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A normal month · The Brasserie at Darleys, Derby · 8 October to 5 November 2026

This is a normal month with Wonder Works. Everything we did for one restaurant, for €1,500.

Darleys is a restaurant in Derby on our full partnership: the marketing, the social media, the design, the website, the Google and AI search work, the email, the outreach to other businesses and the operations behind the scenes, for €1,500 a month. These are the last four weeks exactly as they happened, with the numbers, the designs and the messages. Nothing on this page was an extra and nothing was invoiced on top. It is what working with us looks like, week in, week out.

  • 2× clicks from Google in four weeks
  • 90 jobs opened, 45 finished
  • €1,500 a month, nothing on top

What did we actually do in four weeks?

Eleven areas of one restaurant, all moving at once. Every job for Darleys goes onto our own job board, a system we built that reads the group chat, the emails and the shared folders so that nothing anyone asks for gets missed, and turns each request into a tracked job for the two of us. Roughly ninety jobs went onto it in the period and around forty-five were finished and checked, with the rest, like the Christmas wall series and the winter menu, still running. This is the list.

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What does a month with Wonder Works look like?

Here is the month as it happened. Every entry is something that was delivered, published or sent on that day, taken from our job board and the chat with Lee and Rob. It reads as busy because it was, and because every month is.

28 days with work delivered · 63 entries · Thursday 8 October to Thursday 5 November

    • Lee asks for an image for the booking page at 12:20; options are with him by 15:49
    • Rob asks about the drinks menus; the cocktail list, wine list and soft drinks follow within a day
    • All three drinks menus in the print pack
    • Lee asks for new table talkers; it was already on our list
    • First table talker design sent at 07:18
    • Three print-ready table talker versions, after Lee's feedback
    • Our job board starts reading the chat and the shared folder every morning, so anything new becomes a tracked job
    • Full audit of darleys.com: 58 pages, 2,346 searches, competitors, what ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity say
    • Fiamma Thursdays launch: three countdown Reels, a Facebook event, the launch email
    • Website upgrade stage 1 begins across all 59 pages
    • Upgrade live: every dish readable by Google, one footer, 26 old addresses redirected, the MICHELIN Guide line on every page
    • Google Business Profile and TripAdvisor corrected
    • Rhiannon email sent; revised table talker file
    • Lee asks for a kids' section on the Fiamma menu at 09:16; the updated menu is back at 14:17
    • 'Nduja and candied jalapeño Reels
    • Fiamma profile fixes, round two
  1. nothing on this day

    • Rhiannon plays Sunday Sessions: poster, Facebook event, email, Reel, carousel and web page all done
    • Weekly Google and AI check, the first of three
    • Lee sends five menu changes in one message at 13:49
    • Brasserie changes and the 24oz Butcher's Board live on the website
    • Christmas wall poster, week one, on Instagram, Facebook and Google
    • Christmas email one: 5,894 sent, 55.9% opened, 171 clicks
    • Kevin Goodall social post
    • All updated menus in Drive by 08:03, the new breakfast menu by 11:53
    • Kevin Goodall email, 51.8% opened
    • We notice breakfast bookings are closed in the booking system and tell Lee; he fixes it in 17 minutes
    • Breakfast is Back carousel and the Saturday Set Lunch carousel published
    • Fiamma profile fixes, round three
    • New pages live: /breakfast and /saturday-set-lunch, with menus, FAQ, chatbot and AI files updated
    • Weekend Breakfast launches. Everything above landed before it
    • Kevin Goodall plays Sunday Sessions
    • Weekly Google and AI check, the second
    • Rob asks for the full menu pack for the printers by Wednesday
    • Lee asks for the steak and sides layout reworked at 05:56; three options by the afternoon
    • Every menu updated
    • Full print pack with bleed and non-bleed versions, 11:37
    • Lee asks for a table talker for print today at 12:50; designs ready at 16:40
    • Eight A-boards and a digital menu screen asked for
    • Sarah Lou email and 12-second Reel
    • All eight A-boards built
    • Booking switch date agreed with Lee for Monday
    • Toast gift card artwork designed
    • Gift card image live in the online shop; a gift voucher page, home page strip and Christmas panel on the website, unasked
    • Christmas enquiries written up: 15 so far, 157 to 166 guests
    • Print-ready files for all twelve A-board pages
    • Sarah Lou plays Sunday Sessions
    • A-boards sent to Lee
    • Bookings switched from resOS to Toast between 06:43 and 07:22: website, Facebook, Google, chatbot, legal pages, AI files
    • Lee at 10:23: "toast tables appears to be working, thank you"
    • Christmas poster, week two, planned
    • Google Reserve moved to Toast
    • Pancake Boy & Miss Shapen: researched from nothing, four poster concepts, Facebook event with 500 invites, web page, booking listing, email draft
    • Exterior sign proof and wall mock-ups with the sign maker by 08:47
    • Touchscreen menu published to the restaurant's screen, ten days early
    • Christmas email two to 5,675 people who had not clicked
    • Reel versus carousel reach test written up
    • Lee asks whether a Christmas brasserie menu exists at 12:39; it did, and the steaks he wanted were added by 18:03
    • Competitor price comparison delivered
    • All 61 pages crawled: zero old booking links left
    • Touchscreen fault reported at 07:20; all 62 pages checked and the menus republished the same day
    • Redesigned A-boards and photo mock-ups sent for approval at 12:55
    • Christmas page rebuilt around the new booking rule
    • Eggs Benedict Reel, final cut

