Digital Marketing Singapore
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Case Study | Content Creation

Catering Company Content Creation Services Singapore: Orders From Social Up 175% in 6 Months

Client Type
Corporate and event caterer, buffets and bento sets from a central kitchen, about 80 staff, Singapore
Services
Content creation: posts, carousels, graphics and short clips, plus templates. The client's own team publishes everything
Engagement
6 months
Primary Result
Confirmed catering orders from social up from 4 to 11 a month
36Ready-to-post assets delivered every month
9 hrsSaved each week for the client's marketing executive
+175%Confirmed orders from social media

Client name withheld under NDA.

The Challenge

The Starting Point

Catering in Singapore is booked by office admins, HR teams and families planning a party, often at short notice and often from a phone. Searches for catering singapore are crowded, so many buyers shortlist caterers on Instagram and Facebook, where they can see the food, the setup and how recently the business has posted. A caterer with dull or irregular social content looks smaller and less reliable than it is, even when the food is good.

This caterer ran a busy central kitchen and had one marketing executive handling social media alongside events and enquiries. She was spending about 14 hours a week making posts from phone photos in a design app, and still managed only 6 posts a month. There were no templates, so every post looked different. Engagement sat at 0.9%, social brought in about 9 enquiries a month, and around 4 of them became confirmed orders. The owner did not want to hand over the accounts. The team knew their customers and wanted to keep posting and replying themselves. What they lacked was a steady supply of good content.

MetricMonth 0
Ready-to-post assets delivered per month0
Editable templates in the client's design tool0
Hours a week spent making content in-house14
Posts published per month by the client's team6
Engagement rate, Instagram and Facebook0.9%
Enquiries via social per month9
Confirmed catering orders from social per month4
What We Did

What We Did

Phase 1, Month 1

Content Pillars Built on What Buyers Ask

We read three months of the caterer's DMs and enquiry emails and sorted the questions. Buyers wanted to know how much food to order per person, how long setup takes, which dietary needs could be covered and what the buffet would actually look like on the table. We turned that into four content pillars: the food, the setup at real events, the kitchen behind it, and planning help such as a carousel on how many trays a 50-person lunch needs.

Content that answers a buyer's question gets saved and shared inside offices. Pretty food shots alone get a like. The pillars kept every asset tied to something a customer was trying to decide.

Phase 2, Months 1 to 2

A Template System the Team Could Use

We built 28 editable templates in the client's design tool: menu cards, price-per-person highlights, festive menu announcements, customer quote cards, carousel frames and story frames, all in the brand's colours and fonts. We ran a one-hour session with the marketing executive so she could make quick posts herself, such as a same-week menu change, without starting from scratch.

Templates are what made the time savings stick. The executive could produce a post in ten minutes instead of an hour, and everything looked like it came from the same business.

Phase 3, Months 2 to 6

A Monthly Half-Day Shoot and 36 Assets

Each month we spent half a day in the central kitchen and at one live event setup, with the client's permission and with no guests' faces shown. From each shoot we delivered 36 assets: 12 single-image posts, 6 carousels, 8 short clips and 10 stories, all edited, sized for each platform and named by date. Festive menus for Chinese New Year, Hari Raya, Deepavali and year-end parties were shot early, so the posts were ready before office admins started planning.

Planning around the festive calendar mattered most. Corporate buyers book year-end and Chinese New Year catering weeks ahead, and the content was out in time to catch them.

Phase 4, Months 2 to 6

A Content Pack the Client Posts Themselves

Every month the assets arrived as one pack with a suggested posting calendar, captions, hashtags and the best times to post based on the previous month's data. The client's team scheduled and published everything and handled every reply. We never logged into the accounts. If they wanted us to post as well, that would have been social media management, which this client chose not to buy.

This split suited the business. The executive kept control of the brand voice and the conversations, which often turned into orders, while we handled the part that had been eating her week.

Phase 5, Months 3 to 6

Reviewing What Brought In Enquiries

At the end of each month we looked at which assets drove saves, shares and DMs, and adjusted the next pack. Planning carousels and short clips of a buffet being set up outperformed single food shots, so the mix shifted towards them. Posts showing the price per person brought in more qualified enquiries than posts without it.

Good content creation services should get sharper each month. The review loop meant the client got more of what worked, not just more content.

The Results

The Results

By Month 6 the client was receiving 36 ready-to-post assets a month and had 28 templates for quick posts. The marketing executive's time on content fell from about 14 hours a week to 5, and the team published 20 posts a month instead of 6. Engagement rose from 0.9% to 3.4%. Enquiries via social grew from 9 to 21 a month, and confirmed catering orders from social rose from 4 to 11 a month.

MetricBaselineMonth 6Change
Ready-to-post assets delivered per month036+36
Editable templates in the client's design tool028+28
Hours a week spent making content in-house145-64%
Posts published per month by the client's team620+233%
Engagement rate, Instagram and Facebook0.9%3.4%+2.5 pts
Enquiries via social per month921+133%
Confirmed catering orders from social per month411+175%

Month 0 is the month before work started. Engagement from Meta Business Suite, enquiries from DMs and the link-in-bio form, orders matched in the client's order system by source.

Months 1 to 2
Pillars and templates

Buyer questions sorted into 4 pillars, 28 templates built, team trained.

Months 3 to 4
Shoots and packs

Monthly shoots and content packs running. Enquiries via social reached 15 a month by Month 4.

Months 5 to 6
Festive season

Year-end content out early, mix shifted to carousels and clips. Orders from social reached 11 a month.

Key Takeaways

What We Learned

You can keep your accounts and still get great content

If you run a catering or F&B business in Singapore, you do not have to hand over your social media to fix it. Having content made for you while your team posts and replies keeps your voice and frees their time.

Answer the planner's question, not just show the food

Office admins want to know how much to order and how setup works. Content that answers those questions gets shared inside companies and brings in better enquiries.

Shoot festive content before the festive season

Corporate catering for year-end and Chinese New Year is booked weeks ahead. Content that is ready early catches the planners when they are deciding.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

With content creation we make the posts, carousels, graphics and clips, and your team publishes them and handles replies. With social media management we also post, reply and run the accounts. This caterer chose content creation because the team wanted to keep the conversations in-house.
It depends on how often you can post and on how many platforms. This client used 36 assets a month across Instagram and Facebook, including stories. A smaller business can start with 15 to 20 and add more once a routine is in place.
Not always, but it helps for food. A half-day shoot each month gave this caterer fresh, consistent visuals, and the templates covered quick updates in between. Some clients alternate shoots with their own phone footage, edited by us.
Expect engagement to improve within the first two months and enquiries to follow from Month 3 or 4. Orders here climbed most in Months 5 and 6, helped by festive content going out early.

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