How it works

Reserve one of Eight Featured Placements in your city.

Ate Local features only eight local Food & Drink businesses per city — restaurants, cafés, bakeries, bars. Pick your placement, choose Monthly, Quarterly, or Annual, and it's yours for the full term.

Three ways to reserve

Monthly · Quarterly · Annually

Same placement, different terms. Longer commitments come with a small discount, set per city.

Reserve Monthly
Month-to-month

Renews every 30 days. Perfect for testing Ate Local or when you want maximum flexibility. Cancel anytime.

Reserve Quarterly
A full season

Renews every 90 days at a small discount. Great for patio season, holidays, or launch pushes.

Reserve Annually
Best value

Renews once a year at the best rate. The most predictable way to stay featured all year long.

Prices are set per city. Any per-placement discount is shown on the reservation modal.

Reward for going first

Founding Pricing

The first 8 Featured Placements in every market reserve at Founding Pricing — and keep that rate for as long as their placement stays active.

What it is

A permanently lower monthly rate offered to the first 8 businesses to reserve a Featured Placement in each market.

Why it exists

Founding Members help launch a market. Founding Pricing is how we thank the businesses that show up first.

Locked in while active

As long as your Featured Placement stays active, your Founding rate stays yours — even if standard pricing later increases.

Founding Member recognition

Qualifying businesses see a Founding Member badge in their dashboard, marking them as a launch partner in their city.

Limited to the first 8 Featured Placements per market. If a business cancels, that Founding spot may reopen for the next business in line, subject to program rules.

From open to featured

Four simple steps

Fixed monthly, quarterly, or annual reservations. Same price for the full term.

  1. Step 1
    Pick your city

    Every city features only eight local businesses. Find an available placement in yours.

  2. Step 2
    Choose your term

    Monthly, Quarterly, or Annually — priced per city, shown before checkout.

  3. Step 3
    Reserve & go live

    Secure Stripe checkout. Your placement activates the moment your payment succeeds.

  4. Step 4
    Auto-renew or cancel

    Renews automatically at the same rate. Cancel anytime and stay live until the end of the current term.

Scarcity by design

Why only eight?

Fewer featured businesses per city means more attention per listing and a clearer signal to every diner.

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    Eight placements per city, always
    The entire feed fits on one screen.
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    No new placements. Ever
    Supply is capped forever — no dilution.
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    Every placement is equal
    All eight are peers — no hierarchy, no premium hero slot.
  • 4
    Waitlist keeps it fair
    When a placement fills, join the waitlist and get first offer when it reopens.
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For business owners

Why be Featured?

Simple, predictable, community-driven.

Permanent homepage visibility

Not buried in a feed. Front and center in your city.

Scarcity attracts attention

Only eight per city — every one gets noticed.

Fixed monthly price

The price you sign up for stays the same until you cancel.

Real analytics

Views, clicks, CTR — visible on your dashboard and card.

Guaranteed placement

Reserved is reserved. Your placement is yours for the full term.

Premium design

Cards designed to look like editorial features, not ads.

Cancel anytime

Cancel from your dashboard and stay live to term end.

Why-Visit-Today highlight

Optional. Highlight a happy hour, event, seasonal menu, or discount.

Radical transparency

Everything is public

Every placement publicly shows the data that matters.

Reservation status

Available, Reserved, or waitlist available.

Views

Cumulative and 30-day trend.

Clicks

Every outbound click, counted.

CTR

Click-through rate over time.

Featured Business

The current business is always shown.

Community reviews

Independent from paid placement.

Waitlist openings

Waitlist joins are anonymized and visible.

No hidden fees

The price you see is the price you pay.

Answers

Frequently asked

The details behind reservations, spelled out.

Ready to become one of the eight featured businesses in your city?

Pick your city, choose a term, and reserve your Featured Placement. Cancel anytime.