How do I sell a chicken restaurant?
To sell a chicken restaurant, reconcile your chicken purchases to your sales so a buyer can follow the numbers, write down the recipe, breading and sauce methods, list suppliers and delivery-app accounts, service the equipment, and plan a handover period. Buyers trust a shop whose records and kitchen both hold up to questions.
Buyers of chicken shops may ask a few common things. Does the cost of chicken match what was sold? Will the recipe stay? Does the equipment work? Will the delivery orders keep coming? You can answer all four before anyone asks, and doing so shortens the conversation. Begin months ahead of listing, because tidy records take time to build.
Match purchases to sales
Gather supplier invoices and compare them with sales across the same periods. Where the two drift apart, be ready to explain why, whether it is waste, a menu change or a staff meal. A buyer who finds an unexplained gap will start to doubt the rest. Your accountant can help you prepare a clean set of statements.
Recipes, breading and sauces
If the recipes live in your head, write them down. Decide what you will hand over and what, if anything, you will keep, and put it in the agreement. Ask your lawyer how to handle the breading blend and sauce suppliers, especially if a supplier mixes a product only for you. Our page on keeping your recipes after a sale covers that question.
Delivery-app accounts and equipment
Check how your delivery-app accounts, ratings and listings can move to a buyer, and ask each platform what it requires. Service the fryers, ovens and cooler, and gather the records, since condition is something a buyer will inspect. Fix small problems before showings so they do not become reasons to negotiate.
Handover
Offer to train the buyer and introduce suppliers and key staff. See how to prepare a restaurant for handover to the buyer.
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Sources
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- 01Business Development Bank of CanadaGovernmentHow to minimize negotiations when selling your business
- 02Restaurants CanadaIndustryRestaurants Canada - The Voice of Foodservice
- 03Business Development Bank of CanadaGovernmentHow to conduct due diligence when buying a business
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