Restaurant Exit Plan: How to obtain the Maximum Valuation

Book excerpt: Preparing for a restaurant exit often takes significant amounts of planning and implementation. This may involve getting the ball rolling over a period of years in order to obtain the Maximum Monetary Valuation. Making your restaurant much more valuable to a potential buyer is often as easy as implementing a few basic changes to your business processes and systems. This will ensure that you are always prepared when the right opportunity comes along. What is very important is that you are able to understand, demonstrate and communicate about your restaurant in terms of accounts and financial information. Restaurant Exit Plan focuses on increases in financial transparency, efficiency, revenue, profitability and identifies desired decreases in risk as well as costs. The objective is to understand how to help potential buyers by making it easy for them to enter as you comfortably exit.