Financing
Avoiding rent rip-offs
At a time when the country is seeing established, successful concepts close or relocate because of rapidly escalating rents, operators are focusing on other ways to make a lease still work for them.
Win the real estate game
Want to beat the big guys in this game? You’d better find the right corner—or in-line or end-cap. “Of all the decisions a new restaurant owner will...
Until the spring of 2008, the lunch crowd at Stockton’s Pub and Grill, a full-service restaurant in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, was thick with professionals from nearby real estate, law and accounting offices. But as the nation settled into a recession, the lunch crowd begin to thin out, and owner Doug Stockton noticed that customers in business attire became especially scarce.