Hospitality creative · Social · Digital · Consultancy
Social media, artwork, campaigns, websites, apps and brand concepts for hospitality operators — run by people who have worked the floor, not just the deck.
What you can use us for
Day-to-day channel ownership: planning, posting, captions, community replies and reporting.
Menus, posters, signage, print and digital artwork produced to a consistent house style.
Launches, seasonal pushes, events and offers built to fill covers on the quiet days.
Fast, bookable venue sites that read well on a phone at the door.
Product and tooling builds where a venue or group needs more than a website.
New venue identities and repositioning work, from name and tone through to rollout.
Operator-level input on offer, pricing, service and commercial decisions.
Monthly packages
Every package pairs creative delivery with a consultancy allowance, so you get operator input alongside the work. Scope and terms are agreed before we start.
A consistent, well-made social presence, planned and posted every month.
£595per month
Creative delivery
Operator consultancy
Social, design and campaigns working together to drive trade.
£1,095per month
Creative delivery
Operator consultancy
A full creative department alongside senior operator input.
£1,895per month
Creative delivery
Operator consultancy
Standalone consultancy
A focused session on a specific commercial or creative problem, with clear next actions.
£350
On-site review of the venue, offer and customer journey, written up with recommendations.
£750
A full day working on concept, positioning and creative direction for a new or changing site.
£1,250
Regular operator-level advisory support alongside your own team.
From £650per month
Selected work
Brand · E-commerce · Product presentation
Product design · Interface · Front-end build
Why The Foundry
Jack Hardy's founder and operator experience: one independent venue built without external investment into a four-site hospitality group with approximately £2 million combined annual turnover, grown and exited within five years. Not a Foundry client project.
The Foundry is built on almost two decades inside hospitality — not looking in from the sidelines.
Founder Jack Hardy worked from the floor up before bootstrapping a single independent venue into a four-site hospitality group. He remains an active hospitality operator today.
That means creative decisions are tested against what guests respond to, what teams can deliver and what makes commercial sense.
Starting with one independent venue, Jack built and operated the business without external investment, expanding it into a four-site hospitality group with approximately £2 million in combined annual turnover. The group was grown and exited within a five-year period.
That experience covered concept development, branding, venue launches, marketing, team building, commercial growth and day-to-day operations. It now shapes how The Foundry approaches creative and consultancy work for hospitality businesses.
The work is judged commercially. Content should bring guests through the door. Artwork has to hold up across real venue formats — printed on a menu, mounted at the door and shot on a phone. Campaigns should land in the trading periods that need filling.
The consultancy is grounded in genuine operational experience. When you ask about pricing, offer, service flow or how to launch a site, the answer comes from someone who has made those calls with a team on the floor.
Day-to-day creative delivery stays central. Strategy is included — it is not the product.
Hospitality experience
Across his hospitality career, Foundry founder Jack Hardy has worked with brands and groups including REKOM, Revolution Bars, Stonegate Group, Bloom Cocktail Bars, The Deltic Group, Intertain Group and Club LIV.
That experience spans large-scale late-night operations, independent concepts, multi-venue groups and customer-facing hospitality brands. It gives The Foundry a practical understanding of how different operators structure their venues, campaigns, teams and guest experiences.
These organisations form part of Jack Hardy's previous career experience and are not presented as current clients of The Foundry. All trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.
FAQ
Insights
Practical guides on what hospitality marketing costs, how to plan a trading quarter and what a venue website has to do. Browse them all in Insights.
In our experience, managed hospitality social media support is commonly quoted from roughly £400 to £2,000+ per month, depending on the number of platforms, content volume, filming requirements and level of strategic support. The Foundry's own packages run from £595 to £1,895 per month.
Start from your trading pattern rather than the content: mark the weeks that need filling, assign one commercial job to each, then build the content, artwork and channel activity backwards from those dates.
A venue website converts when a visitor on a phone can answer four questions in seconds — what is this, is it right for tonight, can I get a table, and where is it — and reach the booking step in one tap from anywhere on the site.
Contact
Send the basics and we'll come back with a recommended package or a scoped project — no long discovery process before you get an answer.
Prefer email? jackhardy1@live.com
