Restaurant influencer marketing, done for you.

For chains and franchises. We find and pay food creators. $300 a video, creator's pay included.

Exhibitor at the National Restaurant Association Show 2024 and 2025

Brands of Chubby Group, which has worked with CreatoRain

  • Chubby Cattle
  • Mikiya Wagyu Shabu House
  • Chubby Don
  • NIKU X
  • Chubby Skewer
  • The X Pot
  • Chubby Tan
  • Wagyu House
  • Mr Chubby
  • HiBake
  • Chubby Curry
  • Wagyu Factory
  • Chubby Nori
A completed 2025 campaign for a wagyu hot pot and BBQ restaurant, run by CreatoRain's team: 67 creators posted 72 videos, with 174K likes. The latest videos sit beside a month-by-month list of creators, likes and videos.
CreatoRain's in-house team invites creators from its food-creator network. Each month shows who posted, their likes and the videos that came back. The picture shows sample data.
The problem

Doing it yourself repeats at every store.

In creator outreach, about 1 in 3 creators reply to a paid offer and about 1 in 7 sign on to a free-product collab, and doing it yourself repeats that at every store.

Sources: 1stCollab, creator response rates · Influencer Hero

One store, done yourself.

It starts with an inbox and three apps.

Then a sheet, payouts and influencer software.

Then a no-show, a hire to weigh, or a tool to build.

Example (invented): you, running creator marketing alone, in the middle of it all. Gmail shows 47 unread. Around you sit an Instagram message request, TikTok messages limited to mutual followers, YouTube business inquiries, a Google Sheets row marked Booked and Ghosted, a PayPal payout on hold because a W-9 is missing, GRIN's influencer software, where you fund a wallet for creator pay, and a creator visit on Thursday that was a no-show. One card weighs hiring a coordinator: the average influencer marketer salary in North America is $86,947 a year. Another, about building your own tool, notes that Instagram's Basic Display API shut down on December 4, 2024. Dashed tangles join them all, with small X marks on the TikTok limit, the sheet, the payout, the no-show and the API.

Influencer marketers spend 16 hours a week communicating with creators. Modash survey, May 2025

Now every location.

Each store gets stuck at its own step.

Or send us the list.

Your part: send locations, approve the campaign, host each visit.

Example (invented): with CreatoRain, your part is three things: send locations, approve the campaign, host each visit. One campaign card for 40 locations lists six stores with the creator visits booked and videos posted so far, and 34 more locations below. Our team finds, invites, follows up and pays the creator. Creators book their own visit. $300 a video, creator pay included.

CreatoRain helped us find the right US-based food creators across multiple cities and ran the outreach in English end-to-end. We cut our campaign costs noticeably and our marketing team got back hours every week — no more chasing email threads with creators.

Chubby Cattle 牛武士 Marketing TeamAll-you-can-eat wagyu chain
How it works

You send locations. Our team does the creator work.

Example (invented): two days of a restaurant's campaign activity log for stores in Seattle, Portland and Atlanta, with filter chips that read All 17 · You 3 · CreatoRain team 10 · Creators 4, All selected. CreatoRain's team sent invitations and follow-ups, answered a creator, agreed a rate and paid two creators. Creators replied, booked a visit and posted videos. Your three rows are adding a new Atlanta location to the running campaign, giving approval for a second campaign for a new menu, and hosting a creator's visit. A callout reads: Your part: send locations, approve the campaign, host each visit.
Your team approves the campaign and hosts each visit, while ours does the creator work.

300K+Food Creators

Network size as of September 2026, as stated by CreatoRain.

Pricing

Most routes add the creator's fee to their price. Ours includes it.

Illustrative estimate of cost per video across 24 videos, using October 2026 prices. Doing it yourself, about $440: $1 in payment fees, the $225 creator's fee and $216 of your team's time, our estimate. Marketplace, about $470: $85 for the plan and marketplace fee, the $225 creator's fee and $162 of team time. Influencer software, about $550: $161 for the subscription and handling, the $225 creator's fee and $162 of team time. Agency, about $880: $659 for the retainer and markup and the $225 creator's fee. CreatoRain, one bar of $300 with the creator's pay included, covering the creator's fee, outreach, follow-ups and paying the creator.
An illustrative estimate of cost per video across 24 videos, with your team's time shown hatched as our estimate.

