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.
- Sells
- Restaurants only, in forty-five states by its own story page, brokering since 2004 and claiming to have sold more than any other firm in the nation. No size band and no sold count are published anywhere; the only figure on the site is a 2007 milestone of a hundred listings.
- Publishes no size band anywhere.
- 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.
- Buyer Fee
- Says nothing about a buyer fee. Its buyer-facing pages say nothing either way about what a buyer pays.
- Works For
- Buyer list only. Invites buyers onto a list to see or be alerted to its own listings. That is access, not advocacy: the firm is still paid by the seller.
- Before It Shows You Anything
- Wants an account rather than an NDA. An account is the real gate rather than a signed document, and the registration form is where the qualifying questions live.
- Registration is the stated gate, and it stands behind the index rather than in front of it. Read in a browser in early September 2026, the listing index renders more than a thousand results with a price point, a town and the headline sales or earnings figure in each title, sortable by earnings. Sign In and Register sit in the navigation and nothing is asked. What registration guards is the listing itself: the cards' links resolve to the firm's sold page in the rendered markup, so no detail page could be opened to say what sits behind it. The numbers are visible and the listings are not, the same shape as Raincatcher. A plain fetch sees none of this.
- 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 main site serves an empty script shell to every automated reader, so nothing on it beyond the blog and franchise pages can be checked from the page source
What Searchers Say
Independence language, timeline and the fee passage read from its own readable pages; its story page counts forty-four states. 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