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Hospitality · 2025

Restaurant bookings, without the commission

An independent restaurant losing 12% of every cover to a booking platform. We built direct reservations into their own site and ran the social alongside it.

E-commerce BuildSocial MediaPhotography Direction
saffron-lane.co.uk
The Saffron Lane website we designed
£2.4k
Monthly fees saved
+61%
Direct bookings
9.2k
New followers

Project details

Client
Saffron Lane
Sector
Hospitality
Year
2025
Services
E-commerce Build, Social Media, Photography Direction
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The challenge

An independent restaurant losing 12% of every cover to a booking platform. We built direct reservations into their own site and ran the social alongside it.

Like most businesses at this stage, Saffron Lane weren't short of demand — they were short of a way for the right people to find them and take the next step without friction. Everything we built was aimed squarely at that gap.

What we did

  • E-commerce Build

    Delivered end to end by our own team, built to work alongside everything else in the project rather than as an isolated piece.

  • Social Media

    Delivered end to end by our own team, built to work alongside everything else in the project rather than as an isolated piece.

  • Photography Direction

    Delivered end to end by our own team, built to work alongside everything else in the project rather than as an isolated piece.

The outcome

£2.4k
Monthly fees saved
+61%
Direct bookings
9.2k
New followers

Saffron Lane stayed on with us afterwards for hosting and ongoing support, which is the outcome we care about most — the project didn't end at launch.

They took the social media entirely off my hands. I approve the calendar once a month and that's genuinely it — and it's working.
PRPriya RamanOwner, Saffron Lane
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