The food was the easy part. Getting found wasn’t.
How a Lake Como restaurant turned Google Maps into a steady stream of new covers, without spending a cent on ads.
Olive & Ember
Olive & Ember is a family-run restaurant on the shore of Lake Como, the kind of place regulars love and newcomers struggle to find.
The food earned the reviews. But on Google Maps the chains and the delivery apps sat on top, and every empty table on a Friday was a guest who simply searched and never saw them.
Great food. Empty tables.
Someone nearby searches “best dinner near me.” Olive & Ember wasn’t in the top results. The chains were, and so were the delivery apps taking a cut of every order. The dining room lived and died on foot traffic and regulars, and slow nights had no backstop.
What Leapfy did
No access to their Google profile. No ad spend. Just the local engagement Google’s map pack rewards, pointed at the searches that fill tables.
Mapped the searches that fill tables
The queries a hungry local actually types: “restaurant near me,” “best dinner como,” “date night restaurant near me.”
Built real, local engagement
Authentic local activity, the exact signals the map pack weighs, aimed at those keywords. No profile access, no paid ads, nothing that risks the listing.
Let the flywheel run
Higher rank brought more diners. More diners brought more reviews. More reviews pushed the rank higher still.
Watch the map turn green.
Each pin is a spot on the Como map where someone searches. Red means buried, green means top three. This is the same geo-grid we track for every client.
Six weeks, served.
The numbers behind Olive & Ember’s climb up the Como map pack.
“Friday nights book out now. People find us on Maps before they even know our name.”
More maps we turned green.
Different industry, same climb to the top of the map pack.
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