International consulting firm McKinsey and Company, took the Twin City restaurant community under its wing and provided a study of the current state of the local industry, both pre-pandemic and post-pandemic. Here are some…
We have gone through the first round of financing assistance from the government and we are now embarking on the second. In the intervening period, there have been a number of grants and other…
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…
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…
Monroe Moxness Berg will present a panel discussion “Sustaining Restaurants Through New Collaborative Relationships” at the Restaurant Finance Week, a digital forum taking place November 9-13 and organized by Restaurant Finance Monitor. The panel…
In an October 10 StarTribune article surveying the challenging business prospects for Twin Cities restaurants, Dennis Monroe comments on the Minneapolis Downtown Restaurant Group, a group he organized to improve the environment for restaurant…
