Founder & CEO · Schaefer

Sidnee Schaefer

Sidnee founded Schaefer on a simple observation: most food brands are guessing about what actually drives demand. She spent years inside startups, Fortune 500s, and agencies before building Schaefer as a senior-level partner firm working exclusively in food and beverage. Her deepest work lives in DTC food brands — where the full acquisition-to-retention loop is visible in the data — and in multi-location brands, where driving consistent traffic across dozens or hundreds of doors requires a fundamentally different playbook than single-door retail.

LinkedIn Meet the full team →
Sidnee Schaefer
F&B
Exclusively — no other categories
7
Perspectives authored
100%
Of client ad work led personally
What Sidnee Does

Senior-level advertising leadership across every client account.

Sidnee leads Schaefer's advertising work directly. Not in a delegating-to-junior-staff sense — she is personally involved in the strategy, creative direction, and campaign decisions across every client engagement.

She built Schaefer around a belief that food and beverage brands have been underserved by generalist agencies that move on once the case study is written. Category expertise compounds. The longer you stay in F&B, the better your instincts get. Schaefer was built to stay.

Her two deepest areas of expertise are DTC food brands — where she works the full funnel from cold acquisition through retention and repeat purchase — and multi-location brands, where she's developed a specific playbook for driving consistent same-location traffic at scale across markets with different competitive dynamics and audience profiles.

01
Client advertising leadership
Personally leading paid media strategy, creative decisions, and campaign execution across every Schaefer client engagement.
02
Agency growth and direction
Setting the strategic direction for Schaefer — which clients to take on, what the guarantee covers, how the agency evolves.
03
DTC food and beverage
Full-funnel paid media for direct-to-consumer F&B brands — cold acquisition, mid-funnel conversion, post-purchase retention, and repeat purchase optimization.
04
Multi-location marketing
Driving consistent same-location traffic across dozens or hundreds of doors — geo-targeted creative, market-level audience strategy, and cross-location performance analysis.
Published Perspectives

Real brand moves, examined through buyer psychology.

Each Perspective takes a real brand story and examines what actually drove the outcome — the demand model, the loyalty mechanism, the strategic discipline (or lack of it). F&B across categories and channels.

Grocery · Partnerships
OLIPOP × Goodwipes: The Smartest Partnership Play of the Year
Read the perspective →
Restaurant · Industry Analysis
QSR Industry Deep Dive 2025–2026
Read the perspective →
Restaurant · Buyer Psychology
What In-N-Out Teaches Us About Buyer Psychology
Read the perspective →
Restaurant · Competitive Analysis
Brand Reality Check: Crumbl vs. In-N-Out
Read the perspective →
Restaurant · Brand Strategy
In-N-Out Is Doing to Fast Food What Apple Did to Smartphones
Read the perspective →
Restaurant · Demand Strategy
Raising Cane's Is Doing to Chicken What Netflix Did to Entertainment
Read the perspective →
Grocery · Brand Growth
Grüns Built a $100M Greens Brand by Selling the Fantasy, Not the Function
Read the perspective →
Grocery · Competitive Analysis
Liquid Death vs LaCroix: Same Shelf. Opposite Playbooks.
Read the perspective →
Founding Conviction

"Most food brands are guessing about what drives demand. We built Schaefer to stop the guessing — with research first, media second, and a guarantee that puts our fees on the line if we're wrong."

— Sidnee Schaefer, Founder & CEO
Work With Schaefer

F&B paid media, done by people who know the category.

Sidnee leads every client engagement. You're talking directly to the person who's running your campaigns.

Tell Us About Your Brand →
See our results first →