How quickly do we answer when you need something?

This is the part people ask about most. Darleys has one group chat with us, and it is where menus change, posters get approved and problems get solved. These are real messages from the four weeks, with the real times. The small clock on each of our replies is how long it took us to answer.

Darleys 2.03 people

Thursday 8 October

  1. LeeOwner

    Waitlist & reservations, have you got a nice image you can place here?

  2. Wonder WorksUsreplied in 2 min

    On it, for best results we pass to the best person (Neli).

What happened next: Two options were with Lee at 15:49 the same afternoon. His reply: "You choose! Both are great."

Monday 19 October

  1. LeeOwner

    Five menu changes in one go: retire bottomless brunch, launch Weekend Breakfast on the 24th, a new Saturday Set Lunch, Brasserie dish changes, Sunday Roast changes and a 24oz Butcher's Board.

  2. Wonder WorksUsreplied in 24 min

    You are beyond any doubt my favourite client. We will get to work on all of the above and deliver in priority order.

What happened next: Brasserie and Butcher's Block changes were on the website the next day, every updated menu was in Drive by the 21st, the breakfast and set lunch carousels went out on the 22nd and the two new web pages were live on the 23rd. Launch day was the 24th. Everything landed before it.

Wednesday 21 October

  1. Wonder WorksUs

    The booking system is not open for bookings for breakfast this week.

  2. LeeOwner

    I'm working it now.

What happened next: We spotted this one, not Lee. Fixed within 17 minutes. Checking the customer's journey is part of the job, not just delivering the artwork.

Monday 26 October

  1. RobManager

    Full menu pack for the printers please, every menu, high gloss, by Wednesday.

  2. Wonder WorksUsreplied in 13 min

    No problem at all, as soon as Lee sends the updates we will update and send you the full pack.

What happened next: Menus done on the Tuesday, the full print pack with bleed and non-bleed versions sent on Wednesday at 11:37. Lee: "Thank you! You rock!"

Wednesday 28 October

  1. LeeOwner

    Please can you update the table talker? If it's at all possible to get today for print.

  2. Wonder WorksUsreplied in 2 min

    On it!

  3. Wonder WorksUs

    Table talker designs are ready.

What happened next: Rob asked for a tweak at 18:53. We said yes at 19:06.

Wednesday 28 October

  1. LeeOwner

    Having the digital menu board sorted by the 13th would be a massive help.

  2. Wonder WorksUsreplied in 6 min

    I'll get working on the digital menu.

What happened next: A 62-page touchscreen menu was built from the print pack, checked twice against the printed menus and published to the restaurant's screen on 3 November, ten days early. Lee on the 4th: "Menus on the screen look great, thank you."

Thursday 29 October

  1. LeeOwner

    Can we switch over reservation systems Monday and re-introduce Toast gift vouchers?

  2. Wonder WorksUsreplied in 6 min

    Yes, I'll change over. I'll do this Sunday night late, as this allows for any issue.

