Case studies nobody believes.
Written by marketing, approved by legal, read by no one.
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Be the Show,
Not the Commercial.
We capture what your customers actually say: a produced day on location with a real customer, in their own words, turned into proof your marketing, sales, partnerships, and paid teams can all use.
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Your best proof is stuck in a slide deck.
Sales asks for proof. Marketing ships awareness.
Two teams, two sets of assets, no shared truth.
Paid spend without paid creative.
Paid spend behind creative that was never built for paid.
Find out where buyers lose you.
The Blueprint
The Restaurant Customer Acquisition Blueprint reviews two things: where your paid media spend is going, and whether AI answer engines can find you and describe you accurately.
Paid Media
Creative quality, audience targeting, the landing path after the click, and what each channel returns against what it costs.
What it revealsWhere buyers see you but do not act.
AI Visibility
Whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews surface your business, and what they say about you when they do.
What it revealsWhere buyers never discover you at all.
The Blueprint finds the gaps. Truth Studies, always-on storytelling, your website, and paid media close them.
One story. Every department.
What a Truth Study is
A day on location with one of your real customers. We ask better questions and we let them talk. What comes back is a full asset pack: a long-form hero video, short-form clips for paid, photography, written assets, a custom landing page, a one-page leave-behind PDF, and social quote graphics.
Most case studies belong to one department. A Truth Study belongs to the whole organization.
How a Truth Study Works- Marketing runs it.HERO + SOCIAL
- Sales sends it.PDF + CLIPS
- Partnerships opens doors with it.LANDING PAGE
- Product marketing proves the roadmap.PHOTO + GRAPHICS
- Your executives cite it.ON RECORD
Proof.
See All Proof
Trusted by the companies restaurants run on
The numbers nobody can fake.
The Receipts
Nine years of publishing, week after week. No borrowed view counts.
1,500+
Episodes published across the network since 2017
24,000
Pieces of original content
26,000
Email subscribers
2026 NRA Show Top Podcast Influencer565 tracked registrations driven · 70% first-time attendees
The biggest names in the business sit down with us.
The Guests
Tap a guest. Watch the moment.
Tap a guest
Six properties. One thesis.
Be the show, not the commercial.
We own and operate Cali BBQ.
Why brands trust us
We own and operate Cali BBQ. We help the technology companies, equipment manufacturers, suppliers, and brands that serve restaurants get found, build trust, and turn customer stories into business.
Shawn Walchef opened Cali BBQ in San Diego in 2008 and still runs it today. He grew it by treating the internet like a dining room. That philosophy, digital hospitality, became Cali BBQ Media: more than 1,500 episodes published across the network since 2017, and work featured in The Wall Street Journal, Adweek, and The New York Times.
The Book
Be the Show. The book.
Nine years of digital hospitality: the playbook behind everything on this site, becoming a book. Leave your email and you will be the first to read it.