Illustrative estimate, using October 2026 prices.

  1. Example case: 4 locations, 2 videos a month each, for 3 months (24 videos).
  2. Creator's fee on every route: $225 per sponsorship (Collabstr average).
  3. Do it yourself: payment fees of 2%, capped at $1 (PayPal Payouts).
  4. Marketplace: a brand plan at $1,500 a quarter, plus a 10% marketplace fee on the creator's fee.
  5. Influencer software: $15,000 a year, from Vendr buyer-reported medians for enterprise influencer software, plus 2% handling on creator payments.
  6. Agency: a $5,000 monthly retainer plus a 15% markup on the creator's fee, our assumption inside published ranges ($3,000–$25,000 a month; 10–30%).
  7. Staff time: $54.10 an hour, the BLS median wage for marketing specialists (May 2025) divided by 70.0%, the wage share of employer cost (June 2026).
  8. Assumed staff hours, our estimate, shown hatched: 4, 3, 3 and 0 a video for doing it yourself, a marketplace, influencer software and an agency.
  9. Assumption: annual contracts counted at 3 of 12 months. Billed for all 12, influencer software is ≈$1,020 a video, or ≈$450 at 240 videos.
  10. At 40 locations (240 videos), with the same retainer, plans and hours assumed: agency ≈$320 · influencer software ≈$410 · marketplace ≈$420 · doing it yourself ≈$440. CreatoRain is $300 at both sizes.
  11. Left out of every row, CreatoRain's included: the meal, hosting each visit and approving the campaign.
  12. Ad usage rights are not priced in any row.
  13. Every row counts paid creator videos. With creators paid in meals alone, doing it yourself can cost less.

What's included

Case studies

Restaurant brands that worked with CreatoRain

  • Chubby Cattle
  • NIKU X
  • Mikiya Wagyu Shabu House
  • HiBake
  • Chubby Curry
  • The X Pot
  • Wagyu House
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Frequently asked questions

How does CreatoRain work?

You send your locations. CreatoRain's in-house team builds the campaign and shortlists creators from its 300,000+ food-creator network. It sends the invitations and the follow-ups and answers each creator's questions. Each reply starts as an AI draft. By default, a person on the team reviews it before it is sent. Creators book their own visit and you host it, and every booked visit and posted video is recorded per location.

How does CreatoRain's influencer service use AI?

CreatoRain is a done-for-you restaurant influencer marketing service for chains and franchises. Its in-house team runs each campaign and uses AI for the routine work: checking whether a creator fits, and drafting invitations, follow-ups and replies. Each reply starts as an AI draft. By default, a person on the team reviews it before it is sent.

How do restaurants work with food influencers?

A restaurant invites a food creator to visit, for money, a comp meal or both. The creator posts a video about the visit. CreatoRain runs that for you. Its in-house team invites creators from its 300,000+ food-creator network and sends the follow-ups. It answers creators when they reply, and it records each visit a creator books and each video they deliver.

How do I find the right influencers for my restaurant?

CreatoRain builds the shortlist for you from its 300,000+ food-creator network. Keywords such as your cuisine and dishes come from your restaurant's website. The search finds creators who post about them. Each creator's fit is then checked. Before anyone is invited, you can ask our team to change the keywords or drop a creator.

What kind of content will influencers create?

Creators post their own photos and videos about their visit. Turn on content review in CreatoRain if you want to check each video before it's approved.

How long does it take to launch a campaign?

About as long as it takes you to check the draft. CreatoRain drafts the campaign's name and description from your restaurant's website. Once you have checked it and named the locations taking part, our team starts the campaign.

How do I track campaign performance?

Your CreatoRain campaign report shows each creator's progress and the whole campaign's: who replied, who booked a visit at which location, and which videos were submitted and approved.

How are creators paid?

Each creator is paid as agreed with them. The creator's pay is included in the price of each video and CreatoRain pays it, so you pay nothing more; the meal served on the visit comes from your own menu.

Food creators, booked and posting, at a flat price per video.

Our in-house team invites creators from our 300,000+ food-creator network. Creators book their visit in the CreatoRain app. You see the videos they send in.

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