Cafe Florian at Crowne Plaza Foster City

Crowne Plaza Foster City relaunched its Sunday brunch with a brand-new social media presence and a mission to create buzz. Today, it's one of the Bay Area's most viral brunch destinations.
Objective
To shift from traditional marketing to influencer-driven content by inviting creators to experience the re-launched Sunday Champagne Seafood Brunch and hotel stay to attract new leisure travelers and local food enthusiasts through authentic, first-person perspective content.
Strategy
Leveraged Instagram and TikTok to drive visibility through immersive visuals, influencer storytelling, and content that spark local engagement around the Sunday brunch and hotel experience.

Brunch Buzz at Crowne Plaza Foster City-San Mateo

For over 2.5 years, Crowne Plaza Foster City has used Evolusen to attract and vet authentic travel, lifestyle, and food influencers whose audiences align with the hotel’s offerings. For this campaign, the property utilized Evolusen’s platform to receive influencer applications, review their profiles, and invite selected creators to experience the re-launched Sunday Champagne Seafood Brunch at Café Florian and hotel experience. By streamlining influencer selection and providing performance tracking, Evolusen enabled the team to generate genuine content and social buzz, helping establish the hotel as one of the Bay Area’s top viral brunch spots.

The always-on campaign led to over 5,100 new Instagram followers—a 1,020% increase—and four price increases due to surging demand.

Sample Posts:

392

Total In-feed Posts and Stories Published

5.66M

Impressions Generated

4.3M

Potential Guests Reached

227.4k

Saved & Shared

$1.26M

Estimated Media Value Earned

What Guests are Saying:

"this viral AYCE brunch spot has been ALL over my feed!"
"got influenced by IG & Tiktok influencers and wanted to try this buffet because it looked good."
"My husband surprised me for my bday to have brunch here because I tagged him on an Instagram reel because it had seafood and I love seafood"
"My husband and brother-in-law found out about this place via a Bay Area foodie Instagram Reel, it was extremely difficult to get a reservation if you have a party larger than 6"

Client Testimonial:

"Evolusen has been a useful tool to successfully execute Influencer Marketing for my property. Their team made the onboarding process very easy. The benefit of having Influencers write a review on our property is they give a first-hand experience of our product. We used to do newspaper print marketing, but to reach a different demographic, we turned to Evolusen as the expert to help me adapt to the always-changing market. Thanks for everything." Enree Smith, General Manager at Crowne Plaza Foster City - San Mateo

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