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Food + Beverage Branding

The product is great. The brand should be too.

A storefront, a menu, a shelf—you get a second of attention before customers make a choice. Usually it’s based on appeal and gut instinct, long before the first taste. We build food and beverage brands that earn attention and loyalty: a reason to choose you, again and again. Twenty-five years in, we know how craving, atmosphere and shelf presence actually move people.

35+ food & beverage brands shaped

600+ industry awards won

Packaging built for shelf + screen

Related Work

Recent food and beverage projects.

  • Chicken Meets Rice restaurant branding case study

    Chicken Meets Rice

    Branding a growing fast-casual concept

  • Winn-Dixie grocery store marketing

    Winn-Dixie

    Year-round creative across three grocery banners

  • Eatwell Market branding on a paper grocery bag

    Eatwell Market by Schnucks

    Branding for a wellness grocery concept

Food + Beverage Capabilities

What we do for food and beverage clients.

Appetite is the job. Loyalty is the outcome.

Brands bring us in when they’re launching in a crowded category, the packaging has stopped pulling its weight or they want products to fly off the shelf. We figure out what the audiences crave, then create brand identities, websites and campaigns that pull them in.

Branding a restaurant specifically? See our award-winning restaurant branding work, or learn how our restaurant branding agency handles a full launch.

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Food + Beverage Branding

Identity that reads as delicious, long before the first taste.

Packaging Design

Design that makes your product impossible to walk past.

Website Design + Development

Turning appetite into orders with immersive websites.

Atomicdust team collaborating over project printouts

Atomicdust team walking past the studio brand wall

Testimonials

In their own words.

  • “WOW, I think City Museum’s website is the BEST ATTRACTION website I have ever seen.You so brilliantly captured the essence of this place in the brand study (which isn’t an easy thing to do) and then did an equally spectacular job of transporting that to the website. The messaging is on point, the site is clever and fun yet still easy to use, we are super pleased!”

    Traci Blanks, Parks Premier

  • “We asked Atomicdust to create new branding and a new website for our design-led architecture firm ahead of the launch of our new office in San Francisco.Mike Spakowski and Erika Cruse surpassed every expectation with edgy, artistic, inspirational designs. We can’t wait to see the impact their branding has on our new practice in the Bay Area. Atomicdust is a great firm with fantastic talent, and well worth the investment. St Louis is lucky to have them.”

    Ann Wimsatt

  • “We were incredibly fortunate to have been able to work with the Atomicdust team.Erika, Rosie, Rich, Glendon, Christen, and others who made every effort behind the scene to create this amazing website! When things were difficult, they helped us a lot with their creativity and their positive let’s-see-what-we-can-do attitude to solve issues and move forward.”

    Mimi Motobayashi

  • “The world of digital advertising can be a bit chaotic and noisy;having Atomicdust guide us through has been a great experience.”

    Rick Hensel

  • “Atomicdust is a world-class marketing agency and we’re lucky to count them as a trusted advisor to our business.AD did outstanding work helping us redefine our narrative such that it reflects exactly who we are and what we do. With the exact right language and nuance. They then took this narrative and built a stunning new website to showcase our story. AD listened to our needs, was deeply collaborative, and worked hard to ensure all the nuances we required were translated into our new public positioning. We could not be happier with our new brand and website, which consistently results in positive feedback from our clients and helps us reach prospects thanks to its crystal clear messaging and visually powerful design.”

    Geoffrey Hamlyn, COO

  • “We’ve been getting so many compliments from different people.The look and feel of the website is right on target.”

    Matt Porterfield

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FAQ

The ones we hear most.

As early as you can—ideally before the name and the lease are locked in. Most of our restaurant work is with new concepts, and the brand should help shape the menu, the space and the experience from the start. We can also help evolve the brand for an existing concept, but either way, the earlier we’re in the room, the more the brand can actually do.

Absolutely. A new restaurant or food and beverage brand needs every element to work together, from name and visual identity to menu, packaging and the website. We build it all as a single, coherent brand so the experience holds together at every step.

Yes. Packaging is where most food and beverage purchases are won or lost—at arm’s length, in about a second, before anyone’s tasted a thing. We design for the real shelf and the social feed at the same time, so the product earns the reach-and-grab in the aisle and still pops in a tiny ecommerce grid. Then the product earns the second purchase.

Food and beverage engagements range from focused brand or packaging projects (typically low- to mid-five figures) to full restaurant launches and multi-year brand partnerships that cost more. The honest answer depends on your scope. Start with a conversation about what you’re building.

Food + Beverage Thinking

Notes on winning on screens, shelves and tables.

Let’s talk food and beverage.

(Bring the samples. We’ll bring the strategy.)

Blaise Hart-Schmidt

Blaise Hart-Schmidt

Director of Marketing & Sales

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