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Sell a Restaurant, Bar
or Liquor Store
John and Justin Kelly represent owners of restaurants, bars, taverns and liquor stores in South Jersey, with the building and the liquor license steps that come with them.
Step by Step
How the sale
works
Pricing the Business
A restaurant or bar is priced from what it earns for the owner, equipment, the lease or the building, and what similar businesses have sold for.
Quiet Marketing
Qualified buyers sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) before they see the name or the numbers. Staff, regulars and suppliers are not told.
License and Lease
If there is a liquor license, a transfer needs approval from the municipality, and the lease or building purchase moves in step with it. Your attorney handles the legal side.
Closing
The business, the license and the building or lease line up for one closing, coordinated with your attorney.
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What a Restaurant or Bar
Sale Involves
Services
Selling a Restaurant or Bar in South Jersey
Valuation Opinion
An opinion of what the business could sell for, based on earnings, equipment, location and sales of similar businesses.
Confidential Marketing
Buyers who qualify and sign an NDA see the business. Your staff and customers hear about it from you.
Building or Lease Plan
We sell the building with the business, or set up a lease for the buyer, and we work through passing the lease to the buyer with the landlord.
Buyer Search
We also represent buyers looking for a restaurant, bar or liquor store, with or without the building.
Records and Paperwork
Your accountant and attorney review the financials, equipment list, lease and license. We coordinate it.
Liquor License Timing
We plan the closing date around the municipal approval so the sale, the building or lease and the license line up.
Building, Lease and Liquor License
Who owns the space shapes how a restaurant or bar is sold. An owner of the building can sell it with the business, or keep it and rent it to the buyer. A tenant sells the business with its lease. The landlord usually has to agree to the buyer taking over, and the years left on the lease come with it.
If the sale includes a liquor license, the transfer to the buyer usually needs approval from the town that issued it. We plan the closing date around that approval, and the transfer itself goes through your attorney.
John and Justin handle the real estate side of the sale. Your attorney and accountant handle the legal and financial side, and we coordinate with them.
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Counties We
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Types We Sell
Common Questions
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FAQs
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