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Video for restaurants and food brands

ZerezoFilms produces food and restaurant video from Mexico City: dish detail, product, in-store atmosphere and social content. This reel collects sector work, including films produced for Starbucks, Johnny Rockets and VIPS. Production combines food styling, tabletop and commercial-grade post.

What is in this reel

Dish in macro, drinks with their texture, service and in-store atmosphere, and the short pieces that feed a social calendar. It includes work produced for Starbucks, Johnny Rockets and VIPS. This is a vertical where two registers live side by side and are shot differently: the product, which sells through desire, and the place, which sells through belonging.

What makes filming food different

Food looks good for minutes, not hours. Ice cream collapses, lettuce wilts, the foam on a coffee drops and meat loses its sheen as soon as it cools. That inverts the order of a normal shoot: you light and rehearse on a stand-in first, and the hero dish walks onto set once everything else is solved and the camera is already rolling.

Which is why food styling is not decoration, it is part of the technical crew. The person plating knows what holds up under light and what does not, and works several versions of the same dish in parallel. The client's kitchen rarely works as a set either: you need room for camera, lighting and a separate work table, plus access to the real kitchen for resets.

The other register, the location one, has its own constraint: it is shot with the place closed or in dead hours, with talent who read as customers rather than models, and with care that uniforms, signage and the on-screen menu are current. An out-of-date menu forces the piece to be redone months later.

What we produce for the sector

  • 01Product and dish: tabletop and macro for campaign, menu and point of sale.
  • 02Atmosphere and experience: location, service and consumption, with talent on site.
  • 03Digital content: vertical pieces for social and delivery apps, out of a single shoot day.
  • 04Seasonal launch: the hero film and its versions per channel.

Volume usually decides the production in this vertical: one well-planned day feeds weeks of posts. How it is quoted and what it includes is on the digital content page.

Frequently asked questions

Who prepares the food during the shoot?

A food stylist working alongside the crew, usually with the client's kitchen supporting resets. It is not decoration: this is the person who knows which dish survives under light, prepares several versions in parallel and decides when the hero goes on set. Shooting food without that role is what produces footage you cannot use.

Can you film inside a restaurant that is open?

Yes, normally with the place closed or during low-traffic hours. A shoot needs room for camera and lighting that does not coexist with service, and the sound of a full dining room is rarely usable. The window is agreed with the store manager during pre-production.

How many pieces come out of one food shoot day?

It depends on the number of dishes and the formats agreed, and it is defined in the shot list before shooting rather than at the end. In this vertical the goal is usually volume: one well-planned day covers the hero film plus the vertical cutdowns that feed social and delivery apps for weeks.

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