What happened next: Switched early on Monday 2 November between 06:43 and 07:22: the website, Facebook, Google, the chatbot, the legal pages and the AI files. Lee at 10:23: "at first quick glance, toast tables appears to be working, thank you".

Thursday 29 October

  1. LeeOwner

    We might not seem appreciative sometimes, but we are always loving your work! Thank you X

What happened next: Unprompted. We keep this one.

Thursday 5 November

  1. LeeOwner

    How we doing on A board pavement designs? Just conscious of time.

  2. Wonder WorksUsreplied in 1 min

    Working on them as we speak.

  3. LeeOwner

    The menu screen has errors. Some buttons are not working.

  4. Wonder WorksUsreplied in 31 min

    Cool, get Rob to check and let me know, I'll also check now.

What happened next: All 62 screen pages were checked remotely and a report was back with Lee at 08:04; the menus were republished at 14:01. The revised A-board set went to him at 12:55. Lee: "Thank you! 💪"

There is no account manager and no ticket queue. You message, one of the two of us answers, and the work starts. That is the whole system.

What happened when we upgraded the website nobody asked us to upgrade?

Nobody at Darleys asked for this. On 13 October we audited darleys.com properly, all 58 pages, 2,346 searches with their volumes in the UK and in Derby, the competitors, and what ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity said when asked about eating out in Derby. The audit found that the menus only sent their first section to Google, so 33 of 183 dishes were visible and not a single steak; that the MICHELIN Guide 2026 listing and the TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice award were not mentioned anywhere on the site; that old fine-dining descriptions were still live on Google, OpenTable, the Good Food Guide and Visit Derby; and that the opening hours contradicted each other from page to page.

So we fixed it, on the 13th and 14th, across all 59 pages: every dish written into the page itself, a new menus hub, one footer with the name, address, phone and hours on every page, 26 old addresses redirected, the awards line on every page, "fine dining" gone from every title, and the chat assistant corrected. Then TripAdvisor and the Google Business Profile were brought into line, including two wrong phone numbers Google had added by itself.

Since then the site has had three new pages, four event pages, a menu update, a gift voucher page, a Christmas page rebuilt around a new booking rule, and the booking switch, each one checked afterwards as a customer would see it. This is the website work and the Google and AI search work we do for every client.

What did the upgrade do to the numbers?

Google Search Console, the four weeks from 7 October to 3 November against the four weeks before. Stage one of the upgrade went live on 13 and 14 October.

  1. Clicks from Google

    before1,280
    after2,520

    +97%

  2. Times shown in Google

    before17,000
    after22,900

    +35%

  3. Share who clicked

    before7.5%
    after11%

    +47%

  4. Appearances in Google's AI answers, a day

    before29
    after96

    +231%

The AI line compares the ten weeks before the upgrade with the week of 28 October to 3 November. The biggest single source of new clicks was the corrected link on the Google Business Profile: 1,092 clicks from zero. Average position fell from 7.7 to 9.6, because the site now shows for many searches it never appeared for before.

Checked live from Derby on a phone on 5 November: for "riverside restaurant derby" Darleys is the first map result after one advert and the first organic result, and for "michelin star restaurants derby" Google's AI Overview names The Brasserie at Darleys first. It is listed in the MICHELIN Guide 2026; it does not hold a star, and we never say it does.

What's on the tables?

Twelve menus redesigned and packed for the printers in the four weeks, three of them brand new: Weekend Breakfast, the Saturday Set Lunch and a two-page Winter Collection. The Brasserie menu was rebuilt so the steaks and sides sit together in one From the Grill section, because Lee said steak sales had slowed. The Fiamma menu got a kids' section the same day he asked.

