Social Cat for Restaurants vs. Remy: Pricing, Workflow, Rights, and Reporting
Social Cat vs. Remy for restaurants: compare pricing, sourcing, owner work, files, ad rights, repeat use, and reporting before you buy.
Social Cat is a self-service marketplace for gifted, paid, or affiliate collaborations across several kinds of brands. Remy is restaurant-specific software that recruits local food influencers and manages booking, reminders, follow-up, and file collection without a per-influencer software charge.
The gap between the entry prices does not settle the choice. You are deciding whether to search and manage collaborations inside a broad marketplace or pay for a restaurant visit manager that helps you build direct relationships. If you are still choosing the type of program rather than these two products, start with influencer marketing for restaurants.
| What you need to know | Social Cat | Remy |
|---|---|---|
| Business model | Self-service marketplace for gifted, paid, and affiliate collaborations across several kinds of brands; it publishes restaurant and food-influencer directories. | Restaurant software that recruits interested local food influencers with an ad and manages the work after they apply. |
| Pricing | The US page captured September 2, 2026 listed $99, $199, and $299 monthly plans. Confirm checkout currency and tax. | $300/month per location ($150 Remy + $150 creator recruitment ads). Influencers are not metered. |
| What the plan limits | Respectively, 5, 15, or 30 collaborations; 1,000, 2,500, or 5,000 invitations; and 1, 3, or unlimited campaigns per month. A collaboration slot is capacity, not guaranteed finished content. | No per-influencer software limit. Set the application and approval target in writing; the limit is not a promised result. |
| Billing | Month to month with a seven-day trial; it auto-renews. Cancellation takes effect after the paid period, with no partial-period refund unless law requires one. Annual billing advertises two months free, but the captured page did not show annual totals. | Monthly per location. Ask how cancellation timing, refunds, and post-cancellation software access work. |
| How influencers are found | Publish a public campaign for applications, or search and privately invite people using filters that include place, niche, demographics, and follower count. | One local recruitment ad shows food influencers one written restaurant offer; interested people apply to those terms. |
| Owner work | Your team reviews applicants, sends invitations, messages matches, and agrees on the contract. Confirm who handles restaurant booking, reminders, arrival instructions, no-shows, and the staff handoff. | You approve people, set the offer and availability, judge the content, and handle exceptions; Remy handles booking, texts, reminders, follow-up, and file collection. |
| Working with the same person again | You can save and invite someone later, but a new contract with the same influencer requires another campaign invitation. Communications for matched work must stay on-platform; confirm direct rebooking and contact export. | The model is built around direct restaurant-influencer relationships that can be used again, with no new per-influencer software charge. Confirm the account-data export format before buying. |
| Files | Delivered finished content can be downloaded from the Content Library. Public documents do not require raw footage, B-roll, source files, or editable project files, so put each required file in the contract. | The written offer can require finished content and raw footage, and Remy manages file collection. “Complete” should mean every promised file arrived after the visit. |
| Copyright and restaurant-account ads | The influencer keeps copyright. Social Cat’s Terms grant the brand a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive license that includes organic use, editing, derivative works, and paid ads from brand-owned channels. | The influencer keeps copyright, while Remy holds a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to partnership content and raw footage. Confirm the restaurant’s own permitted uses in the written terms. |
| Ads from the influencer’s account | Social Cat defines this as separate whitelisting and offers it in managed service. Its reviewed self-service pages do not say that account permission is included, so confirm it separately. | Permission from the influencer is separately required when an ad will run from that person’s account. The actual-paid-ad-use bonus is a payment trigger, not that permission. |
| Organic posting | Contract fields can specify content type, deadline, fee, and additional deliverables. The agreement, not the plan limit, decides what gets posted. | Put the post, deadline, tags, disclosure, files, and other deliverables in the written offer. Remy follows up and collects the agreed files; it does not guarantee views or customers. |
| Geography | Public pages list the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. They do not prove reachable restaurant-specific supply in every city. | Recruiting is run for your restaurant’s market. Set the target radius and ask how a thin local applicant pool is handled. |
| What the reporting shows | Social Cat advertises impressions, engagement, reach, and an AI-generated ROI estimate. Its public documents give different descriptions of the reporting, so ask to see the current report and how the estimate is calculated. | Remy tracks the influencer program itself. Restaurants using the broader Feast platform can also connect marketing to POS sales; that broader capability should not be presented as a Remy-only result. |
| What remains after cancellation | Public help and the July 2026 Terms conflict. Export first; confirm the governing rule. | The direct relationship is the point of the model. Confirm contact, message, file, and history exports plus post-cancellation software access in the current agreement. |
Social Cat buys marketplace capacity; Remy buys restaurant coordination
Social Cat’s entry plan is less expensive before variable costs, and it gives a small team two useful ways to find people: accept public applications or search and invite them. Its Inbox, status tracking, contracts, and Content Library can keep a general collaboration from living across loose DMs and folders. Influencer cash compensation is negotiated directly, Social Cat does not process it, and the brand supplies the agreed product/service.
