Close-up of a margherita pizza with steam rising, shot for a restaurant reel

NYONIC/Restaurant video production

Fork & Frame — For restaurants

Your best dish,
in motion.

You already have hundreds of food photos on your phone. Fork & Frame turns them into short vertical films — steam moving, cheese pulling, condensation running — ready to post to Reels and TikTok in 48 hours. Your real food. Never a stock shot.

Call (585) 524-8976 Or email me →

A still photo of hot food looks like cold food.

The thing that makes a dish sell is motion. Steam coming off it, cheese stretching, a sauce still moving on the plate. A still photo throws all of that away, which is why the same burger that empties your kitchen on a Friday night gets forty views as a photo.

The platforms know this too. Reels and TikTok push video and bury photos, so a restaurant posting stills is fighting the algorithm with one hand tied.

Hiring a crew to shoot a food video runs well over a thousand dollars and needs a closed dining room. I work from the photos you already took on your phone. No shoot day, no closing early, no food styled until it is inedible.

A stacked cheeseburger photographed in warm diner light
A still frame — the motion is what sells it

How it works

Three steps, no shoot day.

Send what you have

A phone photo is enough. No shoot day, no shipping, no brief template.

I produce

Modern tooling, a human eye, twenty years of commercial taste. Nothing ships unreviewed.

You ship it

Revisions included. Most work back in 24–48 hours.

What you get

  • Vertical 9:16 clips sized for Reels, TikTok and Stories — no letterboxing, no cropping your food out of frame
  • 5 to 8 seconds per clip, which is the length that actually holds through a scroll
  • Motion that matches the dish: steam on hot food, condensation on cold drinks, a slow push on a plated entrée
  • Your real menu items, shot in your kitchen, not a stock library
  • Clips delivered as plain MP4 files you own outright — post them, boost them, put them on your website
  • One revision round per clip; 48-hour turnaround

Demo dishes, produced in-studio. Client work is always built from your real food photos.

Pricing

What it costs.

First video
$149
one dish, one revision

A single clip so you can see how it performs on your own account before committing to more.

Monthly
$449
four videos per month

One a week, which is the cadence that actually moves a restaurant account. Works out to $112 a clip.

First sample
Free
one dish, no card

Text me a photo of one dish. I will animate it and send it back. If it does not look good, you have lost nothing.

Questions

Before you get in touch.

What kind of photo do you need?

A clear, well-lit shot of the finished dish, taken straight on or at a slight angle. The photos you already post to Instagram are almost always good enough. Bad phone-flash photos in a dark dining room are the one thing that does not work — daylight near a window is ideal.

Is this stock footage?

No. Every clip starts from a photo of your actual food. That is the whole point — a customer who orders the burger should get the burger they saw. I will not sell you a video of someone else's kitchen.

How is this different from just posting the photo?

Video gets pushed to people who do not follow you yet; photos mostly reach people who already do. If you are trying to reach new customers in Rochester, that difference is the entire game.

Do you write captions or handle posting?

Not as standard — you get the files and post them yourself, which keeps this cheap. If you want captions, on-screen text or someone running the account, tell me and I will quote it separately.

Can you do drinks and desserts too?

Yes. Cocktails and desserts are some of the best material for this because condensation, pours and melting all read strongly in motion.

What if the clip does not look right?

One revision per clip is included. Tell me what is off — too fast, too much steam, wrong crop — and I will redo it.

Send me one dish.

Text or email a photo of something off your menu. I will animate it and send it back free, so you can see it before you spend anything.

(585) 524-8976

or jason@nyonic.com

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