The Brasserie menu, introduction page, for The Brasserie at Darleys, Derby, designed by Wonder Works
Weekend Breakfast menu for The Brasserie at Darleys, designed by Wonder Works
Saturday Set Lunch menu for The Brasserie at Darleys, designed by Wonder Works
Wednesday Steak Night menu for The Brasserie at Darleys, designed by Wonder Works
Fiamma Thursdays pizza menu at The Brasserie at Darleys, designed by Wonder Works
Sunday Roasts menu for The Brasserie at Darleys, designed by Wonder Works
Little Flames children's menu for The Brasserie at Darleys, designed by Wonder Works
Wine list for The Brasserie at Darleys, designed by Wonder Works
Christmas party menu 2026 for The Brasserie at Darleys, designed by Wonder Works
Coffee & Bakery menu for The Brasserie at Darleys, designed by Wonder Works

The table talker, two rounds in four weeks

A5 table talker for The Brasserie at Darleys, front: Fiamma Thursdays and the Wednesday Butcher's BlockA5 table talker for The Brasserie at Darleys, back: Saturday Set Lunch and Breakfast at Darleys

Tap it to turn it over. First design the morning after Lee asked; three print-ready versions within 24 hours of his feedback; a new version for print in under four hours on 28 October.

What else was designed?

Eight A-board designs for the pavement in two days, then a redesign around what Lee saw in them and photo mock-ups on the boards themselves so he could judge them where they will stand. These are the 5 November set, sent for his approval. A new exterior sign in the brand's Midnight River and Brushed Brass, mocked up on the wall and sent to the sign maker as a full-size proof. A 62-page touchscreen menu with 290 touch controls, built from the print pack, published to the restaurant's screen ten days before the date Lee gave. A gift voucher image for the online shop, approved and live within two days.

  • A-board for The Brasserie at Darleys, Saturday Set Lunch, shown on a black timber board outside the restaurant, the 5 November 2026 design for approval, designed by Wonder Works
    A-board, Saturday Set Lunch
  • A-board for The Brasserie at Darleys, Breakfast at Darleys, shown on a black timber board outside the restaurant, the 5 November 2026 design for approval, designed by Wonder Works
    A-board, Breakfast at Darleys
  • A-board for The Brasserie at Darleys, Sunday Roast, shown on a black timber board outside the restaurant, the 5 November 2026 design for approval, designed by Wonder Works
    A-board, Sunday Roast
  • A-board for The Brasserie at Darleys, Wednesday Steak Night, shown on a black timber board outside the restaurant, the 5 November 2026 design for approval, designed by Wonder Works
    A-board, Wednesday Steak Night
  • A-board for The Brasserie at Darleys, Fiamma Thursdays, shown on a black timber board outside the restaurant, the 5 November 2026 design for approval, designed by Wonder Works
    A-board, Fiamma Thursdays
  • A-board for The Brasserie at Darleys, Sunday Sessions, shown on a black timber board outside the restaurant, the 5 November 2026 design for approval, designed by Wonder Works
    A-board, Sunday Sessions
  • A-board for The Brasserie at Darleys, Coffee and Cake, shown on a black timber board outside the restaurant, the 5 November 2026 design for approval, designed by Wonder Works
    A-board, Coffee and Cake
  • A-board for The Brasserie at Darleys, Coffee and Croissant, shown on a black timber board outside the restaurant, the 5 November 2026 design for approval, designed by Wonder Works
    A-board, Coffee and Croissant
  • Darleys gift voucher image for the online shop: a navy panel reading The Brasserie at Darleys, a gift for you, over a soft photo of the dining room, designed by Wonder Works
    Gift voucher, live in the online shop
  • Festive Brasserie Dining: one of eleven Christmas experience images designed for the Darleys booking system, two glasses of red wine and a candle at a window table with snowy trees outside
    One of eleven Christmas images for the booking system
  • A full English breakfast on a blue-grey plate at the kitchen pass, retouched for the Darleys touchscreen menu
    Retouched for the touchscreen menu
  • Cocktail list for The Brasserie at Darleys, October 2026, with line-drawn glassware, designed by Wonder Works
    Cocktail list, in the print pack on 9 October

How many people saw Darleys on social media in October?

Views on Instagram and Facebook, every day in September and October, taken from Metricool. October's Instagram views were double September's, 63,474 against 31,956, and Facebook's were up 28%. All of it organic: not one post was paid for. The spike on 21 October is the day the weekend breakfast relaunch went out: 40,180 views in one day across the two accounts.

20,09040,180SeptemberOctober40,180 · the breakfast relaunch goes out

views a day

Views by month
MonthViewsthe biggest day
September 2026113,75311,068 (5 September)
October 2026168,45840,180 (21 October)

Source: Metricool, Instagram views plus Facebook content views, by day. Views count repeat viewers, so these are not unique people.