The tradeoff is that its published limits count collaborations, invitations, and campaigns—not booked restaurant visits or delivered videos. Social Cat says a typical collaboration expects one piece of content, while more pieces depend on the agreement. A restaurant must still define the arrival, meal, staff instructions, no-show treatment, posting, and file handoff.
Remy starts from that restaurant visit. A local recruitment ad shows one written offer, interested food influencers apply, you approve the people you want, and the software handles the repeated booking and follow-up work. That is why its monthly price is paired with recruitment spend rather than a collaboration allowance.
The subscription is only part of the price. Compare the hosted meal, any cash compensation, recruitment spend, advertising rights, and the hours your team will spend managing each collaboration. Do not count an included cost twice.
Social Cat has the stronger documented brand license
Social Cat’s Terms give the brand broad commercial use of the delivered asset while the influencer keeps copyright. The license expressly covers editing, derivative works, and paid advertising from the brand’s channels. That is a real strength for a restaurant that wants to turn a finished post into website, email, in-store, or restaurant-account ad material.
That license still does not let the restaurant assume it can run an ad from the influencer’s account. Social Cat treats whitelisting as a separate permission and advertises it for managed service; the reviewed self-service pages do not say it is included there.
Remy makes the same distinction. A commercial-use license can cover advertising from the restaurant’s account, while an ad that runs from the influencer’s account needs that person’s separate account permission. Remy’s optional bonus is triggered only by actual paid-ad use under the written terms; choosing a video or planning an ad does not trigger it, and paying the bonus does not create account permission.
Files are another separate question. Social Cat documents downloading delivered finished content but does not require raw footage in the reviewed documents. Remy’s process includes collecting raw footage, yet the restaurant should still name every required file, format, deadline, and permitted use in writing.
Social Cat’s public reporting pages give two different answers
Social Cat currently advertises impressions, reach, engagement, and an ROI figure per influencer. An older public help page says the platform does not provide post-collaboration insights, while its Terms describe AI-generated ROI estimates as illustrative and not guaranteed. The useful buying question is not which sentence sounds better; it is which current data source, event, and formula your account will actually receive.
Ask Social Cat to show whether its current report uses influencer-supplied metrics, platform-authorized data, a code or link, online-store sales events, or another source. Its reviewed public pages do not document a restaurant POS match, a verified in-person visit, a paid non-voided settled check, or a causal test. Do not turn its advertised ROI into proven restaurant profit.
Remy tracks applications, bookings, visits, follow-up, and file delivery. If the restaurant also uses the broader Feast platform, it can connect marketing to POS sales. Keep those two jobs distinct: Remy manages the influencer program, while Feast handles the broader sales-attribution work.
Social Cat’s cancellation pages conflict, so export before you cancel
Social Cat’s help center says a canceled user keeps the Inbox and Content Library and can download prior content. Its newer Terms say historical campaigns, matched influencers, and message history require an active subscription and that data may be deleted after cancellation. Those two public answers cannot both describe every case, so save the files you are entitled to and get the applicable rule in writing before you subscribe.
Also ask what you may export: influencer contact details, agreements, messages, campaign history, finished assets, and any reporting data. Social Cat’s Terms require matched-collaboration communication to stay on the platform and prohibit taking a collaboration off-platform to avoid fees; its reviewed documents do not explain a contact or relationship-record export. That is not proof that export is unavailable. It is a contract question.
Remy is designed to help the restaurant build direct influencer relationships rather than meter each introduction. That supports repeat work without another per-influencer software fee, but it does not answer every cancellation question. Get the contact, history, file, license, and software-access terms in writing before relying on any of them.
Choose Social Cat for a broad marketplace; choose Remy for restaurant visits
Choose Social Cat when the lower entry subscription matters, your team wants both inbound applications and active search, and you are prepared to confirm and manage however the current agreement assigns restaurant-specific visit logistics. Its broad brand license, public prices, contracts, and finished-content library are meaningful strengths.
Choose Remy when the recurring pain is not finding profiles but getting local food influencers from application through booking, reminder, visit, and every promised file. You still approve the people and judge the work; the software takes over the repeated coordination.
Remy is $300 a month per location: $150 for Remy and $150 for creator recruitment ad spend. Learn more about Remy.