# We Sell Restaurants

Restaurants only, in most of the country.

A restaurant-only brokerage network operating in forty-five states, with independently owned and operated offices and its own Certified Restaurant Broker credential.

- Category: Business Brokers & M&A Advisors
- Pricing model: Custom Pricing
- Where it fits: Define & Test Your Thesis, Source & Screen Deals
- Website: https://www.wesellrestaurants.com

## 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.

- 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.

## What It Costs

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

## Pros and Cons

- Pro: The only single-trade network on this shelf, in a trade [searchers](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/searcher) actually buy
- Pro: Publishes a franchisee earnings disclosure with real per-transaction figures, which says more about deal economics than most fee pages do
- Pro: Publishes a dated company timeline, so the founding and franchising years are verifiable from its own pages
- Con: Publishes the industry's fee range and not its own, on the page that asks the cost question
- Con: No states enumerated and no deal size band, so there is little to sort on
- Con: 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.

## Sources

- https://www.wesellrestaurants.com
- https://www.wesellrestaurants.com/franchise/our-story
- https://blog.wesellrestaurants.com/what-does-it-cost-to-sell-your-restaurant

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Last checked: 2026-09-19

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