What did we make for it?

Campaigns, not one-off posts. In the four weeks: the Fiamma Thursdays launch with three countdown Reels, an unboxing teaser and two ingredient Reels; the Breakfast is Back carousel; the Saturday Set Lunch carousel; the Christmas wall poster series, built so a new poster goes out each week until Christmas; a Bonfire Night post for the pizzeria that went through five versions in half an hour until it used Lee's own pizza; and a 48-second Eggs Benedict Reel cut from footage Lee filmed on his phone. We also tested the same content as a Reel and as a carousel: the carousel reached 1,119 people on Instagram and 2,735 on Facebook in seven days, against 366 and 434 for the Reel in twenty. So explainers now go out as carousels.

  1. 21 and 22 October

    Breakfast is Back carousel for The Brasserie at Darleys, slide 1: A much-loved tradition returns, weekend breakfast from Saturday 24 October, designed by Wonder WorksBreakfast is Back carousel for The Brasserie at Darleys, slide 3: The proper full English, designed by Wonder Works

    Breakfast is Back

    The carousel that relaunched weekend breakfast. The two breakfast carousels made 21 October the biggest day of the autumn for views.

  2. 21 October

    A Bridge Back to Better Mornings carousel for The Brasserie at Darleys, slide 1: the footbridge at Darley Abbey Mills, designed by Wonder WorksA Bridge Back to Better Mornings carousel for The Brasserie at Darleys, slide 2: The long way round, the bridge closures at Darley Abbey Mills, designed by Wonder Works

    A bridge back to better mornings

    A local story nobody could copy: the footbridge at the mills, told as a breakfast carousel.

  3. 22 October

    Saturday Set Lunch carousel for The Brasserie at Darleys, slide 1, designed by Wonder WorksSaturday Set Lunch carousel for The Brasserie at Darleys, slide 2, designed by Wonder WorksSaturday Set Lunch carousel for The Brasserie at Darleys, slide 3, designed by Wonder WorksSaturday Set Lunch carousel for The Brasserie at Darleys, slide 4, designed by Wonder Works

    Saturday Set Lunch

    The carousel that launched the new set lunch, the same week as breakfast.

  4. 4 November

    The Pizza Plot: Bonfire Night social post for Fiamma Thursdays at The Brasserie at Darleys, a Guy Fawkes figure holding a pizza, designed by Wonder Works

    Fiamma Thursdays

    Bonfire Night post for the pizzeria. Five versions in thirty minutes; the one with Lee's real pizza won.

How do you fill a riverside terrace every Sunday?

Four acts in four weeks, each one promoted end to end: a poster, a Facebook event, an email to the list, a page on the website, the listing in the booking system and a post. The last act, Pancake Boy & Miss Shapen, had no web presence under that name, so we asked Rob for a bio at 07:08 on 3 November and by the end of the day there were four poster concepts, an approved poster, a Facebook event with 500 invites, the web page, the booking listing and the email draft.

  • Notebook-style Sunday Sessions poster for Rhiannon, 18 October 2026, The Brasserie at Darleys, designed by Wonder Works
    Rhiannon, 18 October
  • Sunday Sessions poster for Kevin Goodall, Smooth Sax on Sunday 25 October 2026 at The Brasserie at Darleys: a hand-drawn ink saxophonist in navy on cream, designed by Wonder Works
    Kevin Goodall, 25 October
  • Sunday Sessions poster for Sarah Lou, soul and Motown, 1 November 2026, The Brasserie at Darleys, designed by Wonder Works
    Sarah Lou, 1 November
  • Sunday Sessions poster for Pancake Boy & Miss Shapen, 8 November 2026, The Brasserie at Darleys, designed by Wonder Works
    Pancake Boy & Miss Shapen, 8 November

What did the Christmas push bring in?

A Christmas page on the website, two emails to the list, eleven Christmas experience images in the booking system, a wall poster series on social and outreach to local Derby businesses with verified addresses and approved wording. The emails go out as "Lee at Darleys", so they read as a person, not a venue.

These are enquiries, not confirmed bookings, and they came from the page, the emails, the posts and the season together. We report them to Lee and Rob every Friday with the names matched against the outreach list, and we do not claim more than the records show.

