Eat With Sam K
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Eat With Sam K is built around one thing: helping people figure out where to eat next. I make short-form food video, and I make it for brands too.
Every review on this site is still 100% honest, I pay for every meal myself, and that never changes. Paid work is a separate, clearly-labeled thing: a way for restaurants and food-adjacent brands to get in front of my audience, or to get content for their own, not a way to buy a rating.
The Latest Numbers
📅 September 2026 snapshot. Updated monthly, ask directly for the most current numbers.
📄 Download September 2026 Recap (PDF)Ways to Work Together
Four ways brands usually work with me. UGC is the big one, so it has its own section below.
📸 UGC Content
Video and photo shot for you, to run on your channels and in your ads. Nothing gets posted on my accounts unless you want it to. See what I shoot below →
🎥 Sponsored Features
A dedicated video posted to my Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts, shot and edited in the same style as my regular content and clearly labeled as a paid partnership.
📢 Guide Page Ads
An ad placement on one of my guides, pages people come back to and share long after they're published. This is ad space only: it never affects where anyone ranks, and my ranked lists stay unranked-for-sale. Since restaurants are what's being reviewed on those pages, this tends to fit non-restaurant brands (delivery apps, reservation platforms, credit cards, other food-adjacent businesses) better than it fits restaurants.
✨ Something Else in Mind?
Newsletter mentions, event coverage, or anything else, happy to hear the idea and figure out if it's a fit.
📸 UGC Content
UGC (user-generated content) is video and photo I shoot for your brand, that you own and post yourself. It's made to look like a real person recommending you, not a polished commercial, because that's what performs on Instagram, TikTok, and paid social right now.
You get the files. Run them on your own channels, cut them into ads, put them on your website. I don't have to post any of it.
🍽️ What I Shoot
- Vertical short-form video for Reels, TikTok, Shorts, and paid social
- Food and product close-ups, menu highlights, reactions, unboxings
- Restaurant and hospitality atmosphere, drinks, venues, destinations
- Hooks, concepts, scripts, voiceover, and testable creative angles
- Social-ready photography, plus raw footage and alternate cuts
Packages
🎬 One-Time Content Packages
A single shoot, delivered as edited vertical videos you own outright. Sized from one video for testing a concept, up to a multi-video batch when you want a set of angles to run against each other. Raw footage and alternate cuts can come with it.
🔁 Ongoing Monthly Partnerships
A set number of videos every month, so you always have fresh creative in rotation instead of reshooting from scratch each time. Best if you're running paid social continuously or posting on a schedule.
✨ Add-Ons
Extra videos and hooks, photography, voiceover, on-camera talent, scriptwriting, product demos, extra shoot sessions, event coverage, travel, rush turnaround, paid ad usage, whitelisting, and extended licensing.
Every package is built around the goal rather than a fixed menu, so the mix, the volume, and the licensing all flex. Tell me what you're trying to do and I'll put together what fits. Email me or DM me on Instagram and we'll connect.
Examples of My Work
Five different UGC formats: a captioned product demo, a piece to camera, a restaurant spotlight for Thai Samurai, and two ways of selling one product, a Tennessee Vols Frost Buddy. Tap any of them to watch.
Product Demo
A short, caption-led demo of a product in hand, cut for Reels and TikTok.
On-Camera Product Demo
A straight piece to camera against a clean backdrop, the format for talking through a product and its features.
Restaurant Spotlight
Thai Samurai in River North, Nashville. Opens on the storefront at night and sells it as the city's newest Thai spot.
Lifestyle B-Roll
No talking, just the product out in real life: cornhole, the pool, the pool table, the grill and a rooftop.
On-Camera Demo
I introduce it to camera, show it fitting a 20 oz soda bottle, then take it around town and close on a discount code.
More on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, or browse every place I've rated in my reviews.
Past Partnerships
🤝 No paid partnerships yet. You'd be the first.
I'd rather start this section with real collaborations than placeholder logos. Once a sponsored feature or guide ad goes live, it'll show up here with a link to the actual content.
Keeping It Honest
Any sponsored feature or guide ad is always clearly labeled as a paid partnership. UGC is promotional content made for a brand and is separate from my independent reviews. My rankings, ratings, and Sam Scores are never for sale, and no ad ever changes where a restaurant lands in a guide.
Get In Touch
For rates, availability, or just to talk through an idea, the fastest way to reach me is a DM on Instagram or an email to hello@eatwithsamk.com.