Restaurant ownership is broken.
For everyone.
The restaurant industry generates over $1 trillion annually in the U.S. — and yet both sides of the table are stuck. Operators can't access fair capital. Investors can't access the deals. RestaurantShares changes both.
Capital is the wall between a great concept and a great business.
You've built something real. Loyal customers. Consistent revenue. Proven food. But when it's time to grow, renovate, or weather a slow season — the options are brutal.
Restaurant loans require collateral most operators don't have, personal guarantees, and a process that takes months — by which time the lease is gone.
Daily ACH pulls that drain your cash flow before you can invest in the business. Many operators take these deals out of desperation — and spend two years digging out.
If you're lucky enough to attract a PE partner, they'll want a board seat, veto rights, and an exit timeline that doesn't fit how you run a restaurant.
Public restaurant companies trade at 20–40× EBITDA. Your restaurant — same revenue, same margins, same loyal customers — trades at 4–6× because there's no liquidity. We're here to fix that.
You've always wanted in. The door was never open.
Everyone knows a restaurant they believe in. A spot they've been going to for years. An operator they'd bet on. But investing in it? Until now, that required one of two things — neither of which was accessible to most people.
Private restaurant deals historically required $50K–$500K minimum investments — limited to the owner's personal network. No transparency. No formal offering documents. No secondary market to exit.
Even accredited investors rarely had access to restaurant deals unless personally connected. There was no marketplace, no due diligence, no standardized structure — word of mouth or nothing.
Even if you got into a deal, there was no secondary market. No way to exit. Your capital was tied up indefinitely — until a sale, or a closure. Most investors said no for this reason alone.
If you didn't meet the $200K income or $1M net worth threshold, private restaurant investment simply wasn't available to you — no matter how well you knew the operator.
"The best restaurant investments in America are sitting right in front of everyday investors. They just need a regulated, transparent way to access them."
— David Lee, Founder · RestaurantShares & Netshares Financial Services, LLC (CRD #307532)