We Sell Restaurants
At a Glance
The restaurant specialist, on a fee you will have to ask for because the page that asks the question answers it about somebody else.
- Pricing
- Custom Pricing, Publishes the industry's range rather than its own: fees run 'as low as eight percent to as high as fifteen percent seen in the marketplace'. Nothing on its own site states what We Sell Restaurants charges, on a page whose title asks what selling a restaurant costs.
- Best For
- Buyers looking specifically at restaurants, where a generalist broker's listings run thin
- Kind
- Independently run offices under one name, so the broker varies by market.
- Footprint
- Works nationwide.
- Seller Fee
- Publishes somebody else's range. The only percentages on its own site describe the industry or other firms rather than itself, on pages that ask what selling costs, so a number there is easy to read as a disclosure it never made.
- Roadmap Stages
- 2. Define & Test Your Thesis4. Source & Screen Deals
Pros and Cons
Pros
- The only single-trade network on this shelf, in a trade searchers actually buy
- Publishes a franchisee earnings disclosure with real per-transaction figures, which says more about deal economics than most fee pages do
- Publishes a dated company timeline, so the founding and franchising years are verifiable from its own pages
Cons
- Publishes the industry's fee range and not its own, on the page that asks the cost question
- No states enumerated and no deal size band, so there is little to sort on
- Its location pages render only in a browser, so per-market coverage cannot be checked from the page source
What Searchers Say
Independence language, state count, timeline and the fee passage read from its own pages. The fee passage describes discount brokerages and the market generally, never this firm.
How to Approach
We Sell Restaurants is an office network rather than a single firm, and it works for the seller rather than for you, so this is how that side of the table comes in and what it is deciding about you.
The Typical Arc
- You reach one office rather than the brand, and that office runs its own process.
- A teaser and an NDA with the local broker who holds the listing.
- The CIM and the seller meeting, to that office's standard rather than a house one.
- Your offer, through that broker, whose duty runs to the seller.
What It Weighs
- The same three things any listing broker weighs: funds, criteria, and speed.
- Whether you are buying in that office's market, since the listings are local.
- Whether to refer you to a sister office, which is an introduction rather than a handoff.
How to Prepare
- Ask which office holds the listing and who your broker actually is.
- Write the one page a broker asks for before you inquire. Buyer Profile Builder
- Set criteria specific enough for a listing to match. Buy Box Builder