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Ahmed Helmy

Case study Nobles Restaurant Saudi Arabia

Nobles Restaurant: digital marketing

From losing SAR 200K a month to SAR 1.2M in monthly sales.

My team reshot the dishes, built seasonal menus and wrote for diners in Saudi Arabia in their own voice. We ran ads on Google, TikTok and Snapchat with food bloggers, then linked WhatsApp orders and bookings to a chatbot and a CRM.

Nobles Restaurant facade with striped arches, Arabic signage and palm trees
Nobles Restaurant
Duration
6 months
Ad spend
SAR 150K
Channels
Meta · TikTok · Snap · Google
Country
Saudi Arabia

The numbers

Project results

4.9X ROAS

Revenue impact in 6 months
SAR 7M+
TikTok views from influencer campaigns
18M
Sales after the influencer campaigns
+65%

Before and after

The numbers before and after the work

BEFORE −200K SAR lost every month before the work began
AFTER SAR 1.2M Monthly sales

What we did

Designs and screens from the project

  • Marketing and ad plan
  • Ads on Google Ads, TikTok and Snapchat
  • Email for company events and catering
  • Campaigns with food bloggers and influencers
  • WhatsApp campaigns, photos and video
  • WhatsApp orders and bookings linked to a chatbot and a CRM

The full story

Where the restaurant stood

When I started with Nobles Restaurant in Riyadh, it was losing more than SAR 200,000 a month. The food and the service were good. The marketing did not bring a steady flow of customers, and the restaurant was weak online.

Riyadh’s restaurant market is crowded with established brands, and the money spent on marketing returned little. We set one target: monthly sales of SAR 1.2 million.

I have worked with Nobles for more than two years. The figures in this case cover six months of that work.

What we did, in order

1. A plan before any ad

I studied the competitors and the gaps in the market. Then I wrote a marketing and ad plan to bring people to the restaurant and to its pages online.

2. New photos and seasonal menus

My team reshot the dishes and built seasonal menus. We wrote the copy the way diners in Saudi Arabia talk.

3. Ads on Google, TikTok and Snapchat

I designed targeted campaigns on Google Ads, TikTok and Snapchat, and tracked ad spend against sales. These screenshots come from the ad accounts.

Nobles Restaurant Google Ads campaigns, September 2023 to January 2024
Nobles Restaurant Snapchat Ads campaigns
Nobles Restaurant Google Ads overview, May 2024 to January 2025
Nobles Restaurant TikTok Ads campaigns, May 2024 to January 2025

4. Food bloggers and influencers

We partnered with food bloggers and lifestyle influencers in Riyadh. They showed the dishes, the venue and the catering to their followers.

5. Email for events and catering

Email grew a second line of sales: events and catering for companies. We sent targeted offers to corporate clients, event planners and private hosts, and followed up with each one. Bookings rose for business events, weddings and private parties, but I have no figure for that.

Nobles Restaurant email and landing page design in Arabic: dishes, venue and offers

6. WhatsApp orders linked to a CRM

We ran WhatsApp campaigns, then linked WhatsApp orders and reservations to a chatbot and a CRM. Replies got faster and repeat orders went up. I have no figure for either, so they are not in the list below.

The result

  • Monthly sales: SAR 1.2 million, the target we set, where the restaurant had been losing money every month.
  • ROAS 4.9X: SAR 4.9 in sales for every riyal spent on ads.
  • Revenue impact: more than SAR 7 million in 6 months.
  • Ad spend: SAR 150K.
  • Influencers: 18 million views on TikTok, and sales up 65% after the campaigns.

What to take from it

Ads bring people to the door. The photos, the menu and the speed of the reply decide whether they order, so fix those before you raise the budget.

If your restaurant gets messages but not enough orders, send me your monthly sales and ad spend. I will tell you what I would fix first.

Sources: Case study on this site · 2026 executive portfolio

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