Creative Sphere Media
Client Case Study · Restaurants
Toscana Restaurant & Lounge · Arlington Heights, IL

From a local favorite to the table everyone's booking.

Authentic family Italian in Arlington Heights. We turned a great kitchen into a fully-booked dining room — and a feed that reaches half the northwest suburbs.

SEO · GBPGet Found
Photo · ReelsLook Good
Social · ReachBe Memorable
Toscana Instagram feed, rebuilt by Creative Sphere Media
25%sales growth
vs last year ↗
179
Reservations booked via Google
▲ 152.1% YoY
3,061
Google Profile interactions
▲ 26.5% YoY
359K
Facebook reel views (6 months)
▲ 3,955%
1,043
Direction requests to the door
▲ 63.2% YoY
The starting point
A great kitchen in a crowded market — doing the food right, but not getting the discovery to match.
01

A crowded table

Arlington Heights is packed with Italian spots — Francesca's Tavola, Passero, Bar Salotto. Standing out takes more than good food.

02

Great food, quiet online

The kitchen delivered every night — the digital presence didn't reflect it. The feed didn't sell the experience.

03

Booked by regulars

Reservations leaned on walk-ins and word of mouth, not new diners discovering Toscana on Google.

Get Found
Pillar 01 · Discoverability

Owning "Italian in Arlington Heights."

We built a topic-cluster SEO architecture around the dishes people actually search — homemade pasta, veal marsala, frutti di mare — optimized the Google Business Profile, and added schema so Google knows exactly what Toscana is.

  • Topic-cluster SEO: pasta, veal, seafood, catering
  • Full Google Business Profile optimization + weekly posts
  • Restaurant schema markup
  • Suburb targeting — Palatine, Rolling Meadows, Mount Prospect, Schaumburg
+152.1%
more reservations booked straight from Google
179 bookings · May ’26 vs ’25
+63.2%
more people requesting directions to the door
1,043 directions · May ’26 vs ’25
The receipts
Straight from Toscana's Google Business Profile — May 2026 vs May 2025.
179 bookings, +152.1%
Reservations · +152.1%
1,043 directions, +63.2%
Direction requests · +63.2%
3,061 interactions, +26.5%
Profile interactions · +26.5%
Look Good
Pillar 02 · Content & Craft

We made the feed taste as good as the food.

A full content overhaul — professional dish photography, scroll-stopping reels, interior storytelling, and a consistent visual identity. Same kitchen, a completely different first impression.

  • Professional dish photography & reels
  • "Toscana Restaurant Today" content series
  • Ambiance & interior storytelling
  • Consistent, on-brand visual identity

The Instagram feed · before & after Creative Sphere

Before
Toscana Instagram feed before Creative Sphere
After · with Creative Sphere
Toscana Instagram feed after Creative Sphere

Casual phone snapshots → cinematic, branded content with reels, ambiance, and a signature look.

Be Memorable
Pillar 03 · Reach & Loyalty

Reach that fills tables.

We turned Toscana's social into a discovery engine — reels that travel far beyond the regulars, growing the audience across the entire northwest suburbs.

  • Facebook & Instagram fully managed
  • High-velocity reels program
  • Audience growth across 6+ suburbs
  • Email + seasonal campaigns
Toscana Instagram profile
Live account · @toscanaarlington
359,426
Facebook reel views in six months
▲ 3,955% · reach far beyond the regulars
359,426 reel views, +3,955%
Facebook Reels · Dec–May
1,532
Instagram followers & a steadily climbing audience
+12.5% follower growth
Follower growth chart
Audience overview · trailing 6 months

Where the audience lives

Arlington Heights24.2%
Chicago, IL23.0%
Palatine, IL11.3%
Rolling Meadows10.9%
Mount Prospect8.5%
Schaumburg, IL7.7%
The bottom line

More discovery, more reels, and the number that matters: more covers.

Reservations via Google
+152%
Reel views (6 mo)
359K

Reservations more than doubled, reels reached over a third of a million people, and it showed up where it counts — at the table.

25%
sales growth vs the same period last year

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