The restaurant community has recently embraced a unique tool to secure additional capital for restaurant development. Restaurant owners who have proven concepts and need to develop are taking advantage of the EB-5 Program, also…
by Dennis Monroe from Restaurant Finance Monitor, August 16, 2013 Download article One of the big issues for restaurants trying to secure financing is the problem of having negative equity on the balance sheet….
Access to financing for new restaurant ventures may be easing after the freeze that followed the Great Recession; but, as Dennis Monroe tells QSR magazine, lenders remain risk-averse. “If you’re an established operator, it’s…
Dennis Monroe‘s comments on the advantages of sale-leasebacks and private placements as funding options for early-unit franchisees appear in the article “How to Help Small Franchisees Get Financed” in the May issue of Restaurant…
The number of outside investors teaming up with good operators to buy into franchise systems is proliferating of late. In particular, private equity has served as the funding for consolidation of franchisee units and…
In the last several years we have seen a proliferation of private equity investment in the restaurant sector. Many of today’s leading restaurant chains started out with significant private investment. This private investment was…
