PUBLISHED ARTICLES

Tax Ideas for Real Estate and Business Sales

The Monitor’s focus on real estate this month gives me the opportunity to discuss two tax items: allocation of purchase price and like-kind exchanges. These are sometimes overlooked in real estate transactions even though…

Two Key Franchise Issues: Development Rights and Capital Expenditures

When you review the Top 200 list [Restaurant Finance Monitor‘s annual list of 200 top franchisees], you realize the big influence franchisees have on their franchise systems. Nonetheless, there’s always some tension between franchisor…

Revisiting the Convenience of Community Banks

Recently I spoke at a conference to lawyers on the current status of community banking, and it got me thinking about how much things have changed on that front for the restaurant industry. The…

Dennis Monroe Reviews Salt Cellar Restaurant from Business Perspective

In his monthly Foodservice News column, Dennis Monroe offers a review of St. Paul’s Salt Cellar restaurant. Once again, the review focuses not on the cuisine but on the restaurant’s overall business proposition, assessed…

Dennis Monroe Reviews Third Bird in Foodservice News

The April 2015 issue of Foodservice News features the second in the series of Dennis Monroe’s monthly review columns in which he evaluates new Twin Cities restaurants on the basis of their business proposition…

Insurance Crafted for Brewing: Specialized Types of Coverage for Brewery Operations

Our guest contributor Marc Cohen is a risk consultant with the Property & Casualty department at Bearence Management Group. All businesses follow the same general principles of insurance, and some of those businesses will…

Three Key Steps in Raising Capital to Fund Breweries

In our December 2014 newsletter, we outlined the various securities laws considerations for breweries and taprooms looking to raise money through a private placement offering. Now we turn our attention to the mechanics…

Be Careful What You Broadcast!

With the historic Mayweather-Pacquiao fight just days away, we thought it would be timely to remind our brewpub and taproom clients and friends to make sure they have the proper commercial licenses and…

A New Look at Labor Savings

Much has been written about the pressure on restaurants to contain its labor costs so as to counter the potential impact of the Affordable Health Care Act and the increase in minimum wages in…

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