Knife Shift Merch Market: Your New Hub for Restaurant Merch
Restaurants are full of passionate people on both sides of the service counter. Us foodies make excellent fans. When we eat at the best taco joint in town we show just as much enthusiasm as concert goers cheering an encore or sports buffs celebrating a winning goal.
As big Fans of Food ourselves, we built the Knife Shift Merch Market to provide an ecommerce merchandise platform created by culinary nerds for culinary nerds.
Empowering Food Businesses
Our new marketplace platform was developed with one focus in mind:
Make it easy for food businesses to get brand merch to fans who want to support them.
Delivery apps or online gourmet food retailers sometimes permit merch to be sold alongside dishes, meal kits, or packaged food offerings. However, your branded apparel and accessories get lost in the mix and don’t sell as well as they could because they’re simply not what the customer came to that site to buy.
When you’re hungry and ordering dinner on a tiny screen, you’re probably not going to buy a hat based on the small Uber Eats description and thumbnail pic—no matter how dope it looks.
Our answer is to offer a very specific location where your restaurant or food business can highlight its creative designs, history, and stories through the thoughtful brand products you’ve developed. We make it simple to set up a personalized store profile, list merch for free, and show what makes your business unique.
If you’re looking to sell merch online, build alternative revenue channels, and give your fans what they want without getting lost in the noise, then sign-up today.
Who We’re For: An Inclusive Foodie Community
While we designed our platform with restaurants in mind, our goal is to be the go-to marketplace where foodies can shop for brand merch. So, that stretches much more broadly to businesses across the food-system.
Farms, specialty food sellers like cheesemongers and butchers, knife sharpeners, independent grocers, distributors, suppliers, breweries, wineries and more are all very welcome to join.
That means customers may stumble upon a t-shirt from their favorite bistro, a hand-carved charcuterie board from the neighborhood butcher, and a tote bag from the farm stand they frequent…all just by filtering by city to see what’s happening in their area.
Focused on Food Business Brand Merch
Our main focus is on apparel, accessories, artwork, collectibles, and other branded products with fashion or design elements to them.
We feel these products tell a story. We like that when a food fan puts on a t-shirt from the cocktail bar they’re a regular at or when they look at the piece of artwork from the local café hanging in their kitchen, that it brings some good memories and happiness.
That’s what our business is about.
We’re also about creating new memories, so we can help with that side of your business, too. If you’re an independent chef looking to make new bookings or your restaurant is having a special event, then we can assist with listing digital products, too.
At this time, we don’t list food or grocery type products. We’re simply not a food retailer, and there are other marketplace businesses like Gold Belly and independent grocers who do this well and who you can absolutely work with to distribute your food items. In certain limited cases, we may still help promote dry/shelf-stable food products if there’s a fit.
Here to Support You Every Step of the Way
We understand that preparing great food and providing excellent hospitality are the core of your business. That’s why fans love you, of course. So, we know that offering merch is something that needs to be straightforward and efficient.
Knife Shift is committed to making your set-up and operation on our market as smooth as possible. From creating your profile to listing your restaurant merch, our team is here to help you every step of the way.
This means you can focus on operating your food business while we take care of getting your merchandising channel up and running in no time.
Amplify Your Food Brand’s Visibility
In addition to providing a dedicated support platform, we’re excited to help promote your business across our website and on social media. Vendors can opt in to be featured in our blog posts and social media shoutouts, giving their brand extra visibility and a stronger online presence. It’s all part of our commitment to help you shine in a crowded digital marketplace.
An Exclusive Launch Offer Just for You
To kick off the launch of the Knife Shift Merch Market, we’re offering something special: the first 30 businesses to sign up and list a product will have our standard 10% commission fee waived forever. It’s our way of saying thank you for trusting us with your brand and giving us the opportunity to help grow your ecommerce presence.
Join the Knife Shift Merch Market Today
If you’re ready to expand your brand’s reach and connect with true food fans, there’s never been a better time to join. Jump in today and let us help you share your quality restaurant merch and food business merch with the world.