Built for restaurants, cafés & hospitality groups

Create branded gift cards your guests actually want to give.

Emberly turns your restaurant's gift cards into a loyalty and revenue engine — custom physical and digital cards, effortless ordering, and fulfillment handled for you.

Restaurants served
2,400+
Restaurants served
Design to delivery
5–7 days
Design to delivery
Avg. spend per card*
$72
Avg. spend per card*

Get your restaurant gift card options

Receive personalized gift card options designed for your restaurant — pricing, design samples, and a launch plan.

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The modern gift card experience

Your gift cards should feel like your restaurant — not an afterthought.

The old way

GIFT CARD

Generic template #4

  • ✕Generic designs that dilute your brand
  • ✕Manual ordering, email chains, and reorders
  • ✕No visibility into what's working

The Emberly way

  • ✓Beautiful cards designed around your brand
  • ✓One simple order flow — design, approve, delivered
  • ✓A guest experience worth gifting again

Designed for your brand

A design studio for restaurant gifting

Every card starts with your identity — your name, your palette, your story. Preview a direction below.

Card style

  • Custom artwork & logo placement
  • Premium matte, gloss & soft-touch finishes
  • Branded carriers, envelopes & display stands
  • Matching digital gift card experience

How it works

From idea to in-hand in four steps

  1. 01

    Choose your gift card style

    Pick from physical, digital, or both. Select finishes, formats, and quantities that fit your restaurant.

  2. 02

    Customize your branding

    Our design team shapes your cards around your logo, colors, and identity — with unlimited revisions.

  3. 03

    Approve your order

    Review proofs, confirm quantities, and approve in one click. Production begins the same day.

  4. 04

    Start creating loyal guests

    Cards arrive ready to sell. Every card gifted becomes a new guest walking through your door.

Why restaurants choose Emberly

More than a card. A guest experience.

Brand experience

Gift cards guests are proud to give — and excited to receive.

Premium stock, refined finishes, and design that carries the warmth of your dining room into every gift.

Customer loyalty

Turn one visit into many

Guests redeeming gift cards return 2× more often — and bring friends with them.

Revenue growth

Capture spend before the visit

Gift cards are revenue today and overspend tomorrow — guests spend beyond card value on average.

Simplicity

Ordering, without the ordeal

One flow for design, proofs, reorders, and multi-location rollouts. No email chains.

Professional design

A studio behind every card

Dedicated designers make every card feel like an extension of your brand — not a template.

Gift cards as a revenue strategy

Not just a card rack by the register.

A well-run gift card program is a marketing channel, a loyalty engine, a customer acquisition tool, and your strongest holiday revenue driver — all at once.

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Average spend per gift card redemption visit

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Of gift card recipients are new guests to the restaurant

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Average overspend beyond the card's face value

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Higher return-visit rate among gift card redeemers

*Based on aggregate hospitality gift card industry benchmarks.

Revenue opportunity calculator

Estimate what a gift card program could add to your bottom line.

1,200
$50
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Estimated annual opportunity

$59,616

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For every kind of restaurant

This works for businesses like yours

Fine dining restaurant using a branded gift card program

Fine dining

Elevated gifting for special occasions

Soft-touch black cards with foil accents, presented in branded envelopes.

Cafés & bakeries restaurant using a branded gift card program

Cafés & bakeries

Everyday gifts regulars love to share

Warm, playful designs with counter displays that sell themselves.

Bars & lounges restaurant using a branded gift card program

Bars & lounges

A night out, ready to gift

Moody, premium cards that match the energy of your space.

Fast casual & multi-location restaurant using a branded gift card program

Fast casual & multi-location

One program, every location

Consistent branding and centralized ordering across your whole group.

From the people who run restaurants

Trusted behind the pass

3.1× holiday gift card sales
“We sold more gift cards in one December than the entire previous year. The cards are beautiful — guests buy two or three at a time just to have extras.”

Marisol Vega

Owner, Casa Brava · 2 locations

5-day turnaround
“The ordering process was the easiest vendor experience we've had. Design proofs in two days, cards in hand within a week — and reorders take about ninety seconds.”

Daniel Okafor

Operations Director, Harvest Group · 11 locations

Guests share their cards
“Our old cards looked like everyone else's. Now they feel like part of the restaurant. People post them. That's marketing we didn't have to pay for.”

Claire Fontaine

GM, Maison Lumière

Questions

Everything owners ask us

Most programs go from first conversation to cards-in-hand in 5–7 business days. Design proofs are typically ready within 48 hours, and production begins the same day you approve.

Completely. Every card is designed around your brand — logo, colors, artwork, and finish. Our design team provides proofs and unlimited revisions until it feels right.

Yes. We offer physical cards, digital gift cards, or a combined program with a matching branded experience across both — so guests can gift instantly online or in person.

Programs start at 100 cards and scale to tens of thousands for multi-location groups. Reordering takes about a minute — your designs and specs are saved.

We handle printing, quality control, packaging, and shipping. Cards arrive activated-ready with carriers, envelopes, and optional counter displays so you can start selling day one.

Yes — that's one of our strengths. Centralized ordering with per-location shipping, consistent branding across every storefront, and consolidated invoicing for your group.

Give your guests a gift they remember.

Launch a gift card program built around your brand — designed, produced, and delivered without the hassle.

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