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2022

The Taste of Independence

We helped a street food icon break up with the aggregators, moving from a rented audience to a loyal digital community.

In the heat of the kitchen, Lana Thai was thriving. But in the cold light of the digital economy, they were tenants in their own house. The brand had ceded the customer relationship to the faceless efficiency of delivery aggregators, leaving them with a disjointed identity and eroded margins. We needed to prove that a proprietary platform could be just as addictive as the apps that were eating their lunch.

Services

Brand Architecture
UI/UX Design
Local SEO
Custom Development

The Taste of Independence

We helped a street food icon break up with the aggregators, moving from a rented audience to a loyal digital community.

In the heat of the kitchen, Lana Thai was thriving. But in the cold light of the digital economy, they were tenants in their own house. The brand had ceded the customer relationship to the faceless efficiency of delivery aggregators, leaving them with a disjointed identity and eroded margins. We needed to prove that a proprietary platform could be just as addictive as the apps that were eating their lunch.

Services

Brand Architecture
UI/UX Design
Local SEO
Custom Development

Date

Feb 2022

Date

Feb 2022

Date

Feb 2022

Client

Lana Thai

Client

Lana Thai

Client

Lana Thai

Industry

Hospitality

Industry

Hospitality

Industry

Hospitality

Timeline

3 Months

Timeline

3 Months

Timeline

3 Months

The Define

The Challenge How do you persuade a hungry user to delete the middleman? Convenience is a powerful drug.

The audience was addicted to the friction-free interfaces of Silicon Valley giants, while Lana Thai’s legacy web presence felt like a static brochure from a bygone era. The challenge was not just design. It was behaviour modification. We had to build a system that offered the speed of an app with the soul of a street market, effectively reversing the flow of the digital river back to the source.

The Create

The Solution We engineered a "Direct-to-Eater" ecosystem where the user journey is shorter than a chopstick.

The visual language abandons the sterile corporate franchise look for a tactile, spicy aesthetic that celebrates the sensory chaos of Thai street food. By integrating hyper-local SEO structures, we ensured that every specific location page acts as a beacon, capturing the "near me" intent before the aggregators can even load their algorithms.

The Commit

The Process Scale is often the enemy of nuance, so we decided to treat every postcode like a flagship.

We worked intimately with the leadership team to map the friction points of the hungry, time-poor consumer across thirty locations. This wasn't about a single launch but a systematic rollout of "Hyper-Local Authority." We treated every franchise outpost as a unique digital entity, ensuring the system was robust enough to handle national traffic yet flexible enough to feel like the local favourite on the corner.

By the numbers

K Organic Visits

A loyal audience bypassing the commission fees of third-party apps.

K Organic Visits

A loyal audience bypassing the commission fees of third-party apps.

K Organic Visits

A loyal audience bypassing the commission fees of third-party apps.

% Local Intent

Capturing the "near me" market before competitors can intervene.

% Local Intent

Capturing the "near me" market before competitors can intervene.

% Local Intent

Capturing the "near me" market before competitors can intervene.

% Irish Traffic

Establishing absolute dominance in the domestic territory.

% Irish Traffic

Establishing absolute dominance in the domestic territory.

% Irish Traffic

Establishing absolute dominance in the domestic territory.