Write for Us Restaurant: Restaurant Blog Guest Post Guidelines

Most restaurant pitches are lists of marketing ideas any cafe could have written. What this blog wants is the view from the pass and the floor: how an owner filled the quiet weekday lunches without discounting, how a manager cut no shows on Saturday nights, how a small kitchen rewrote its menu so new staff could cook it on their first shift.

My readers are business owners, founders and freelancers, and plenty of them run a cafe, a bar or a restaurant. They already read my guides to ChatGPT prompts for writing restaurant menus and AI tools that handle restaurant bookings. A restaurant post has to help them run a busier, calmer service.

60-second restaurant guest post check

A strong submission can answer yes to all five points:

• Do you own, manage or cook in a restaurant, or advise restaurants yourself
• Can you explain one change with the reason behind it and what happened next
• Does your opening answer the reader's question in the first two lines
• Would an owner know what to try at their next service after reading it
• Have you removed any sales pitch for one booking, ordering or delivery system

Read the guidelines and submit your guest post.

What we publish

• Filling quiet services without giving the food away
• Bookings, walk ins and cutting no shows
• Menus that sell and that the kitchen can deliver
• Hiring, training and keeping front of house and kitchen staff
• Local marketing, reviews and social media for restaurants
• Opening a first restaurant, cafe or bar: what nobody tells you
• Running delivery and takeaway alongside the dining room
• Using AI and software in a restaurant without slowing service

If your post could be published on any restaurant site with the logo swapped, it is not for us.

What we look for in restaurant posts

These are the restaurant topics that land, and the version of each that gets turned down.

Topic	What gets accepted	What gets declined
Quiet services	What you tried to fill them and what worked	A list of promotion ideas with no results
Bookings	The policy or tool change that cut no shows	A review of one booking app written by its reseller
Menus	How you changed a menu and why	A recipe with no business lesson
Staff	How you hired, trained or kept a team	Complaints about how hard it is to find people
Reviews and local marketing	A real reply or campaign and what it changed	Tips copied from a generic marketing blog

What we don't accept

• Recipe roundups or food reviews
• Posts written to sell one booking, ordering or delivery system
• Generic marketing ideas with no restaurant experience behind them
• Thin posts under 800 words with no first hand experience
• Previously published posts republished from another site

What you get

• Your article in front of an engaged audience of business owners, marketers and founders
• One relevant, contextual link back to your own site
• A byline and the credibility of an established, high-traffic blog
• Editorial help to make the piece as strong as it can be before it goes live

How to submit

Send your pitch or draft through the contact form. Include the topic, the one specific problem the post solves, and a line on your first-hand experience with it. One idea per pitch works best. You will hear back on whether it is a fit before you write the full draft.

What a strong restaurant pitch looks like

A weak pitch says "I want to write about ten ways to market your restaurant." A strong one says "I run a forty cover neighbourhood bistro, and I want to show how we filled Tuesday and Wednesday nights with a regulars list and a fixed supper club, what we tried first that failed, and what it did to the team." One is a brochure. The other is worth reading.

The angles that get accepted fastest

• How you filled the quietest night of the week
• The booking rule that cut no shows
• Rewriting a menu so the kitchen can keep up
• Keeping good staff through a hard season
• Answering bad reviews without making it worse
• What opening your first place taught you
• Deciding whether delivery is worth the hassle
• One piece of software that made service easier

Looking for more places to pitch? The sites that accept guest posts page helps you build a shortlist, and these guest post examples show what editors say yes to.

Frequently asked questions

Does Lilach Bullock accept restaurant guest posts?

Yes. Restaurant guest posts are welcome from owners, chefs, general managers and hospitality consultants who can share a real decision from running a restaurant, cafe or bar. We publish practical, experience led articles and decline recipe roundups and system promotion.

What restaurant topics do you accept?

Filling quiet services, bookings and no shows, menus, hiring and keeping staff, reviews and local marketing, opening a first venue, delivery and takeaway, and using AI and software in service. The common thread is a lesson another owner can use.

Do you accept food and recipe guest posts too?

Food, cooking and kitchen posts suit the food, cooking and kitchen pages better. This page is for the business of running a restaurant. Every pitch reaches the same editor, so send the one you have.

How long should a guest post be?

Most accepted posts run between 1,200 and 2,000 words. Length matters less than usefulness: a tight 1,200 word post with one clear lesson beats a 3,000 word overview every time. Use short paragraphs, clear subheadings and at least one real example.

Can I include a link back to my own site?

One contextual link back to your own site is fine when it is relevant and helps the reader. Posts written purely to build a backlink with no real value for the reader are not published.

Do you accept previously published content?

No. Every submission must be original and not published anywhere else first, including your own blog, Medium, LinkedIn or a guest slot on another site. Republished or lightly reworded content gets declined, and we check before anything goes live.

Can I use AI tools to help write my guest post?

You can use AI to help with research or tidying your draft, but the experience, examples and opinions must be yours. Posts that read like generic AI output, with no first-hand detail, are declined.

Do you accept sponsored or commercial partnerships?

Commercial and partnership enquiries are handled separately from editorial guest posts. If you are a brand or agency wanting to work together rather than pitch an article, say so in the contact form and you will get the right details back.

How long does a decision take?

We aim to come back to you within a few working days. If the pitch is specific and clearly written, with the result in the first line, the decision is much faster.

Do you edit guest posts before they go live?

Yes. Every accepted post gets an editorial pass for clarity, structure and accuracy, and you may be asked for an extra example or a missing number. The aim is to make your piece as useful as it can be, not to change your voice.

Can I pitch more than one idea?

Yes, but send them one at a time or as a short numbered list with one line each. The strongest pitch goes first, and a single clear idea with a real result almost always beats several vague ones.

How do I submit a restaurant guest post?

Send your pitch through the contact form with the topic, the specific result or lesson you will cover, and a line on your own experience running, managing or cooking in a restaurant. One idea per pitch works best, and you will hear back before you write the full draft.

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