What happens behind the scenes?

Darleys moved its bookings from resOS to Toast. We wrote the switch-over checklist in advance so that on the day only one redirect had to change for every printed QR code in the building. On Monday 2 November between 06:43 and 07:22 we swept every place the old link lived and changed it: the central booking setting, seven hand-typed links on the website, the Facebook reservations button, bio and header, the Google Business Profile booking link, the chat assistant, the legal pages and the AI files. Then we checked it as a customer would. The next day Google's own booking button was moved to Toast too, and on 5 November we confirmed Google lists Toast as the only provider. On the 4th we crawled all 61 pages to prove zero old links remained.

The till now emails its daily sales summary to us and to Lee. We checked the first report line by line against the till categories, wrote it into the operational P&L we built for Darleys, back-filled the missing Sunday from the export, and scheduled the updates to run from Thursday to Monday on their own. A weekly product mix report shows the best and worst sellers by menu and by day. On top sits a private business dashboard with sales, covers, cost entry with a correction history, a calendar-year view and item drill-down, on our own hosting with an email-code login. That is it in the picture, with Lee's figures hidden. Lee gets access once our own tests are done.

Lee wanted to know where Darleys' prices sit. We researched 24 venues, matched like-for-like dishes, and built a comparison he can filter himself, with the evidence behind each number one tap away. Delivered on 4 November. What he does with it is his call; the research is ours.

The brand kit was populated from the 2026 brand book: eleven logo variants, the named Fire & Water palette, three fonts and guidelines on every asset, with the Fiamma kit completed alongside it. It sounds small. It is why a poster, a menu and a gift card made weeks apart look like they came from the same place.

The private Darleys business dashboard built by Wonder Works, November 2026 overview: the daily till report feed, every trading day, what came through by category, with the figures hidden
The Darleys business dashboard, November so far: the daily till report coming in, every trading day, what came through by category. Lee's figures are hidden.

What did we do that nobody asked for?

A partnership is not a ticket queue. Some of the most useful things in the month were things we noticed, and did, because they were good for the business.

What runs without being asked?

A monthly job list never shows this part. Alongside the deliverables, a set of checks runs for Darleys on its own schedule, each one reported and each one switched off when it has done its job.

  1. Every morning, 08:45

    The job board reads the chat

    Our job board, the system we built to keep the two of us organised, reads the Sunday Sessions booking sheet, Lee's uploads and the group chat, and turns anything new into a tracked job with Lee's own words and a link to the message. His A-board brief, his menu changes and his feedback all became tracked jobs within a day, every time.

  2. Mondays, 08:52

    Google and AI search check

    Search Console, rankings on 25 Derby searches, the map pack, twelve questions to ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, review counts and site health, written to a tracker and a one-page summary. Three runs in the period.

  3. Mondays, 08:47

    Christmas outreach, refill

    Finds up to fifteen new Derby businesses, checks them at Companies House, verifies the email addresses and enrols only the ones we approve.

  4. Fridays, 15:53

    Christmas outreach, results

    Matches the week's website enquiries against the outreach list and writes the summary that goes to Lee. Runs until 11 December.

  5. Mondays, 08:57

    Christmas poster of the week

    Plans, builds and schedules that week's wall poster post once it is approved.

  6. Thursday to Monday, 10:00

    Daily sales into the P&L

    Reads the till's summary email, checks the figures reconcile, writes the day into the operational P&L and the dashboard.

  7. Mondays, 10:00

    Product mix report

    Best and worst selling items by menu and by day for the previous week.

  8. Set and closed in the period

    One-off checks

    That the old booking provider had gone from Google; the Reel against the carousel at 48 hours and seven days; that the new web pages were indexed. Each one ran, reported and was switched off.

Was this an unusual month?

No. The month before, September, we designed and built Pizzeria Fiamma's website, Lee's second business, and launched Fiamma Thursdays at Darleys on 15 October. December will be busier than this one, because it is Christmas: the winter menu goes live on 25 November on the website, in print and on the touchscreen, the wall poster series runs every week, and the Christmas enquiries keep coming in. None of it is an extra charge. The fee is the fee, and the month is whatever the business needs.

What is in the €1,500 a month?

