Is it time for a Restaurant Upgrade?

I know. I feel your pain. The mere thought of an upgrade, whether remodeling a home or renovating a restaurant, can send shivers down the spine. And, while we’d like to think of this feeling as the excitement derived from anticipation, all too often it comes from uncertainty and a slight sense of dread.  But… Continue reading Is it time for a Restaurant Upgrade?

Landlords Embrace Transformational Restaurant Entertainment Concepts

The world of real estate is witnessing a paradigm shift as landlords seek creative ways to attract tenants and visitors to their properties. Beyond the traditional shopping and dining offerings, a new trend has emerged: integrating transformational entertainment concepts. These immersive and experiential concepts transform commercial spaces into dynamic destinations catering to consumers of all… Continue reading Landlords Embrace Transformational Restaurant Entertainment Concepts

Expanding? Neighborhood Data Helps Select the Right Real Estate

In our conversations with restaurant operators, we often hear exasperation when it comes to available restaurant data and harnessing it for actionable insights. They know their restaurants make enormous amounts of data, otherwise known as big data, but how do they optimize it to make critical decisions, like where to open their next unit, reducing… Continue reading Expanding? Neighborhood Data Helps Select the Right Real Estate

Adam Breeden on Creating the Ultimate Social Entertainment Venues

For many restaurants, millennials make up almost one-third of their revenue. This generation chooses restaurants that can offer “a new experience.” They look for experience-based environments, like live entertainment, game night, unique ambiance, and unusual food.  They’re looking for the ultimate social entertainment venue. Adam Breeden, the creator of some of the top social entertainment… Continue reading Adam Breeden on Creating the Ultimate Social Entertainment Venues

Restaurant Real Estate Opportunities Emerging from COVID-19

While no one, or at least most no one, wants to feel like they are taking advantage of a bad situation, the truth is that some people and businesses will emerge better off post-COVID-19 than before the pandemic left a wasteland for many of us. In fact, some incredibly successful companies began during recessions when… Continue reading Restaurant Real Estate Opportunities Emerging from COVID-19

REITs Q1 Results

Among a litany of now-familiar pandemic-adjacent phrases, concepts, and behaviors to which we’d seldom, if ever, consciously paid, we have the lagging indicator. In the simplest of terms, the term refers to trend indicators that are observable and apparent well before their impact is reflected in longer-term data. Effectively, it means that today’s data is… Continue reading REITs Q1 Results