggressively. Savannah draws millions of visitors a year to its historic downtown, where Repeal 33 sits blocks from the tourist core; the guest deciding where to eat tonight is almost always searching on a phone. Columbia is a capital city with a large university population and far less upscale-bar competition — the market with the most room to own, and the newest of the three.

All three share one thing: the highest-intent guest is a visitor or a local typing a query — “best cocktail bar Charleston,” “downtown Savannah dinner,” “live music Columbia tonight,” and increasingly the same questions asked to ChatGPT and Gemini. When that search doesn't surface your venues, the booking goes to whoever did the search work. Today, across all three markets, that is rarely you — not because the venues aren't good enough, but because nobody is doing the search and paid work that competitors already are.

Seven signals from our review of the group's digital presence and the discovery call with Ray and Greg. Each is an observation we can point to, paired with the specific work that answers it — across all three locations.

Resto Experience was founded by restaurant operators, not marketers who wandered into hospitality. Our own group, Rreal Tacos, went from one location to thirteen — the newest opening in Tampa — with the flagship Midtown Atlanta store running around $700,000 a month, up from roughly $300K in the early days. Every play in Resto360 was built, broken and rebuilt in our own dining rooms and on our own P&L before it was ever sold to a client. When we talk about running marketing across multiple locations at once, that is our normal, not a stretch.

Resto360 is one integrated system, not a menu of vendors. Brand and visual identity, custom website development, content production, social media, paid media on Meta and Google, email and SMS through Toast, influencer partnerships, reputation and review management, and a live performance dashboard — all under one team and one strategy. That structure is the entire point for your group: the failure mode you're living now isn't bad tactics, it's uncoordinated ones spread across a PR firm, an in-house designer, and no one on search.

Two things matter especially for you. First, ownership: unlike Spot Hopper, every asset we build is yours outright — the websites are hand-coded (not rented templates), and all photos, videos and reels are produced for you to keep. Second, websites built to rank: we code in HTML rather than page-builder platforms specifically so we have the technical control that SEO in competitive markets requires — the same approach that keeps our own agency ranking at the top of search.

On the call Ray asked whether services could be bought à la carte. The honest answer is that the integrated program is where we produce results, because unified control across every channel is what makes the work measurable — but the door is open. If you want a different scope, send us a counter-proposal and we'll build to it. Everything runs on a month-to-month service agreement with a 30-day cancellation clause; you keep every asset created up to that point.

Twelve services, one team, one strategy — run in parallel across Prohibition Charleston, Repeal 33 Savannah and Prohibition Columbia. Each description is scoped to what this group needs: search, paid, and owned digital, built on assets you own.

Three engagements from our portfolio, chosen because each maps onto a specific part of your situation: running one system across many locations, driving a multi-market group's revenue, and turning strong rooms with weak digital into measurable demand.

Multiple strategies run in parallel from day one — ads and content don't wait on websites. The sequence below runs across all three locations at once, with the search work you named first turned on early.

What follows is a scenario, not a forecast, and not a guarantee. Growth depends on sustained investment, execution on the floor, seasonality and market conditions none of us control. What we commit to is the sequence, the discipline and the measurement — so at every stage, in every market, you can see what the work is doing.

If this reads right, here's how we start. Nothing below is a long commitment — the agreement is month-to-month with 30 days' notice, and you own every asset from day one.