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financing
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10 Ways to Keep Budget in Check
Restaurant design projects are typically derailed for one of two reasons: They’ve gone over budget or they’ve taken too long.
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How to Make a Comeback
Best practices for emerging from bankruptcy.
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How to Find Investors for Your Restaurant
Creating and developing a new restaurant is an exciting time, but one of the biggest hurdles operators need to overcome is finding sufficient financing — and it has to happen early on.
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Private Equity Firm TPG Growth Acquires Taco Bueno
Private equity firm TPG Growth has acquired Taco Bueno, a Tex-Mex quick-serve based in Farmers Branch, Texas.
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Financing’s Winners & Losers: A Q&A with Kevin Burke
Kevin Burke believes restaurant chains that can attract Millennials and Generation X stand the best chance at raising growth capital. And those that cannot — typically because they’ve failed to remain relevant? Well, good luck with that. We caught up with Burke, investment banker and managing partner of Trinity Capital, at this year’s National Restaurant Association trade show in Chicago.
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Seeking Private Equity: Here's How
Small companies are taking a big bite of the PE pie. Here's how.
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Crowdfunding Lets Entrepreneurs Pass the Virtual Hat
Veronica Salazar opened her dream restaurant in Larkspur, Calif., in March of last year with help from La Cocina, a San Francisco-based non-profit. The group, which provides kitchen space and counseling to low-income entrepreneurs, advised Salazar to use crowdfunding to raise a portion of the money she needed to develop El Huarache Loco.
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Credit Starved? Not if You’re Qualified
I'm a loan officer for a regional bank. You are a restaurant operator who wants to re-capitalize his balance sheet. You tell me you're tired of doing patchwork deals to open restaurants. I tell you I like your restaurants. My wife and I always order the walnut-crusted salmon. I also mention you'd make a great bank customer. Your annual cash flow allows us to give you favorable terms. But we have a problem. Did you read the fine print on the loan agreement with your biggest lender? It
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