Getting recommended by AI search
How ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google's AI answers pick a restaurant, and what the work involves.
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Get an all-in-one, fractional marketing team built by industry insiders. We handle your photography, graphic design, local SEO, and automated guest retention, so you can keep your focus on the floor.
Running a successful restaurant or bar is already a full-time job. You deliver phenomenal food, craft incredible drinks, and build an unforgettable atmosphere. But in today's market, great hospitality isn't always enough to fill seats on a Tuesday night.
Most owners get stuck choosing between two bad options:
The result? You're left feeling overworked, taking low-quality iPhone photos during peak service, and watching less deserving places steal your local foot traffic.
Built by hospitality veterans, for hospitality leaders
Detrás is the kitchen call you hear when someone has your back while you're holding a hot plate. That's exactly how we operate.
Between us we have spent close to 45 years across hospitality and marketing, so we know the chaos of service, the late-night ideas, and how frustrating it is when hard work doesn't translate to a full dining room. We bring enterprise-grade marketing technology, real creative production, and industry grit, without the agency bloat.
Detrás is a tight-knit and specialized team and clients work directly with partners who build the strategy, make the decisions, and execute the work.
Pierce Ginzberg leads local search, websites, marketing strategy, and reporting, drawing on twelve years of growth marketing experience for restaurant supply, service businesses, and billion-dollar brands.
Les Voss leads photography, video, menu development, and content production, totaling over ten years of creative and marketing direction.
Daniel Gavrilin leads sales, account management, and operations strategy, bringing over a decade of first-hand hospitality operations experience to every client partnership.
Partnering with Detrás means senior-level attention from the first conversation through execution.
We don't try to save sinking ships. We partner with healthy, great concepts to gas them up and make them shine.
The work
How it works
We analyze your current digital presence, local listings, and menu friction points. We establish high visual standards with custom, professional photo and video content shoots.
We set up automated guest retention (email and SMS), optimize your local SEO, and handle your graphic design. We stay a full month ahead on your content calendar so you never scramble.
We launch targeted local campaigns while staying right behind you, ready to pivot on a dime for late-night ideas, shift changes, or last-minute weekend specials.
What we do
Detrás Co. is a fractional marketing team for independent venues. We run Denver restaurant marketing and Denver bar marketing for owners who would rather be on the floor than in a dashboard, plus marketing for Denver hospitality groups running several rooms. If you run a kitchen, start with the Denver restaurant marketing agency page. See all seven services.
| Without Detrás Co. | With Detrás Co. |
|---|---|
| Quiet mid-week shifts despite great food | Consistent, year-round foot traffic and packed seats |
| Overpriced agencies that take weeks to respond | A nimble, high-touch team that answers when inspiration strikes |
| Outdated menus, grainy social posts, and missed SEO calls | An authentic, high-end online presence that matches your guest experience |
| Exhausted operators trying to do everything themselves | Confident owners focusing purely on world-class hospitality |
Guides for owners
How ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google's AI answers pick a restaurant, and what the work involves.
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Why photo and PDF menus underperform in search and in AI answers.
Every restaurant the 2026 guide added, and what it means for Denver owners.
Google Maps, reviews, websites, AEO, and cost, each answered in a few sentences.
Stop wasting time trying to be a full-time marketer on top of running your venue. Let us handle the heavy lifting behind the scenes.
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