In this time of total uncertainty and still no answer as to when Covid will end and when restaurants will go back to full strength, restaurant owners need to know what their legal options…
Dennis Monroe is quoted in the January 9 article “4 Post-Pandemic Lessons from the Great Recession” on QSR magazine’s website. The article considers the ways in which the pandemic is likely to reshape the…
Something evident from the recent Restaurant Finance Week was the great number of new ideas and serious discussions on what post-Covid restaurant concepts will look like. I would like to draw on some of…
One of the the things that has occurred during the pandemic is that we have had to look at new delivery systems and new approaches to making money in restaurants. An idea I have…
At this point it is no secret that the Covid-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on the commercial real estate market in general and restaurants in particular. During the summer and fall of…
The list of what we’ve learned over the last six months in terms of best practices for restaurant operators could be 20 to 30 items, but here are a few key ones: 1. Landlord…
If it wasn’t enough to continue dealing with COVID, now the foodservice industry has additional challenges of uncertainty and disturbances in downtown Minneapolis and other retail areas. Here are some ideas on how to…
Dennis Monroe is quoted in the recent Restaurant Business online article “As Financing Dries Up, Companies Turn to Crowdfunding.” The article suggests that as traditional funding sources like banks and large investors are pulling…
It’s never easy to raise money in the restaurant industry. Yes, there’s been a window for a number of years where we’ve seen private equity, both funds and individuals, investing in promising deals. This…
