A new vision for creative services & brand communications

Prior to launching as an independent company in 2019, Carbonate was a division of af&co.

af&co. is a San Francisco-based hospitality marketing and media relations agency. Over the past 17 years, the boutique agency has developed and launched over 100 restaurants and hotels and provided ongoing marketing, public relations, and operations consulting for over 200 others. The team has created unique culinary events of all sizes from intimate dinners to food and wine festivals drawing over 10,000 people. In 2019, Andrew Freeman & Candace MacDonald launched Carbonate to expand services from coast-to-coast with the same dedication to creative thinking and revenue-generating results.

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