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title: Creating Food Posts for Facebook and Instagram
description: Easily promote your menu items on social media! Enable specific dishes so SpotHopper can create engaging, automatic posts that keep your restaurant top of mind.
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# Creating Food Posts for Facebook and Instagram

## Easily promote your menu items on social media! Enable specific dishes so SpotHopper can create engaging, automatic posts that keep your restaurant top of mind.

### Contents:

1. **[Selecting Menu Items for Social Media Posts](https://howto.spothopperapp.com/knowledge/creating-food-posts#selecting_menu_items)**<https://howto.spothopperapp.com/knowledge/creating-food-posts#frequency>
2. [**How to Recognize Food Menu Posts**](https://howto.spothopperapp.com/knowledge/creating-food-posts#filter)

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### Selecting Menu Items for Social Media Posts

1\. Navigate to the **"Menu"** page under **"Menu & Content."**

**![](https://howto.spothopperapp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202024-09-04%20193722-png-1.png?width=244&height=252&name=Screenshot%202024-09-04%20193722-png-1.png)**

2.Find the menu item you want to promote, attach at least one photo, and click **"Promote Item."**

![](https://howto.spothopperapp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/annotely_image%20(52)-png.png?width=670&height=90&name=annotely_image%20(52)-png.png)

*More attached images = more post variety. When only one image is available, the system will repeat it for every generated post of that menu item.*

3\. On the **"Promote Menu Item,"**   pop-up, check the FB and IG boxes if you want the platform to start generating Facebook and Instagram posts of the menu item.

![](https://howto.spothopperapp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/annotely_image%20(53)-png.png?width=651&height=391&name=annotely_image%20(53)-png.png)

4\. Once checked, you should see the Facebook and Instagram icons below the menu item name.

![](https://howto.spothopperapp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202025-11-03%20154320-png.png?width=273&height=98&name=Screenshot%202025-11-03%20154320-png.png)

Checking the Facebook and Instagram boxes **doesn’t create posts instantly**. Instead, it **adds the menu item to the automatic posting rotation**, allowing the **platform to include it in future social media post generation.**

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### How to Recognize Food Menu Posts

Posts generated from your menu page are clearly marked for easy identification. Just check the label above the post; it should read *"Created using settings & content on your Menu Page."* 

![](https://howto.spothopperapp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/annotely_image%20(57)-png.png?width=348&height=590&name=annotely_image%20(57)-png.png)

To see all *menu item posts* generated at a given time:![](https://howto.spothopperapp.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Nov-03-2025-04-12-33-0151-PM.png?width=148&height=207&name=image-png-Nov-03-2025-04-12-33-0151-PM.png)

1. Go to your **Instagram Posts** or **Facebook Posts** page under **Settings**.
2. Click the **Filters** button in the upper-right corner.
3. Turn off all other sections, leaving only the **Food** category enabled.

This will display all of the already-generated automatic menu item posts.

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