All of the above. One monthly fee, scoped before we start, and it is the most we charge: smaller businesses with less going on pay less. There is no account manager and no junior team; you get the two of us, directly, in your own group chat.

Open any of them to see what it means.

Your business€1,500 a month, at most

Paid ads are the one thing on top, and only when something deserves a push, on a budget you set. All our prices →

Is there anyone else who does all of this in one fee?

We looked, properly, before writing this page. There are good restaurant marketing agencies in the UK, and some of them cover the social media, the design, the website and the search work in one monthly plan. There are hospitality consultants who will read your P&L and fix your margins. There are freelance designers, web designers and SEO people, each very good at their part.

What we have yet to find is one place that does the marketing, the design, the website, the Google and AI search, the email and the outreach, and also the operations and finance side, with the people who have run restaurants doing the work themselves rather than an account manager passing it on, for one monthly fee a single independent restaurant, bar or pub can carry. That combination is the partnership, and this page is a month of it.

The reason it works at this price is simple to say and hard to copy: there are two of us, we use the best tools there are and we use them openly, and we only take on a small number of clients, so each one gets the two people who own the company.

Who answers the chat?

Two people, and the same two every month. We have both run hospitality businesses, which is why the operations side of the partnership exists at all.

What do Lee and Rob say?

★★★★★

We've had a fantastic experience working with WonderWorks on the new Pizzeria Fiamma website. They've captured the personality of our business beautifully and created a site that feels warm, distinctive and full of character. …

Lee Bebbington owner, The Brasserie at Darleys and Pizzeria Fiamma · Google review, September 2026
★★★★★

Wonder works is certainly the best name for Colin, Neli and co. Their creative skills and truly professional work ethic are indeed Wonderful and inspirational, they designed our website for the brasserie at Darleys and we are 200% happy with the website design and would recommend Wonder works design to anyone wholeheartedly 👌 …

Robert Ellis manager, The Brasserie at Darleys · Google review, September 2026

Questions a restaurant owner asks us first

What does a restaurant marketing agency actually do each month?

With us, what this page shows: the social media, the design and print, the website, the Google and AI search work, the email, the outreach to other businesses and the operations support, all moving at once and all under one monthly fee. Most agencies do one or two of those parts. The partnership works because the same two people do all of them, so a menu change on a Monday is on the website, in print and on social by the end of the week.

How much does Wonder Works cost?

€1,500 a month at most for the full partnership, scoped before we start. Businesses with less going on pay less. Our other prices are published too: a website is €500, Google and AI search on its own is €400 a month, and brand comes in two packages at €490 and €990. All our prices are here.

Is there a long contract?

No. The partnership runs month to month. We would rather earn the next month than lock it in.

Is the website included, or is that extra?

Included. If you need a website we build it, and either way we run it every week: new pages, menu changes, events, bookings, and the checks afterwards. A website is a live sales funnel and it needs someone on it all the time.

Who do I actually deal with?

Colin and Neli, in a group chat with you and whoever you want in it. There is no account manager between you and the people doing the work. The messages on this page are what that looks like.

How quickly do you reply?

Usually within minutes during the working day, as the chat above shows, and the work starts the same day. Bigger pieces come back with a date, and that date is kept: the touchscreen menu was asked for on 28 October with a deadline of 13 November and was on the screen on 3 November.

Do you run paid ads?

On request, when something deserves a push, on a budget you set. Everything on this page, every view, click and enquiry, was earned without a single paid post.

You are in Bulgaria. Does that work for a UK restaurant?

Darleys is in Derby and this is their normal month. The group chat, the website, the printers, the sign maker and the booking system do not care where we sit, and we work UK hours. Content that has to be shot on location is done with you and with local freelancers.

What is not included?

Paid advertising spend, print costs, and bookkeeping and tax. We read your P&L with you and build the tools around it; we are not your accountant.

What happens in the first month?

We audit what you have, the way we audited darleys.com on 13 October: the website, Google, what the AI assistants say about you, your social accounts and your menus. Then we fix what is broken first and build from there. It is not instant and we do not promise dates for results; it is planned, measured and corrected from real numbers.

Want a month like this for your restaurant, bar or pub?

Tell us what you run and we will tell you, honestly, whether we fit.

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